Largest 3D Map of Galaxies
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A team of American, Australian and British astronomers has released maps from the largest full-sky, three-dimensional survey of galaxies ever conducted.
Less expensive fuel cell may be possible
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Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a new class of hydrogen fuel-cell catalysts that exhibit promising activity and stability. The catalysts are made of low-cost nonprecious metals entrapped in something ...
New wood-plastic composites to boost industry, help use waste products
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Wood science researchers in the College of Forestry at Oregon State University have developed new wood-plastic composites that are stronger and less expensive than any similar products now available – a major breakthrough ...
Manipulating light with a tiny needle
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Using the tip of an Atomic Force Microscope (AFM), it is possible to map the wave pattern of light, trapped in a so called optical resonator, with unprecedented precision. Apart from that, the AFM is also capable ...
Echo of the Big Bang wins US pair Nobel Prize (Update 4)
Oct 03, 2006 |
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The Nobel Prize in Physics goes to John C. Mather and George F. Smoot "for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation".
Divers to retrieve tires dumped off Fla.
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Plans have been drawn up to retrieve millions of tires that were dumped off the Florida coast in 1972 to make an artificial reef.
Amazing Andromeda Galaxy
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The many "personalities" of our great galactic neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, are exposed in this new composite image from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer and the Spitzer Space Telescope.
Details of solar particles penetrating the Earth's environment revealed
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Co-ordinated efforts by China/ESA's Double Star and ESA's Cluster spacecraft have allowed scientists to zero in on an area where energetic particles from the Sun are blasting their way through the Earth's magnetic ...
Planets Prefer Safe Neighborhoods
Oct 03, 2006 |
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A star must live in a relatively tranquil cosmic neighborhood to foster planet formation, say astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. A team of scientists from the University of Arizona's Steward ...
Uncovering DNA's 'sweet' secret
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DNA's simple and elegant structure - the "twisted ladder," with sugar-phosphate chains making up the "rails" and oxygen- and nitrogen-containing chemical "rungs" tenuously uniting the two halves - seems to be the work of ...
Study Offers New Clues to Brain-Stomach Interaction in Overeating
Oct 03, 2006 |
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Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have found new clues to how the brain and the stomach interact with emotions to cause overeating and obesity. By looking at how ...
Hole in Kentucky will help predict quakes
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 03, 2006 |
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Workers in Kentucky are drilling a 2,000-foot hole that will become the deepest seismic observatory in the Midwest.
Study Finds Chemical in Curry May Help Clear Plaques
Oct 03, 2006 |
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UCLA/VA researchers found that curcumin - a chemical found in curry and turmeric - may help the immune system clear the brain of amyloid beta, which form the plaques found in Alzheimer's disease.
Stephen Hawking tours the future of particle physics at CERN
Oct 03, 2006 |
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Stephen Hawking, Lucasian Professor of Cambridge University and best-selling author of A Brief History of Time, has paid a week long visit to CERN in Geneva – the world's largest centre for particle physics.
Optics tests for early Alzheimer's diagnosis make significant advances
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Providing an update on progress and new findings on his optical tests for the early detection of Alzheimer's disease, Lee Goldstein of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School will describe dramatic new developments ...
