Weird wave behavior may explain why the whirligig walks in circles
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The whirligig beetle is named for its trademark of walking in circles on the surface of water. Upon investigating a new phenomenon of water wave generation, scientists might now understand why.
Magnetic levitation gives computer users sense of touch
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Computers, long used as tools to design and manipulate three-dimensional objects, may soon provide people with a way to sense the texture of those objects or feel how they fit together, thanks to a haptic, or touch-based, ...
Genes hold the key to how happy we are, scientists say
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 04, 2008 |
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Happiness in life is as much down to having the right genetic mix as it is to personal circumstances according to a recent study.
Biologists surprised to find parochial bacterial viruses
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Biologists examining ecosystems similar to those that existed on Earth more than 3 billion years ago have made a surprising discovery: Viruses that infect bacteria are sometimes parochial and unrelated to ...
Merchant Terminals Provide New Method For Stealing Customer's Credit Cards
Mar 04, 2008 |
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UK based Timesonline reports a flurry of credit card fraud in the first half of 2007. Researchers at Cambridge found chip and PIN merchant terminals lack necessary security encryption. The merchant terminal can be programmed ...
Costly placebo works better than cheap one
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A 10-cent pill doesn't kill pain as well as a $2.50 pill, even when they are identical placebos, according to a provocative study by Dan Ariely, a behavioral economist at Duke University.
An accident? Construction work? A bottleneck? No, just too much traffic
Mar 04, 2008 |
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A new study from a Japanese research group explains why we’re occasionally caught in traffic jams for no visible reason. The real origin of traffic jams often has nothing to do with obvious obstructions such as accidents ...
Archeologists Find Ancient Cemetery in Egypt
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
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The El Hibeh tell — a mound of ancient human architecture, artifacts and debris — is so rich with the remnants of human life in central Egypt that shards of pottery literally crunch under a visitor’s feet. ...
Tuberculosis bacterium is double-protected
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The first 3-D images that disclosure a double membrane surrounding mycobacteria were recorded by Martinsried scientists, ending a long scientific debate about the mycobacterial outer membrane and opening new ...
Spring is Aurora Season
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 04, 2008 |
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What are the signs of spring? They are as familiar as a blooming daffodil, a songbird at dawn, a surprising shaft of warmth from the afternoon sun. And, oh yes, don’t forget the aurora borealis. Spring is ...
Study uncovers cause of flu epidemics
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The exchange of genetic material between two closely related strains of the influenza A virus may have caused the 1947 and 1951 human flu epidemics, according to biologists. The findings could help explain why some strains ...
Nuclear cannibals
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Nuclear energy production must increase by more than 10 percent each year from 2010 to 2050 to meet all future energy demands and replace fossil fuels, but this is an unsustainable prospect. According to a report published ...
AMD Launches 780 Chipset
Mar 04, 2008 |
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AMD is announcing the availability of the AMD 780G chipset, designed to deliver the ultimate mainstream computing experience.
Unusual brand logos and images work well
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The world of branding is full of iconic characters, images and logos that help hawk a company's wares, but those that seem to have little in common with its product may be the most effective, says a University of Michigan ...
New potential drug target for the treatment of atherosclerosis
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A nuclear receptor protein, known for controlling the ability of cells to burn fat, also exerts powerful anti-inflammatory effects in arteries, suppressing atherosclerosis in mice prone to developing the harmful ...
