Professor Predicts Human Time Travel This Century
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With a brilliant idea and equations based on Einstein’s relativity theories, Ronald Mallett from the University of Connecticut has devised an experiment to observe a time traveling neutron in a circulating ...
Jesus Walked on Ice, Study Says
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The New Testament story describes Jesus walking on water in the Sea of Galilee but according to a study led by Florida State University Professor of Oceanography Doron Nof, it's more likely that he walked on ...
Chaos=Order: Physicists make baffling discovery
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"Da police are not here to create disorder; dere here to preserve disorder." -Richard J. Daley, Chicago mayor, explaining to the media the role of the police during the riotous 1968 Democratic National Convention. ...
The Universe trapped in its own web
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Astronomers from the University of Nottingham, UK, and the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (Spain), have found the first observational evidence that galaxies are not randomly oriented. Instead, they are ...
Scientists Develop Switchable Focus Eyeglass Lenses
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Optical scientists have developed eyeglass lenses that switch focus in a blink of an eye. Optical scientists at The University of Arizona have developed new switchable, flat, liquid crystal diffractive lenses ...
Astronomers find alcohol cloud spanning 288 billion miles
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Astronomers based at Jodrell Bank Observatory have discovered a giant bridge of methyl alcohol, spanning approximately 288 billion miles, wrapped around a stellar nursery. The gas cloud could help our understanding ...
Digital revolution takes on movie industry
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With Hollywood's largest studios launching a download-and-own film service via rivals Movielink.com and Cinemanow.com, the move towards digital distribution also means the move toward D-Cinema.
'Picture positive': Lost photos confirm fossil find
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The researcher who discovered Paralititan stromeri, one of the most massive animals ever to walk the Earth, now is "picture-positive" about another dinosaur fossil find by a famous German researcher, Ernst ...
Researchers use nanodots to boost superconductivity
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have demonstrated a way to sustain high supercurrents in wires in the presence of a large applied magnetic field -- a step which could greatly expand practical applications of superconductors. ...
Flying tip of bees: Leave your legs dangling!
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Unlike airplanes, leaving their landing gear down makes bees fly faster. When orchid bees extend their hind-legs they pitch forward to achieve maximal speed, and the legs produce lift forces to either side ...
X-rays reveal 250,000 tonnes of water released by Deep Impact
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Over the weekend of 9-10 July 2005 a team of UK and US scientists, led by Dr. Dick Willingale of the University of Leicester, used NASA’s Swift satellite to observe the collision of NASA’s Deep Impact spacecraft ...
Coal for hydrogen: Experiments examine hydrogen-production benefits of clean coal burning
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Sandia National Laboratories researchers are studying the burning characteristics of coal to prepare the way for the coming of a hydrogen economy. That’s because while there are many long-term options for providing ...
Lab-grown body organs are transplanted
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The first human recipients of laboratory-grown organs have been reported at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, N.C.
Nanoparticles may pose threat to liver cells, say scientists
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Researchers at the University of Edinburgh are to study the effects of nanoparticles on the liver. In a UK first, the scientists will assess whether nanoparticles –already found in pollution from traffic exhaust, but also ...
Samsung Mass Producing 1Gb Flash Memory, using 70-nm Process
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Samsung Electronics announced today that it is now mass producing 70nm 1Gb OneNAND, a widely used memory device that provides higher performance over conventional flash devices.
