A Physicist's Guide to Texas Hold 'Em
Apr 04, 2007 |
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What are the odds that poker can be explained by statistical physics, much the same as a variety of other complex systems? They’re pretty good, according to physicist Clément Sire of Université of Toulouse ...
Dieting does not work, researchers report
Apr 04, 2007 |
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Will you lose weight and keep it off if you diet? No, probably not, UCLA researchers report in the April issue of American Psychologist, the journal of the American Psychological Association.
Taking nature’s cue for cheaper solar power
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 04, 2007 |
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Solar cell technology developed by the University’s Nanomaterials Research Centre will enable New Zealanders to generate electricity from sunlight at a 10th of the cost of current silicon-based photo-electric ...
3.2 billion-year-old surprise: Earth had strong magnetic field
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 04, 2007 |
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Geophysicists at the University of Rochester announce in today’s issue of Nature that the Earth’s magnetic field was nearly as strong 3.2 billion years ago as it is today.
Seats helped ancient greeks hear from back row
Apr 04, 2007 |
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As the ancient Greeks were placing the last few stones on the magnificent theater at Epidaurus in the fourth century B.C., they couldn’t have known that they had unwittingly created a sophisticated acoustic ...
X-ray satellites catch magnetar in gigantic stellar 'hiccup'
Apr 04, 2007 |
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Astronomers using data from several X-ray satellites have caught a magnetar – the remnant of a massive star with an incredibly strong magnetic field – in a sort of giant cosmic blench.
Seeking the Next Kevlar: Researchers Fine Tune Nanotube/Nylon Composite Using Carbon Spacers
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 04, 2007 |
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A team of University of Pennsylvania and Rice University researchers have added a significant new step to the creation of materials fortified by single-walled carbon nanotubes, or SWNTs, resulting in a nylon polymer composite ...
Fascinating Spider Silk
Apr 04, 2007 |
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Stronger than steel and more elastic than rubber: spider silk is unsurpassed in its expandability, resistance to tearing, and toughness. Spider silk would be an ideal material for a large variety of medical and technical ...
Discovery in plants suggests entirely new approach to treating human cancers
Biology /
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For the first time, scientists from the University of Washington School of Medicine, Indiana University Bloomington and the University of Cambridge have determined how a plant hormone -- auxin -- interacts with its hormone ...
Dust clouds in cosmic cycle
Apr 04, 2007 |
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It has been a mystery for astronomers how certain dying stars have their colossal quantities of material blown out into the universe and shrink into objects called "white dwarves". This is the basis of a ground-breaking ...
Supernova impostor goes supernova
Apr 04, 2007 |
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In a galaxy far, far away, a massive star suffered a nasty double whammy. On Oct. 20, 2004, Japanese amateur astronomer Koichi Itagaki saw the star let loose an outburst so bright that it was initially mistaken ...
Chemists develop new method for synthesizing anti-cancer flavonoids
Apr 04, 2007 |
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Flavonoids. You’ve heard of them -- the good-for-your-health compounds found in plants that we enjoy in red wine, dark chocolate, green tea and citrus fruits. Mother Nature is an ace at making them, producing different ones ...
Self-regulation abilities, beyond intelligence, play major role in early achievement
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 04, 2007 |
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Although intelligence is generally thought to play a key role in children's early academic achievement, aspects of children's self-regulation abilities -- including the ability to alternately shift and focus attention and ...
Study links propensity toward worry to early death
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 04, 2007 |
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As reported in the May issue of Psychological Science, men who increased over time in neuroticism died earlier, mostly from cancer and heart disease.
Thirty-Two Mile Cable Installed for First Deep-Sea Observatory
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 04, 2007 |
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Oceanographers have completed an important step in constructing the first deep-sea observatory off the continental United States. Workers in the multi-institution effort laid 32 miles (52 kilometers) of cable ...
