Inflatable electric car can drive off cliffs
Jun 04, 2008 |
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It's hard to say what the most intriguing thing about XP Vehicles' inflatable car is. Maybe it's that the car can travel for up to 2,500 miles on a single electric charge (the distance across the US is roughly ...
Holodeck 1.0? Star Trek-style 3-D displays make their debut
Jun 04, 2008 |
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True 3-D display technology developed by European researchers offers enormous potential for design, education and collaboration.
Agent in red wine found to keep hearts young
Jun 04, 2008 |
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How, scientists wonder, do the French get away with a clean bill of heart health despite a diet loaded with saturated fats?
Brief, intense exercise benefits the heart
Jun 04, 2008 |
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Short bursts of high intensity sprints -- known to benefit muscle and improve exercise performance—can improve the function and structure of blood vessels, in particular arteries that deliver blood to our muscles and heart, ...
Team hopes to use new technology to search for ETs
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 04, 2008 |
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A Johns Hopkins astronomer is a member of a team briefing fellow scientists about plans to use new technology to take advantage of recent, promising ideas on where to search for possible extraterrestrial intelligence ...
New superconductors present new mysteries, possibilities
Jun 04, 2008 |
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Johns Hopkins University researchers and colleagues in China have unlocked some of the secrets of newly discovered iron-based high-temperature superconductors, research that could result in the design of better superconductors ...
NASA Scientists Pioneer Method for Making Giant Lunar Telescopes
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 04, 2008 |
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Scientists working at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., have concocted an innovative recipe for giant telescope mirrors on the Moon. To make a mirror that dwarfs anything on Earth, just ...
Cartilage regeneration '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'
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Jun 04, 2008 |
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Bioengineers at Rice University have discovered that intense pressure -- similar to what someone would experience more than a half-mile beneath the ocean's surface -- stimulates cartilage cells to grow new tissue with nearly ...
Data show Antarctic ice stream radiating seismically
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 04, 2008 |
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A seismologist at Washington University in St. Louis and colleagues at Pennsylvania State University and Newcastle University in the United Kingdom have found seismic signals from a giant river of ice in Antarctica ...
Grandma and grandpa are good for children
Jun 04, 2008 |
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The first national survey about the relationships that adolescents have with their grandparents shows that grandparents who are involved in the upbringing of their grandchildren can contribute to a child’s ...
Honeybee dance breaks down cultural barrier
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Asian and European honeybees can learn to understand one another's dance languages despite having evolved different forms of communication, an international research team has shown for the first time. The findings are published ...
Are microbes the answer to the energy crisis?
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Jun 04, 2008 |
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The answer to the looming fuel crisis in the 21st century may be found by thinking small, microscopic in fact. Microscopic organisms from bacteria and cyanobacteria, to fungi to microalgae, are biological factories that ...
Prototype hydrogen storage tank maintains extended thermal endurance
Jun 04, 2008 |
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A cryogenic pressure vessel developed and installed in an experimental hybrid vehicle by a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory research team can hold liquid hydrogen for six days without venting any of ...
New Link Between Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes: Researchers Discover New Way Fats Kill Beta-cells
Jun 04, 2008 |
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Researchers at the University of British Columbia have discovered a new link between increased level of fat in the human body and Type 2 diabetes. Researchers believe this will open new fields in diabetes research and could ...
A new way to protect computer networks from Internet worms
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jun 04, 2008 |
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Scientists may have found a new way to combat the most dangerous form of computer virus. The method automatically detects within minutes when an Internet worm has infected a computer network. Network administrators can then ...
