Nano World: Super-insulating frozen smoke
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The world's best thermal insulators, aerogels made of necklaces of nanometer-sized beads, are starting to find their way into flexible, lightweight sheets in everything from attack helicopters to snowboarding jackets.
Earth Sinks Three Inches Under Weight Of Flooded Amazon
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As the Amazon River floods every year, a sizeable portion of South America sinks several inches because of the extra weight – and then rises again as the waters recede, a study has found.
Good emotional intelligence, good grades
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Virginia Tech scientists in say a student's emotional intelligence indirectly contributes to academic success in information technology.
Rat hair cells found to be true stem cells
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Cells inside hair follicles are stem cells able to develop into the cell types needed for hair growth and follicle replacement, Swiss researchers claim.
Mystery Spot demonstrates power of perception
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For years, UC Santa Cruz psychology professor Bruce Bridgeman has taken college students to the Mystery Spot, a popular local tourist attraction, to demonstrate how the human brain works.
Gulf Warm-Water Eddies Intensify Hurricane Changes
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Scientists monitoring ocean heat and circulation in the Gulf of Mexico during Hurricanes Katrina and Rita have a new understanding of how these tropical storms can gain intensity so quickly: The Gulf of Mexico's ...
Unwed Mothers Have Difficulty Finding 'Good' Husbands, Study Finds
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Women who have children outside of marriage are less likely than other single women to marry, and when they do marry, their husbands tend to be less well-matched, according to a new study.
Panasonic Develops the World's Smallest 1080p Plasma Display Panel
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Prototype of 50-inch PDP unveiled at CEATEC JAPAN 2005 Panasonic today announced the company has developed a prototype of a 50-inch plasma display panel (PDP) with 1080p (progressive) resolution. The proto ...
John L. Hall: Long-time NIST Physicist Wins Nobel Prize
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John (Jan) L. Hall, a scientist emeritus of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Quantum Physics Division and a fellow of JILA, a joint institute of NIST and the University of Colorado, Boulder, ...
New battery technology powers for 12 years
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University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists say they are developing super-charged tiny lithium batteries to help treat nervous system and other disorders.
Two Americans, a German Win 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2005 with one half to Roy J. Glauber Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA “for his contribution to the quantum theory ...
Intervention programs cut risky sex acts
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Community-level intervention programs for young adolescents delay early sexual intercourse, Yale University scientists say.
Researchers use laser amplifier to slow light at room temperature
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Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have made a dramatic advance in their quest to slow light down for applications in speedier communication networks. The research team, led by Connie J. Chang-Hasnain, UC ...
Nanoscientists Provide New Picture of Semiconductor Material
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For almost a decade, scientists thought they understood the surface structure of cubic gallium nitride, a promising new crystalline semiconductor. Research by an interdisciplinary team of nanoscientists from ...
Finding rewrites the evolutionary history of the origin of potatoes
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Humans have cultivated potatoes for millennia, but there has been great controversy about the ubiquitous vegetable's origins. This week, writing in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, a team led by a USDA ...
