Physics breakthrough much ado about 'nothing'
Mar 05, 2008 |
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How do scientists store nothing? It may sound like the beginning of a bad joke, but the answer is causing a stir in the realm of quantum physics after two research teams, including one from the University of Calgary, have ...
Type 2 diabetes may be caused by intestinal dysfunction
Mar 05, 2008 |
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Growing evidence shows that surgery may effectively cure Type 2 diabetes -- an approach that not only may change the way the disease is treated, but that introduces a new way of thinking about diabetes.
Future 'quantum computers' will offer increased efficiency... and risks
Mar 05, 2008 |
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An unusual observation in a University of Central Florida physics lab may lead to a new generation of “Quantum Computers” that will render today’s computer and credit card encryption technology obsolete.
Go with your gut -- intuition is more than just a hunch
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 05, 2008 |
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Most of us experience ‘gut feelings’ we can’t explain, such as instantly loving – or hating – a new property when we’re househunting or the snap judgements we make on meeting new people. Now researchers at Leeds say these ...
Scientists identify origin of hiss in upper atmosphere
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 05, 2008 |
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Scientists have solved a 40-year-old puzzle by identifying the origin of the intense radio waves in the Earth's upper atmosphere that control the dynamics of the Van Allen radiation belts — belts consisting of high-energy ...
Study rearranges some branches on animal tree of life
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Mar 05, 2008 |
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A study led by Brown University biologist Casey Dunn uses new genomics tools to answer old questions about animal evolution. The study is the most comprehensive animal phylogenomic research project to date, involving 40 million ...
Mars and Venus are surprisingly similar
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 05, 2008 |
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Using two ESA spacecraft, planetary scientists are watching the atmospheres of Mars and Venus being stripped away into space. The simultaneous observations by Mars Express and Venus Express give scientists ...
Can moths or butterflies remember what they learned as caterpillars?
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Mar 05, 2008 |
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Butterflies and moths are well known for their striking metamorphosis from crawling caterpillars to winged adults. In light of this radical change, not just in body form, but also in lifestyle, diet and dependence on particular ...
Scientists discover massive Jurassic marine reptile
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 05, 2008 |
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University of Alaska Museum of the North earth sciences curator Patrick Druckenmiller spent several weeks last summer working with a Norwegian research team to excavate a large pliosaur specimen in the remote ...
Good Vibrations Probe Innards of Molecular Electronic Junctions
Mar 05, 2008 |
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Using an unusual spectroscopic technique, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have provided the most convincing evidence yet that current is flowing through a simple silicon-based ...
When it comes to emotions, Eastern and Western cultures see things very differently
Mar 05, 2008 |
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A team of researchers from Canada and Japan have uncovered some remarkable results on how eastern and western cultures assess situations very differently.
Key component of Earth's crust formed from moving molten rock
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 05, 2008 |
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Earth scientists are in the business of backing into history -- extrapolating what happened millions of years ago based on what they can observe now. Using this method, a team of Cornell researchers has created ...
Secrets of cooperation between trees and fungi revealed
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Mar 05, 2008 |
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Plants gained their ancestral toehold on dry land with considerable help from their fungal friends. Now, millennia later, that partnership is being exploited as a strategy to bolster biomass production for next generation ...
Subconscious mental connection between blacks, apes may reinforce subtle discrimination
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 05, 2008 |
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Many U.S. citizens may not hold openly racist beliefs today, but they still may subconsciously link African Americans with apes because people still use words and metaphors that subtly reinforce a less-than-human bias and ...
Sky's the limit for bee brain power
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Families flocked to see the latest animated hit Bee Movie, but scientists from UQ's Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) have long embraced the bee for very different reasons.
