Record-setting Laser May Aid Searches for Earthlike Planets
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Scientists at the University of Konstanz in Germany and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated an ultrafast laser that offers a record combination of high speed, short ...
65-million-year-old asteroid impact triggered a global hail of carbon beads
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 05, 2008 |
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The asteroid presumed to have wiped out the dinosaurs struck the Earth with such force that carbon deep in the Earth's crust liquefied, rocketed skyward, and formed tiny airborne beads that blanketed the planet, ...
The Particle Whisperers
May 05, 2008 |
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As many parents know, it's often easier to keep your kids under control by exerting less authority rather than more. A child who fidgets uncontrollably in a confining booster seat, for example, may be perfectly content on ...
Innovative technology provides insight into what’s below the Earth’s surface
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 05, 2008 |
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From oil fields and meteorite impact craters, to potential tsunami triggering submarine landslides, innovative new technology which provides images from below the Earth’s surface has been unveiled.
NTT Introduces Commercial RedTaction 'Firmo' Security Device
May 05, 2008 |
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NTT has developed a means to harness the Human Area Network to create Firmo. Firmo utilizes RedTaction which is a human body communication technology. It uses the surface of the human body as a transmission ...
Fungi have a hand in depleted uranium's environmental fate
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Fungi may have an important role to play in the fate of potentially dangerous depleted uranium left in the environment after recent war campaigns, according to a new report in the May 6th issue of Current Biology, a publ ...
Quantum Mechanical Con Game
May 05, 2008 |
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For the first time, physicists have come up with a scheme that would allow a quantum mechanical expert to win every time in a con game with a victim who only knows about classical physics. Prior quantum cons have typically ...
People with Mentally Demanding Jobs Reap Cognitive Benefits into Retirement
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 05, 2008 |
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Doing a job that is intellectually demanding creates thinking abilities that pay dividends into retirement -- regardless of intelligence or years of education, according to new research from the Duke University Medical Center.
Secondhand smoke exposure can cause cell damage in 30 minutes
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Exposure to secondhand smoke even for a brief period is injurious to health, a new study by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco has found.
RFID testbed measures multiple tags at once and rapidly assesses new antenna designs
May 05, 2008 |
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Researchers have designed a system capable of simultaneously measuring hundreds of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags and rapidly testing new RFID tag prototypes.
Trouble in paradise: Warming a greater danger to tropical species
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Polar bears fighting for survival in the face of a rapid decline of polar ice have made the Arctic a poster child for the negative effects of climate change. But new research shows that species living in the ...
Flip flops, mulch and no coat
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At a time when over half of US children (aged 3-6) are in child care centers, and growing concern over childhood obesity has led physicians to focus on whether children are getting enough physical activity, a new study of ...
The secret to long life may not be in the genes
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A research on the bone health of one of the oldest persons in the world, who recently died at the age of 114, reveals that there were no genetic modifications which could have contributed to this longevity. The research team, ...
Researchers use cyberinfrastructure to standardize water data collections
Technology / Computer Sciences
May 05, 2008 |
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Like the popular children’s song “There’s a Hole in My Bucket,” in which Liza and Henry try to patch a leaking pail, researchers with the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego are plugging a hole in the data management ...
Fighting global warming — at the dinner table
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Substituting chicken, fish, or vegetables for red meat just once a week can help combat climate change — even more dramatically than buying locally sourced food, according to scientists in Pennsylvania who ...
