A Cosmic Coincidence Resurrects the Cyclical Universe
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Over the past five years or so, scientists have finally converged on a model of the universe that explains (or at least permits) all of its characteristics. The new cosmological model has one very surprising feature, however, ...
Shuttling Electrons
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“We are trying to understand quantum nano-electro-mechanical systems,” Jason Twamley explains to PhysOrg.com. “These systems display richer dynamics and interactions than one can obtain with quantum optical ...
Jupiter's 'Big Brother' Has Moon-Forming Dust Disk
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Earth's Moon was created by an early collision with another large planetary body. It was a "chip off the old block." Mars captured its asteroidal moons as they passed by. But Jupiter made its own moons out ...
Galaxy evolution in cyber universe matches astronomical observations in fine detail
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Scientists at the University of Chicago have bolstered the case for a popular scenario of the big bang theory that neatly explains the arrangement of galaxies throughout the universe. Their supercomputer simulation ...
Growing Nanostructures on Micro Cantilever Provides New Platform for Materials Discovery
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Researchers have developed a new technique that could provide detailed information about the growth of carbon nanotubes and other nanometer-scale structures as they are being produced. The technique offers ...
New discovery could offer clues to origins of Milky Way
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Spiral galaxies are the glitter of the universe. These systems of stars, dust, gas and plasma are held together by gravity but seem to pinwheel across the darkness of space. They have fascinated nighthawks ...
'Cosmic Telescopes' May Have Found Infant Galaxies
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Using massive clusters of galaxies as “cosmic telescopes,” a research team led by a Johns Hopkins University astronomer has found what may be infant galaxies born in the first billion years after the beginning ...
Scientists try to interpret horse speak
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U.S. researchers are listening to horse vocalizations in an attempt to interpret how stress is communicated when the animals whinny.
Carbon Dots Newest Member of Brightly Luminescent Nanoparticle Family
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Jun 05, 2006 |
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Chemists at Clemson University have developed a new type of quantum dot that is the first to be made from carbon. Like their metal-based counterparts, these nanoscale "carbon dots" glow brightly when exposed to light and ...
New software 'teaches' computers how to identify beauty
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Beauty is no longer just in the eye of the beholder-computers "taught" to evaluate photographs can match people's aesthetic judgments of "beautiful" or "pretty" more than 70 percent of the time, according to Penn State researchers.
Andromeda Adrift in Sea of Dust in New Spitzer Image
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The Andromeda galaxy, named for the mythological princess who almost fell prey to a sea monster, appears tranquil in a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The mesmerizing infrared mosaic shows red ...
Scientists predict pulsar starquakes
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Scientists have discovered how to predict earthquake-like events in pulsars, the dense remains of exploded stars. These are violent episodes that likely crack a pulsar's dense crust and momentarily increase its spin rate.
New Gemini Images Contrast the Late Evolution of Two Very Different Stars
Jun 05, 2006 |
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Two new images from the Gemini Observatory released today at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Calgary, Canada, show a pair of beautiful nebulae that were created by two very different types of stars ...
Cloner proposes genetic altering
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A British scientist who helped produce the world's first cloned mammal proposes creating cloned babies genetically altered to prevent hereditary disease.
Group Living Takes a Toll on Galaxies
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Astronomers have detected substantial amounts of filamentary, cold gas in compact groups of galaxies, highlighting what may be an important force in galactic evolution, scientists announced today at the American ...
