New Spin Source Could Offer Insight Into Gravity
Mar 06, 2007 |
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“We have a situation in physics where we understand very well the quantum forces,” Clive Speake tells PhysOrg.com. “But gravity, as we understand it, is a problem.”
Solar energy conversion offers a solution to help mitigate global warming
Mar 06, 2007 |
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Solar energy has the power to reduce greenhouse gases and provide increased energy efficiency, says a scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, in a report published in the March ...
Full-spectrum study of small patch of sky yields portrait of maturing universe
Mar 06, 2007 |
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A massive project to generate an all-color map of the galaxies in a small area of sky, utilizing four satellite telescopes and four ground-based telescopes, is yielding new information about the universe's ...
Sound waves turn natural gas into liquid
Mar 06, 2007 |
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Worldwide, 100 billion cubic meters of natural gas is wasted every year. Now, the Denver-based company Swift LNG aims to turn that gas into a usable liquid fuel with a thermoacoustic natural gas liquefaction technology just ...
Researchers use heated nanoprobes to destroy breast cancer cells in mice
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Mar 06, 2007 |
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In experiments with laboratory mice that bear aggressive human breast cancers, UC Davis researchers have used hot nanoprobes to slow the growth of tumors -- without damage to surrounding healthy tissue. The researchers describe ...
Paper challenges 1491 Amazonian population theories
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There's a scholarly debate brewing about whether pre-Columbian Amazonian populations settled in large numbers across Amazonia and created the modern forest setting that many conservationists take to be ‘natural.'
Pollution From China And India Affecting World’s Weather
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 06, 2007 |
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Severe pollution from the Far East is almost certainly affecting the weather near you, says a Texas A&M University researcher who has studied the problem and has published a landmark paper on the topic in the Proceedings of ...
Tonga quake not conducive to tsunami
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 06, 2007 |
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Seismologists at Washington University in St. Louis and their colleagues in Australia, Japan and Tonga have determined why a large earthquake in Tonga did not cause a large tsunami. A tsunami warning was issued ...
For Easy Tasks, Brain Preps and Decides Together
Mar 06, 2007 |
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A Georgia Tech researcher has discovered that for tasks involving spatial processing, preparing for the task and performing it are not two separate brain processes, but one – at least when there are a small ...
Fujitsu Introduces World's First 2.5'' 7,200 RPM 3.0 Gb/s SATA HDD
Mar 06, 2007 |
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Fujitsu today announced the development of the new MHW2 BJ series of world's first 7,200 rpm 2.5" hard disk drives (HDDs) with a serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s interface.
The social life of honeybees coordinated by a single gene
Biology /
Mar 06, 2007 |
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Students of the evolution of social behavior got a big boost with the publication of the newly sequenced honeybee genome in October 2006. The honeybee (Apis mellifera) belongs to the rarified cadre of insects ...
An architectural plan of the cell
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Mar 06, 2007 |
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Like our body every cell has a skeleton that provides it with a shape, confers rigidity and protects its fragile inner workings. The cytoskeleton is built of long protein filaments that assemble into networks ...
Fluorescence microscopy reveals why some antifreeze proteins inhibit ice growth better than others
Mar 06, 2007 |
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Antifreeze or “ice structuring” proteins – found in some fish, insects, plants, fungi and bacteria – attach to the surface of ice crystals to inhibit their growth and keep the host organism from freezing to ...
Researchers Decipher The Buzzing Of Bees
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Mar 06, 2007 |
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Everyone has heard of the canary in the coal mine, which sways or drops dead in the presence of poisonous gas, alerting miners to get out. Now a University of Montana research team has learned to understand ...
Holographic images use shimmer to show cellular response to anticancer drug
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The response of tumors to anticancer drugs has been observed in real-time 3-D images using technology developed at Purdue University.
