Composer reveals musical chords' hidden geometry
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Composers often speak of fitting chords and melodies together, as though sounds were physical objects with geometric shape -- and now a Princeton University musician has shown that advanced geometry actually does offer a ...
New Ion Trap May Lead to Large Quantum Computers
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Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have designed and built a novel electromagnetic trap for ions that could be easily mass produced to potentially make quantum computers large ...
First 3.2 megapixel camera phone for U.S.
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Verizon Wireless and Samsung Thursday introduced the first camera phone in the U.S. market with 3.2 megapixels.
Solitons could power molecular electronics, artificial muscles
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Scientists have discovered something new about exotic particles called solitons. Since the 1980s, scientists have known that solitons can carry an electrical charge when traveling through certain organic polymers. ...
A Broadband Light Amplifier on a Photonic Chip
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Cornell University researchers have created a broadband light amplifier on a silicon chip, a major breakthrough in the quest to create photonic microchips. In such microchips, beams of light traveling through ...
Faking it for physicists
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In a "faking it" style test, a social scientist has fooled a panel of physicist judges into believing he was an experienced gravitational wave physicist.
Ancient raindrops reveal the origins of California's Sierra Nevada range
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 06, 2006 |
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One of the longest ongoing controversies in Earth science concerns the age of California's Sierra Nevada, the tallest mountain range in the continental United States and site of Yosemite National Park, Lake Tahoe and other ...
Mice Capable of Empathy
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A new study by McGill University professor of psychology Dr. Jeffrey Mogil shows that the capacity for empathy, previously suspected but unproven even among higher primates, is also evident in lower mammals.
Study: Marijuana may lead to other drugs
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U.S. scientists say they don't believe the theory that experimentation with marijuana is harmless and won't lead to further drug use.
Hackers crack PSP security upgrades
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Independent programmers have made available a program that downgrades PlayStation Portable security software to a more tinkering-friendly version.
NASA Satellites Find Balance in South America's Water Cycle
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Jul 06, 2006 |
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For the first time, NASA scientists using space-based measurements have directly monitored and measured the complete cycle of water movement for an entire continent.
Viral invasion of the koala genome
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University of Queensland researchers have made a startling discovery that may explain why the koala, one of the world's most loved marsupials, is susceptible to certain infections and cancers.
India To Build Independent Satellite Navigation System
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ISRO officials met with industry representatives Tuesday to discuss the Indian government's plan to build an independent satellite navigation system using home-grown components. The project, called the Indian Regional Navigation ...
Study: Over-eating related to portion size
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A University of Pennsylvania study suggested Thursday that people will eat any size food portion that is offered to them.
Take new look at cellular suicide
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Like a bodyguard turned traitor, a protein whose regular job is to help repair severed DNA molecules will, in some cases, join forces with another protein to do the opposite and chop the DNA to bits, according to new research ...
