I can, automatically, become just like you
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 06, 2008 |
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No one likes to be excluded from a group: exclusion can decrease mood, reduce self-esteem and feelings of belonging, and even ultimately lead to negative behavior (e.g., the shootings at Virginia Tech). As a result, we often ...
Duck-billed dinosaurs outgrew predators to survive
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Aug 06, 2008 |
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With long limbs and a soft body, the duck-billed hadrosaur had few defenses against predators such as tyrannosaurs. But new research on the bones of this plant-eating dinosaur suggests that it had at least ...
AMD Launches World's Fastest Motherboard GPU: AMD 790GX
Aug 06, 2008 |
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AMD today announced the availability of the industry’s preeminent performance desktop platform, the AMD 790GX. Packing a host of innovations, the AMD 790GX integrates advanced performance tuning for AMD Phenom ...
New Technique Reveals Hidden Properties of Ultracold Atomic Gases
Aug 06, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at JILA, a joint institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado at Boulder, have demonstrated a powerful new technique that reveals ...
Innovative research brings quantum computers one step closer
Aug 06, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Complex computer encryption codes could be solved and new drug design developed significantly faster thanks to new research carried out by the University of Surrey.
Humans' response to risk can be unnecessarily dangerous, study
Biology /
Aug 06, 2008 |
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The traffic light ahead of you is turning yellow. Do you gun the engine and speed through the intersection, trusting that others will wait for their green, or do you slow down and wait your turn?
A potted history of milk
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Aug 06, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Humans were processing cattle milk in pottery vessels more than two thousand years earlier than previously thought, according to new research from the University of Bristol.
Floss your teeth -- on the double!
Aug 06, 2008 |
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In dental offices all over the world, patients are often told they are not flossing enough or instructed to floss more. As the old saying goes, you only need to floss the teeth you want to keep. After all, not flossing regularly ...
Skipping Atomic-scale Stones to Study Some Chemistry Basics
Aug 06, 2008 |
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Thought experiment: a carbon dioxide molecule—think of a cheerleader’s baton—comes slanting in at high speed over a dense liquid, strikes the surface and ricochets. How does it tumble? Fast or slow? Forward, ...
Scientists a step closer to producing fuel from bacteria
Biology /
Aug 06, 2008 |
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Scientists at the University of Sheffield have shown how bacteria could be used as a future fuel. The research, published in the journal Bioinformatics, could have significant implications for the environment and the way we ...
Phoenix Mars Team Opens Window on Scientific Process
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 06, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Phoenix Mars mission scientists spoke today on research in progress concerning an ongoing investigation of perchlorate salts detected in soil analyzed by the wet chemistry laboratory aboard ...
Protecting natural forests crucial for climate change
Aug 06, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- South-east Australia’s natural forests are among the most carbon dense in the world and store three times more carbon than Australian and international climate change experts realise, a world-first ...
Computer Poker Program Knows When to Hold 'Em
Aug 06, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Texas Hold'em poker has exploded in popularity over the past few years. Its popularity has extended to academic researchers, who are intrigued by the challenges of probabilities and decision-making in the ...
Vegas 'Quantum Spookshow' Demos On-the-Fly Encryption of Streaming Video
Aug 06, 2008 |
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Las Vegas shows often are on the cutting edge. Following this tradition, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have landed ...
The Schiavo case: Are mass media to be blamed?
Aug 06, 2008 |
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In 1990, Theresa Schiavo, an American citizen, had a cardiac arrest that caused irreversible brain damage which led to a persistent vegetative state diagnosis. A few years later, this diagnosis became a source of conflict ...
