New search engine 'revolutionary'
Sep 06, 2005 |
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A 26-year-old PhD student from the University of New South Wales has patented a new way of exploring the web that could revolutionise existing search engines. Developed by Ori Allon, the Orion (TM) search engine is designed to ...
Animals and Human Experience the Same Emotions
Sep 06, 2005 |
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The link between humans and animals may be closer than we may have realised. Research by Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) has found that our furry relatives may share many of the same emotions that humans experience ...
Crime Scene Investigation: Can maths tell what happened?
Sep 06, 2005 |
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The next Miss Marple or Sherlock Holmes could well be a mathematician, suggest researchers speaking at the British Association Festival of Science in Dublin today. Mathematics is playing such an increasingly important rol ...
Chernobyl: The true scale of the accident
Sep 06, 2005 |
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20 years later a UN report provides definitive answers and ways to repair lives A total of up to four thousand people could eventually die of radiation exposure from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (NPP) accident nearly 20 ...
8,000-year-old boat found in South Korea
Sep 06, 2005 |
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Remains of what's believed an 8,000-year-old wooden boat have been discovered on the Korean Peninsula.
Star eats companion
Sep 06, 2005 |
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ESA's Integral space observatory, together with NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer spacecraft, has found a fast-spinning pulsar in the process of devouring its companion. This finding supports the theory tha ...
Brain computer interface may help learning
Sep 06, 2005 |
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Ohio researchers say they have discovered animal learning can be significantly enhanced by using a brain-computer interface.
Driving improved automotive chip design
Sep 06, 2005 |
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A recently completed EU project developed better tools for integrated microcircuit design; achieved some world firsts in performance analysis and now may even spin off a new company to commercialise some of its new technologies. ...
How to Build A Big Star
Sep 06, 2005 |
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The most massive stars in our galaxy weigh as much as 100 small stars like the Sun. How do such monsters form? Do they grow rapidly by swallowing smaller protostars within crowded star-forming regions?
E-mail program to help Japan's diabetics
Sep 06, 2005 |
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A Japanese research team has reportedly developed a system to help improve diabetics' lifestyle by using e-mail.
Translator for movie worlds
Sep 06, 2005 |
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Even the film industry has to contend with the annoyance of incompatible standards. Converters can do more than provide a transition between European and US television. Scientists are displaying the prototype of a multi-purpose ...
Deep Impact Adds Color to Unfolding Comet Picture
Sep 06, 2005 |
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Painting by the numbers is a good description of how scientists create pictures of everything from atoms in our bodies to asteroids and comets in our solar system. Researchers involved in NASA's Deep Impact ...
Darwinism on trial in Kansas
Sep 06, 2005 |
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Kansas is reportedly ready to approve teaching standards requiring Darwin's theory of evolution be challenged in the classroom.
Private space launch to be announced
Sep 06, 2005 |
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New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson reportedly is ready to announce the first in a series of launches from his state's new Southwest Regional Spaceport.
New algorithm found for learning languages
Sep 06, 2005 |
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Cornell University and Tel Aviv University researchers say they've developed a method for enabling a computer program to learn languages.
