MRO Sees Rover from Orbit
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 06, 2006 |
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With stunningly powerful vision, the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has taken a remarkable picture that shows the exploration rover Opportunity poised on the rim of Victoria crater on Mars.
Scientists Nudge Closer to the Edge of a Black Hole
Oct 06, 2006 |
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NASA scientists and their international partners using the new Japanese Suzaku satellite have collected a startling new set of black hole observations, revealing details of twisted space and warped time never ...
New All-Optical Modulator Paves the Way to Ultrafast Communications and Computing
Oct 06, 2006 |
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In the 1950s, a revolution began when glass and metal vacuum tubes were replaced with tiny and cheap transistors. Today, for the cost of a single vacuum tube, you can buy a computer chip with literally millions of transistors.
Scientists Determine the Nature of Black Hole Jets
Oct 06, 2006 |
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NASA and Italian scientists using Swift have for the first time determined what the particle jets streaming from black holes are made of.
Physical Review Letter on Breaking Spaghetti Leads to 2006 Ig Noble Award
Oct 06, 2006 |
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Basile Audoly and Sebastien Neukirch of the Université Pierre et Marie Curie earned the infamous 2006 Ig Noble prize for physics for their insights into why dry spaghetti often breaks into more than two pieces when it is ...
Ig Nobel 2006 Prize in mathematics
Oct 06, 2006 |
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The 2006 Ig Nobel Prize in mathematics was awarded to Dr Piers Barnes and Ms Nic Svenson of CSIRO for figuring out how many photographs to take of a group of people to be confident of getting at least one where ...
NASA Performs Headcount of Local Black Holes
Oct 06, 2006 |
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NASA scientists using the Swift satellite have conducted the first complete census of galaxies with active, central black holes, a project that scanned the entire sky several times over a nine-month period.
Toward Terahertz Detectors on a Single, Conventional Chip
Oct 06, 2006 |
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Sensors and detectors that would work in the terahertz range of the electromagnetic spectrum promise a range of tantalizing properties, from precise identification of concealed weapons to the ability to distinguish ...
Train your brain to hear your friends at a party
Oct 06, 2006 |
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A major science prize was today awarded to a researcher who is looking for the region of the brain that helps us to hear someone in a noisy place, such as a party or bar, and is responsible for "training" the brain to hear ...
Why Are There Wars Without End
Oct 06, 2006 |
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Even as events took place in September recognizing this year's International Day of Peace, most people would concede that some conflicts seem impossible to resolve. Indeed, of the twenty major armed conflicts waged around ...
It’s not just cricket – actually it's physics
Oct 06, 2006 |
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Ever wanted to face a Shane Warne spin delivery or smash a Glen McGrath speed bowl? A new bowling simulator may enable you to do just that. The machine is the first of its kind to use physics, real cricket balls and novel ...
CU Team to Build a Self-Driving Car for City Streets
Oct 06, 2006 |
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Last year, the goal was to build a vehicle that could drive itself, without human intervention, across 132 miles of desert with unpaved roads, ditches, berms, sandy ground, standing water, rocks and boulders, ...
Red wine may protect against Alzheimer's
Oct 06, 2006 |
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A study at a New York medical school finds that mice genetically engineered to get Alzheimer's disease respond to the red wine treatment.
Worms under stress
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Oct 06, 2006 |
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Species respond far more dynamically to disturbances in their environment than we think. This is the conclusion of Dutch researcher Olga Alda Alvarez following her research into the stress response of nematodes, tiny worms ...
Earliest globetrotters may have used sea
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 06, 2006 |
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Early civilizations migrating around the globe may have followed coastal routes from Africa to points east and west, an anthropologist said.
