Harnessing the heating - and cooling - powers of the sun
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Imagine heat radiating from the walls of your home on a cold winter night, or the glass in your home's windows emitting cool temperatures on a scorching summer afternoon. Now imagine these systems operating on an endless ...
Computer simulation shows buckyballs deform DNA
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Soccer-ball-shaped "buckyballs" are the most famous players on the nanoscale field, presenting tantalizing prospects of revolutionizing medicine and the computer industry. Since their discovery in 1985, engineers ...
Munich scientists study bystander effect
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A Munich, Germany, study indicates the larger the group watching someone in trouble in a public place, the less likely anyone will offer to help.
Nano World: New aimed nanoparticles
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A new method to develop collections of nanoparticles that each seek out different cell types could help scientists to better spot tumors before they grow or to deliver medicines to precise targets, experts told ...
Researchers confirm lead as cause of Beethoven's illness
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Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have found massive amounts of lead in bone fragments belonging to 19th Century composer Ludwig von Beethoven, confirming the cause of his years of ...
Study: Late life is different from aging
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Although getting older may seem inevitable, a major new study examines the point in human life at which one's body stops aging.
Boeing A160 Hummingbird Completes Flight Test
Dec 06, 2005 |
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Boeing has announced the A160 Hummingbird unmanned rotorcraft made its first test flight from an airfield near Victorville, Calif., Nov. 30. "This flight - the first with a six cylinder Subaru engine - is an ...
Catalytic converters: source of pollution?
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Massachusetts scientists say toxic metals from automotive catalytic converters have been detected for the first time in U.S. urban air.
Galaxy collisions dominate the local universe
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More than half of the largest galaxies in the nearby universe have collided and merged with another galaxy in the past two billion years, according to a Yale astronomer in a study using hundreds of images from ...
Better body armor expected from new material formation process
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Dec 06, 2005 |
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A Georgia Institute of Technology researcher has developed a process that increases the hardness and improves the ballistic performance of the material used by the U.S. military for body armor. The researcher's ...
Cassini images reveal spectacular evidence of an active moon
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Jets of fine, icy particles streaming from Saturn's moon Enceladus were captured in recent images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The images provide unambiguous visual evidence the moon is geologically active.
UK researchers find way to reduce power consumption of transistors in computer chips
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University of Kentucky researchers have discovered a means of reducing gate leakage current of transistors in computer chips that will permit chip producers to continue developing more efficient and powerful chips with reduced ...
Top german technology for Hubble's successor
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[PIC=:left]Carl Zeiss Optronics, in Oberkochen, Germany, and the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg (MPIA), are developing the main fine mechanical optical technology for two instruments to be part of the James ...
Researchers assess rates and risks of gambling
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More than 80 percent of the U.S. population gambles at some time in their lives. It might be the lottery, bingo or poker. Most never need treatment for problem gambling, but others lose control and lose their houses or cars ...
New Easter Island theory presented
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A University of Hawaii anthropologist and colleagues are blaming rats and Dutch traders for the mysterious abandonment of Easter Island.
