Free software brings affordability, transparency to mathematics
Dec 06, 2007 |
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Until recently, a student solving a calculus problem, a physicist modeling a galaxy or a mathematician studying a complex equation had to use powerful computer programs that cost hundreds or thousands of dollars. ...
IBM using light instead of wires for building supercomputers-on-a-chip
Dec 06, 2007 |
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Supercomputers that consist of thousands of individual processor "brains" connected by miles of copper wires could one day fit into a laptop PC, thanks in part to a breakthrough by IBM scientists announced ...
Laser light alone can open, close world's fastest optical shutter without heating or cooling
Dec 06, 2007 |
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It’s a rare case of all light and no heat: A new study reports that a laser can be used to switch a film of vanadium dioxide back and forth between reflective and transparent states without heating or cooling ...
Supercomputer simulation of universe may help in search for missing matter
Dec 06, 2007 |
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Much of the gaseous mass of the universe is bound up in a tangled web of cosmic filaments that stretch for hundreds of millions of light-years, according to a new supercomputer study by a team led by the University ...
Researchers can read thoughts to decipher what a person is actually seeing
Dec 06, 2007 |
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Following ground-breaking research showing that neurons in the human brain respond in an abstract manner to particular individuals or objects, University of Leicester researchers have now discovered that, from the firing ...
This is your brain on violent media
Dec 06, 2007 |
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Violence is a frequent occurrence in television shows and movies, but can watching it make you behave differently?
MIT creates new oil-repelling material
Dec 06, 2007 |
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MIT engineers have designed the first simple process for manufacturing materials that strongly repel oils. The material, which can be applied as a flexible surface coating, could have applications in aviation, ...
'Hellish' hot springs yield greenhouse gas-eating bug
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Dec 06, 2007 |
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A new species of bacteria discovered living in one of the most extreme environments on Earth could yield a tool in the fight against global warming.
Images of Saturn's Small Moons Tell the Story of Their Origins
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 06, 2007 |
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Imaging scientists on NASA's Cassini mission are telling a tale of how the small moons orbiting near the outer rings of Saturn came to be. The moons began as leftover shards from larger bodies that broke apart ...
50 gigawatts of electrical power could be released by damming the Red Sea
Dec 06, 2007 |
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Damming the Red Sea could solve the growing energy demands of millions of people in the Middle East and alleviate some of the region's tensions pertaining to oil supplies through hydroelectric power. Equally, such a massive ...
Hinode reveals new insights about the origin of solar wind
Dec 06, 2007 |
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Images from NASA-funded telescopes aboard a Japanese satellite have shed new light about the sun's magnetic field and the origins of solar wind, which disrupts power grids, satellites and communications on ...
Missing protein may be key to autism
Dec 06, 2007 |
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A missing brain protein may be one of the culprits behind autism and other brain disorders, according to researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory.
Are we genetically programmed to be generous? Israeli scientists say yes
Dec 06, 2007 |
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Are those inclined towards generosity genetically programmed to behave that way? A team of researchers, including Dr. Ariel Knafo of the Psychology Department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, believes that this could ...
Variable nanocomposites
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 06, 2007 |
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What appear under an atomic force microscope to be tiny rings with little bits missing are actually nanoscopic rings made of double-stranded DNA with a little gap in the form of a short single-stranded fragment. As Michael ...
17-year-old works on NASA spaceship
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
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A 17-year-old student who helped test a U.S. space agency spacecraft has been asked to address the American Geophysical Union's fall meeting next week.
