Could NASA Get To Pluto Faster? Space Expert Says Yes - By Thinking Nuclear
Feb 07, 2006 |
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As NASA's New Horizons spacecraft winds its way on a nine-year journey toward Pluto and the outer solar system, at least one expert wonders why such missions need to take so long.
Russian scientist predicts 'mini Ice Age'
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A Russian astronomer has predicted that Earth will experience a "mini Ice Age" in the middle of this century, caused by low solar activity.
Scientists Sequence Complete Genome of Woolly Mammoth
Feb 07, 2006 |
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Scientists have completed the oldest mitochondrial genome sequence from the 33,000-year-old remains of a woolly mammoth; results show mammoths and Asian elephants are a sister species that diverged soon after ...
Nanocoatings: A bathroom that cleans itself
Feb 07, 2006 |
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Cleaning bathrooms may become a thing of the past with new coatings that will do the job for you. Researchers at the University of New South Wales are developing new coatings they hope will be used for self-cleaning ...
Hubble Snaps Images of a Pinwheel-Shaped Galaxy
Feb 07, 2006 |
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Looking like a child's pinwheel ready to be set a spinning by a gentle breeze, this dramatic spiral galaxy is one of the latest viewed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Stunning details of the face-on spiral ...
Nano World: Microbes can make nanocatalyst
Feb 07, 2006 |
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Bacteria can salvage precious metals from electronics and automotive waste and with them create crystals that are nanometers or billionths of a meter wide that in future could serve as toxin removing catalysts, experts told ...
Toshiba and NEC Develop World's Fastest, Highest Density MRAM
Feb 07, 2006 |
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Toshiba Corporation and NEC Corporation today announced that they have developed a magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) that combines the highest density with the fastest read and write speed yet achieved. ...
LG Launches Next-Generation Digital TV Featuring an Upgraded Digital Video Recorder
Feb 07, 2006 |
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LG Electronics unveiled the upgraded flat panel TV equipped with enhanced HD-Digital Video Recorder (DVR) at a launch event and press conference held today at Seoul Hilton Hotel.
How to Steal a Million Stars?
Feb 07, 2006 |
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Based on observations with ESO's Very Large Telescope, a team of Italian astronomers reports that the stellar cluster Messier 12 must have lost to our Milky Way galaxy close to one million low-mass stars.
Biologists show that what a neuron can do is a function of mechanical context
Feb 07, 2006 |
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The brain as command center for bodily movement was too simple an idea, thought the Russian physiologist Nicolas Bernstein some 60 years ago. After studying human movements for years, Bernstein pointed out in 1940 that the ...
Study: Grammar ability hardwired in humans
Feb 07, 2006 |
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University of Rochester scientists studying why characteristics of grammar are found in all languages say the use of grammar is hardwired in our brains.
New climate research reveals growing risk of water shortages and flooding in California
Feb 07, 2006 |
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If the world continues to burn greenhouse gases, California may have an increased risk of winter floods and summer water shortages, even within the same year. This scenario may be more severe in future El ...
SMART-1 To Crash Into Lunar Surface In August
Feb 07, 2006 |
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The European Moon probe SMART-1, which was developed by SSC for ESA, has been orbiting the Moon since November 2004. Its main mission, to qualify an electric propulsion system, is completed, and the probe is ...
Smell something? Ask the rat -- he 'nose'
Feb 07, 2006 |
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A Bangalore, India, neuroscientist says he's found rats smell in stereo, with each nostril operating independently of the other.
Canada creates massive 'working' park
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The creation of a unique 4.4 million acre environmental "working" park was announced Tuesday along British Columbia's southwest shores.
