Physicists Unite Light And Matter (Update)
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Physicists have for the first time stopped and extinguished a light pulse in one part of space and then revived it in a completely separate location. They accomplished this feat by completely converting the ...
Male sweat boosts women's hormone levels
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Just a few whiffs of a chemical found in male sweat is enough to raise levels of the stress hormone cortisol in heterosexual women, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, scientists.
For computer scientists exploring face recognition, the question is 'who?'
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One of the most challenging tasks for computer vision researchers is to design a system that can automatically recognize individual faces. Humans, who can perform this task in as little as 50 milliseconds—almost ...
Study shows largest North America climate change in 65 million years
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 07, 2007 |
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The largest climate change in central North America since the age of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, a temperature drop of nearly 15 degrees Fahrenheit, is documented within the fossilized teeth of horses ...
Scientists use seismic waves to locate missing rock under Tibet
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 07, 2007 |
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Geologists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have located a huge chunk of Earth's lithosphere that went missing 15 million years ago. By finding the massive block of errant rock beneath Tibet, the researchers ...
Parkinson's disease: Treatment breakthrough in mice opens new path
Feb 07, 2007 |
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Marijuana-like chemicals in the brain may point to a treatment for the debilitating condition of Parkinson's disease. In a study to be published in the Feb. 8 issue of Nature, researchers from the Stanford University School ...
New data shakes accepted models of collisions of the Earth's crust
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 07, 2007 |
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New research findings may help refine the accepted models used by earth scientists over the past 30 years to describe the ways in which continents clash to form the Earth's landscape.
New measurements recast usual view of elusive force
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Physicists at JILA have demonstrated that the warmer a surface is, the stronger its subtle ability to attract nearby atoms, a finding that could affect the design of devices that rely on small-scale interactions, ...
Adaptation to global climate change is an essential response to a warming planet
Feb 07, 2007 |
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Temperatures are rising on Earth, which is heating up the debate over global warming and the future of our planet, but what may be needed most to combat global warming is a greater focus on adapting to our ...
NASA's Largest Space Telescope Mirror Will See Deeper Into Space
Feb 07, 2007 |
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When scientists are looking into space, the more they can see, the easier it is to piece together the puzzle of the cosmos. The James Webb Space Telescope's mirror blanks have now been constructed. When polished ...
Technique reveals colors and intensity of all lightwaves simultaneously
Feb 07, 2007 |
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Physicists at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology have taken the first ever two-dimensional pictures of a "frequency comb," providing extra information that enhances the ...
Storing CO2 below ground may prevent polluting above
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 07, 2007 |
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A new analysis led by an MIT scientist describes a mechanism for capturing carbon dioxide emissions from a power plant and injecting the gas into the ground, where it would be trapped naturally as tiny bubbles and safely ...
Cold storage solution for global warming?
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 07, 2007 |
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Researchers from the University of Leicester and the British Geological Society (BGS) have proposed storing CO2 in huge underground reservoirs as a way of reducing emissions- and have even identified sites in W ...
New medical use for olive oil suggested
Feb 07, 2007 |
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Spanish medical researchers say they have discovered a new potential benefit of olive oil for people suffering from peptic ulcer disease.
Psychologists study perception of mind
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
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U.S. psychologists have determined people perceive the minds of others using two distinct dimensions, rather than one as previously believed.
