Goodbye wires... MIT experimentally demonstrates wireless power transfer
Jun 07, 2007 |
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Imagine a future in which wireless power transfer is feasible: cell phones, household robots, mp3 players, laptop computers and other portable electronics capable of charging themselves without ever being ...
Probing Question: Are there upper and lower limits to temperature?
Jun 07, 2007 |
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Most people have heard absolute zero described as the lowest possible temperature, but what does that mean? Is it really the coldest cold, or just the lowest temperature that we can measure? Is there a corresponding ...
Agonized pose tells of dinosaur death throes
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 07, 2007 |
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The peculiar pose of many fossilized dinosaurs, with wide-open mouth, head thrown back and recurved tail, likely resulted from the agonized death throes typical of brain damage and asphyxiation, according ...
Unique microgravity tower attracts global scientific community
Jun 07, 2007 |
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Scientists from NASA, Europe and Australia will beat a path to Queensland University of Technology’s Carseldine campus when the southern hemisphere’s only microgravity tower is completed later this year.
Cannabinoids produced in the human body have an anti-inflammatory effect
Jun 07, 2007 |
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Endocannabinoids seem to play an important role in regulating inflammation processes. Scientists from the University of Bonn have discovered this in experiments on mice. Their results will be published in the distinguished ...
Researchers Develop New Nanomaterials to Deliver Anticancer Drugs to Kill Cancer Cells
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jun 07, 2007 |
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Researchers at UCLA have successfully manipulated nanomaterials to create a new drug-delivery system that promises to solve the challenge of the poor water solubility of today’s most promising anticancer drugs ...
Strengthening nanotube fluorescence
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 07, 2007 |
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In a way, nanotubes are nature's smallest candles. These tiny tubes are constructed from carbon atoms and they are so small that it takes about 100,000 laid side-by-side to span the width of a single human ...
Search for life in space getting closer
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 07, 2007 |
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Scientists in Britain say they are making remarkable advances in the search for life in other solar systems, though results are more than a decade off.
Ancient DNA traces the woolly mammoth's disappearance
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Some ancient-DNA evidence has offered new clues to a very cold case: the disappearance of the last woolly mammoths, one of the most iconic of all Ice Age giants, according to a June 7th report published online in Current Bi ...
Birds, Bees, and Moths Drive Flower Evolution
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Jun 07, 2007 |
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Flowers evolve in a predictable fashion to match the mouthparts of pollinating birds and insects, rather than engaging in a gradual "arms race" between flower and pollinator, according to a new study by researchers ...
Excitons play peek-a-boo on carbon nanotubes
Jun 07, 2007 |
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In the quantum world, photons and electrons dance, bump and carry out transactions that govern everything we see in the world around us. In this week's issue of Science, French and U.S. scientists describe a new technique ...
Margin for profit in petrol prices no error, says economist
Jun 07, 2007 |
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A University of Western Sydney economist says there is no doubt who benefits from any increase in petrol prices - especially when it comes to long weekends.
Surgery by satellite -- New possibilities at medicine's cutting edge
Jun 07, 2007 |
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Robotic surgery may be coming to your town. Robots that perform surgery can be driven by surgeons who no longer stand by the patient, but direct the operation from a computer console. In most cases the surgeon is seated ...
High self-esteem may be culturally universal, international study shows
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 07, 2007 |
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The notion that East Asians, Japanese in particular, are self-effacing and have low self-esteem compared to Americans may well describe the surface view of East Asian personality, but misses the picture revealed by recently ...
Research probes seniors' plans for end-of-life care
Jun 07, 2007 |
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As a brain-damaged woman named Terri Schiavo lived her final days in 2005, her family's bitter feuding imparted a tragic lesson about the importance of specifying one's wishes for end-of-life medical treatment.
