New NASA Satellite Survey Reveals Dramatic Arctic Sea Ice Thinning
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Arctic sea ice thinned dramatically between the winters of 2004 and 2008, with thin seasonal ice replacing thick older ice as the dominant type for the first time on record. The new results, ...
High-tech imaging reveals hidden past in ancient texts
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jul 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It might simply look like a smudge, but even the slightest stain on the ancient writing surface of papyrus could obscure a revelation of a past civilization. Now, with the advent of high-tech imaging, some ...
Augmented Reality: Science Fiction or Reality? (w/ Video)
Jul 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer graphics have come a long way since the birth of Atari Games over 30 years ago. Today, computer graphics seem very real and some day researchers will pull graphics out of your television ...
Building a stellar time machine
Jul 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Harvard researchers are building a celestial time machine that lets astronomers look back at hundreds of thousands of objects in the Earth’s skies over the past century.
The Amazon River is 11 million years old
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 07, 2009 |
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The Amazon River originated as a transcontinental river around 11 million years ago and took its present shape approximately 2.4 million years ago. These are the most significant results of a study on two ...
World's first as fuel cell aircraft takes off in Germany
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The world's first piloted aircraft capable of taking to the air using only power from fuel cells took off in Germany Tuesday, producing zero carbon dioxide emissions, its makers said.
Physicists find way to control individual bits in quantum computers
Jul 07, 2009 |
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Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have overcome a hurdle in quantum computer development, having devised a viable way to manipulate a single "bit" in a quantum processor without ...
'Flexible camera' replaces lens with fiber web
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine a soldier's uniform made of a special fabric that allows him to look in all directions and identify threats that are to his side or even behind him. In work that could turn such science ...
Astronomers reveal a 'blue whale of space'
Jul 07, 2009 |
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CSIRO astronomers have revealed the hidden face of an enormous galaxy called Centaurus A, which emits a radio glow covering an area 200 times bigger than the full Moon.
Robo-bats with metal muscles may be next generation of remote control flyers
Jul 07, 2009 |
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Tiny flying machines can be used for everything from indoor surveillance to exploring collapsed buildings, but simply making smaller versions of planes and helicopters doesn't work very well. Instead, researchers ...
Could a quantum motor do work?
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Ever since the idea of a quantum world was discovered, physicists have been trying their best to create applications and uses that mirror the accomplishments of the classical world. However, due to the fact ...
What On Earth Is Driving the Melodramatic, Histrionic Michael Jackson Coverage?
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jul 07, 2009 |
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The 24-7, wall-to-wall press coverage of the life, death, music, clothing, vitiligo, sex life, "dearest friends" and plastic surgeries of musician Michael Jackson raises the question, "What the heck is going on?"
Mystery of bat with an extraordinary nose solved
Jul 07, 2009 |
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A research paper co-written by a Virginia Tech faculty member explains a 60-year mystery behind a rare bat's nose that is unusually large for its species. The findings soon will be published in the scientific ...
Light-absorbing nanowires may make better solar panels
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A century after German physicist Gustav Mie derived the math to explain why the colors in some stained glass windows look especially resplendent in the sunlight, a team of Stanford engineers ...
The surprising effect of cannabis on morphine dependence
Jul 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Injections of THC, the active principle of cannabis, eliminate dependence on opiates (morphine, heroin) in rats deprived of their mothers at birth. This has been shown by a study carried out ...
