Scientists enhance Mother Nature's carbon handling mechanism
Nov 07, 2007 |
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Taking a page from Nature herself, a team of researchers developed a method to enhance removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and place it in the Earth's oceans for storage.
Why dinosaurs had fowl breath
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Nov 07, 2007 |
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Scientists have discovered how dinosaurs used to breathe in what provides clues to how they evolved and how they might have lived.
Direct gaze makes you more attractive
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 07, 2007 |
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Looking directly at someone makes you more attractive to them according to research published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, today (Wednesday 7 November, 2007).
Internet at warp speed, captain!
Nov 07, 2007 |
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The ultra-high data speeds possible on optical fibre networks will only come into their own when the fibres reach the last mile into everyone’s home. But that will require miniaturisation and integration of ...
La Niña Persists
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 07, 2007 |
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The tropical Pacific Ocean remains in the grips of a cool La Niña, as shown by new data of sea-level heights from mid-October of 2007, collected by the U.S-French Jason altimetric satellite.
Key to False Memories Uncovered
Nov 07, 2007 |
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Duke University Medical Center neuroscientists say the places a memory is processed in the brain may determine how someone can be absolutely certain of a past event that never occurred.
Flytrap-Inspired Lenses May Lead to New Materials for Adhesives, Optics, Coatings
Nov 07, 2007 |
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Imagine paint that adheres to a surface but releases on command, or road signs that change their reflectivity with changing weather conditions. These are two potential uses of a novel, responsive material designed by researchers ...
Simple tips can help keep your home warm this winter
Nov 07, 2007 |
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As winter weather approaches, there are a few simple and effective steps homeowners can take to keep the warmth in and the winter out, says a Purdue University energy expert.
LHC completes the circle
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At a brief ceremony deep under the French countryside today, CERN Director General Robert Aymar sealed the last interconnect in the world’s largest cryogenic system, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). This is the latest milestone ...
Novel Nanostructure Response Opens Possibilities for Electrical Devices
Nov 07, 2007 |
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A University of Arkansas physicist and her colleagues have examined dielectric susceptibilities of nanostructures (that is the response of their polarization to electric fields) and found novel, seemingly contradictory properties ...
University of Tokyo Expands Second Life Type Games
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A team of undisclosed researchers at the University of Tokyo have a prototype in development that will bring the public one step closer to entering the Virtual World.
Further evidence that genetics has a role in determining sexual orientation in men
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Is sexual orientation something people are born with - like the colour of their skin and eyes - or a matter of choice?
Scientists compare 12 fruit fly genomes
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In one of the first large-scale comparisons of multiple animal genomes, scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT, and ...
Surviving pioneer lemurs celebrate a decade in the rain forest
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Sarph lives. He's nearly 15 years old, and he knows where the predators lurk, where to find food, and how to make a baby with his wild-born mate.
When animals evolve on islands, size doesn't matter
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A theory explaining the evolution of giant rodents, miniature elephants, and even miniature humans on islands has been called into questions by new research published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: ...
