Yellowstone rising: Volcano inflating with molten rock at record rate
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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The Yellowstone “supervolcano” rose at a record rate since mid-2004, likely because a Los Angeles-sized, pancake-shaped blob of molten rock was injected 6 miles beneath the slumbering giant, University of ...
Smile, protons, you're on camera
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Radioactivity, discovered more than 100 years ago and studied by physicists ever since, would seem to be a relatively closed subject in science. However, since the 1960s, the pursuit of at least one open ...
Scientists link mysterious highest-energy cosmic rays with violent black holes
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Scientists of the Pierre Auger Collaboration announced today (Nov. 8) that active galactic nuclei are the most likely candidate for the source of the highest-energy cosmic rays that hit Earth. Using the Pierre ...
Roots of Fundamentalism traced to 16th-century Bible translations
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The English Reformation—heyday of religious change—spurred a fundamentalist approach to Bible reading, according to new research by a Harvard professor.
Researchers identify natural herbicide that controls weeds around some common lawn grasses
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Certain varieties of common fescue lawn grass come equipped with their own natural broad-spectrum herbicide that inhibits the growth of weeds and other plants around them.
Could vitamin D, a key milk nutrient, affect how you age?
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There is a new reason for the 76 million baby boomers to grab a glass of milk. Vitamin D, a key nutrient in milk, could have aging benefits linked to reduced inflammation, according to a new study published in the American Jo ...
Paying peanuts for clean water
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Peanut husks, one of the biggest food industry waste products, could be used to extract environmentally damaging copper ions from waste water, according to researchers in Turkey. Writing in the Inderscience publication the ...
Energy From Hot Rocks
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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Two UC Davis geologists are taking part in the Iceland Deep Drilling Project, an international effort to learn more about the potential of geothermal energy, or extracting heat from rocks.
AMD Delivers First Stream Processor with Double Precision Floating Point Technology
Nov 08, 2007 |
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AMD today announced the AMD FireStream 9170 Stream Processor and an accompanying Software Development Kit (SDK) designed to harness the massive parallel processing power of the graphics processing unit (GPU).
Mining Tiny Diamonds for Drug Delivery
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Nov 08, 2007 |
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Northwestern University researchers have shown that nanodiamonds are effective at delivering chemotherapy drugs to cells without the negative effects associated with current drug delivery agents. Their study, published in ...
Which is the most talkative gender? It all depends
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 08, 2007 |
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A Gallup poll recently confirmed that men and women both believe that it is women who are most likely to possess the gift of gab. Some even believe that women are biologically built for conversation. This widespread belief ...
Mitochondria send death signal to cardiac cells, study shows
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Scientists have determined how cardiac cells die just as emergency treatments restore blood flow to a heart in distress, a paradox that has long puzzled doctors who are able to relieve pain in patients suffering from blocked ...
Stars well-endowed with gold have fewer companions
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The chequered destinies of Australian Idol winners underscores what astronomers have known for a long time – star formation is complicated.
Research studies ozone, good and bad
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 08, 2007 |
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Depending on its altitude, ozone can be either friend or foe. Thanks to new research led by The University of Western Ontario, scientists will now have a better understanding of ozone, its origin and the role – good or bad ...
Religion and psychology: Can they work together?
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
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According to the CIA World Fact Book, an overwhelming majority, 90 percent of Americans, claim a particular religious affiliation.
