Geologists Discover Origin of Earth's Mysterious Black Diamonds
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Jan 09, 2007 |
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If indeed "a diamond is forever," the most primitive origins of Earth's so-called black diamonds were in deep, universal time, geologists have discovered. Black diamonds came from none other than interstellar ...
Analogy of cochlea as resonator could lead to artificial copies
Jan 09, 2007 |
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In attempting to construct an artificial cochlea—and faced with limited knowledge of how the living chamber works—scientists might need to look no further than a simple electronic device: a surface acoustic ...
Seven or Eight Dwarf Galaxies Discovered Orbiting the Milky Way
Jan 09, 2007 |
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An international team of scientists has discovered seven -- and perhaps eight -- dwarf galaxies orbiting Earth's home galaxy, the Milky Way.
New study supports a stem cell origin of cancer
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Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) recently made significant strides toward settling a decades-old debate centering on the role played by stem cells in cancer development.
Earth's strongest winds wouldn't even be a breeze on these planets
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Earth's inhabitants are used to temperatures that vary, sometimes greatly, between day and night. New measurements for three planets outside our solar system indicate their temperatures remain fairly constant ...
Toshiba Announces 51GB Triple-Layer HD DVD-ROM Disc
Jan 09, 2007 |
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Toshiba Corporation today underlined the versatility and high capacity of the HD DVD format with the announcement that the company has developed a triple-layer HD DVD-ROM (read only) disc with a capacity of ...
Magellanic Clouds May Be Just Passing Through
Jan 09, 2007 |
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The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) are two of the Milky Way's closest neighboring galaxies. Both are visible only in the southern hemisphere. By studying their orbits, astronomers ...
Converting Nitrogen to a More Useful Form
Jan 09, 2007 |
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Nitrogen-containing organic compounds are important products as well as intermediates for many pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and chemicals used in electronics. Air contains plenty of nitrogen, but it is in a form that cannot ...
Turning green gunk to gold, anti-cancer gold
Jan 09, 2007 |
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Combining synthetic chemistry techniques with a knowledge of the properties and actions of enzymes, scientists have been able to produce an exciting class of anti-cancer drugs originally isolated from blue-green algae.
Metric Moon
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 09, 2007 |
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If you think in pounds and miles instead of kilograms and kilometers, you're in the minority. Only the United States, Liberia, and Burma still primarily use English units -- the rest of the world is metric. ...
Rethinking last century's closest, brightest supernova
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Twenty years ago next month, the closest and brightest supernova in four centuries lit up the southern sky, wowing astronomers and the public alike.
Famous Space Pillars Feel the Heat of Star's Explosion
Jan 09, 2007 |
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The three iconic space pillars photographed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 1995 might have met their demise, according to new evidence from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
Basic brain reading technology developed
Jan 09, 2007 |
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Technology that reads what people think by measuring changes in the brain's blood flow has been developed, said Japanese researchers.
Researchers warn milk eliminates cardiovascular health benefits of tea
Jan 09, 2007 |
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Research published on-line (Tuesday 9 January) in European Heart Journal has found that the protective effect that tea has on the cardiovascular system is totally wiped out by adding milk.
Superbubble of supernova remnants caught in act of forming
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A superbubble in space, caught in the act of forming, can help scientists better understand the life and death of massive stars, say researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
