Before the Big Bang: A Twin Universe?
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Until very recently, asking what happened at or before the Big Bang was considered by physicists to be a religious question. General relativity theory just doesn’t go there – at T=0, it spews out zeros, infinities, ...
Rocket Mystery Explained With New Imaging Technique
Apr 09, 2008 |
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There’s a strange wave phenomenon that’s plagued rocket scientists for years, a lurking threat with the power to destroy an engine at almost any time. For decades, scientists have had a limited understanding ...
New rocky planet found in constellation Leo
Apr 09, 2008 |
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Spanish and UCL (University College London) scientists have discovered a possible terrestrial-type planet orbiting a star in the constellation of Leo. The new planet, which lies at a distance of 30 light years from the Earth, ...
Carbon nanotubes made into conductive, flexible 'stained glass'
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 09, 2008 |
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Carbon nanotubes are promising materials for many high-technology applications due to their exceptional mechanical, thermal, chemical, optical and electrical properties.
How sweet it is: 'Revolutionary' process points to sugar-fueled cars
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Chemists are describing development of a “revolutionary” process for converting plant sugars into hydrogen, which could be used to cheaply and efficiently power vehicles equipped with hydrogen fuel cells without ...
Why the dating game is taken at face value
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 09, 2008 |
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Suitors can tell a young person’s attitude to sexual relationships by the look on their face, according to new research which gives deeper insight into mate attractiveness.
Unraveling the Mercury mystery: Boldly going where no one has gone before
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 09, 2008 |
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Twelve years ago Sean Solomon put a proposal in front of NASA to develop the first probe to orbit Mercury. His tenacity has finally paid off. Three months ago his spacecraft, named Messenger (Mercury surface, ...
Potential drug target identified for diabetes by studying novel gut-brain-liver circuit
Apr 09, 2008 |
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Scientists at the Toronto General Hospital Research Institute have discovered a novel signaling pathway between three organs – the gut, the brain, and the liver – which lowers blood sugar when activated.
Researchers close in on origins of main ingredient of Alzheimer's plaques
Apr 09, 2008 |
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The ability of brain cells to take in substances from their surface is essential to the production of a key ingredient in Alzheimer's brain plaques, neuroscientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis ...
Dietary oil may need help in avoiding any side effects of weight loss
Apr 09, 2008 |
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An oil made of natural fatty acids that is sometimes used as a weight-loss supplement may need to be paired with hormones or other substances to prevent health problems that can follow rapid weight loss, a new study suggests.
Professor warns against tight bras
Apr 09, 2008 |
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A Swedish medical professor says young women shouldn't start wearing bras too early or they might develop sagging breasts.
The largest synthesized telescope in Europe doubles its surface
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The 100m Radio Telescope Effelsberg enters operations of the e-EVN network, enhancing its sensitivity to detect the radio sky providing the sharpest images in nearby real time. The European radio interferometric ...
Study says back pain may be in your genes
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What do you learn by looking at the spines of hundreds of Finnish twins? If you are the international team of researchers behind the Twin Spine Study, you find compelling proof that back pain problems may be more a matter ...
Probing Question: What are Shooting Stars?
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 09, 2008 |
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In the early morning darkness on April 15, 1912, as the R.M.S. Titanic was sinking in the freezing Atlantic, survivors witnessed a large number of streaking lights in the sky, which many believed to be the ...
MRO Spacecraft Images Mars Moon in Color and in 3D
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 09, 2008 |
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A new stereo view of Phobos, the larger and inner of Mars' two tiny moons, has been captured by a NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars.
