Looking for neutralinos at the Large Hadron Collider
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“We are looking at the heavens, and using the very biggest things to help up predict what will happen with the very smallest things,” David Toback tells PhysOrg.com. Toback is a professor at Texas A&M University in Colleg ...
Room temperature superconductivity: One step closer to the Holy Grail of physics
Jul 09, 2008 |
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Scientists at the University of Cambridge have for the first time identified a key component to unravelling the mystery of room temperature superconductivity, according to a paper published in today's edition of the scientific ...
Moon water discovered: Dampens Moon-formation theory
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 09, 2008 |
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Using new techniques, scientists have discovered for the first time that tiny beads of volcanic glasses collected from two Apollo missions to the Moon contain water. The researchers found that, contrary to ...
Helium Balloon in Paris Displays Air Pollution Levels
Jul 09, 2008 |
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People in Paris won't have to look far to see the city's air pollution levels. A giant tethered helium balloon will display real-time reports of atmospheric pollution using an innovative lighting system, which ...
Scientists learn how food affects the brain
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In addition to helping protect us from heart disease and cancer, a balanced diet and regular exercise can also protect the brain and ward off mental disorders.
UC San Diego Unveils Highest Resolution Scientific Display System in the World
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As the size of complex scientific data sets grows exponentially, so does the need for scientists to explore the data visually and collaboratively in ultra-high resolution environments. To that end, the California ...
Artificial intelligence takes home the pot at the poker table
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jul 09, 2008 |
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Last weekend, the best man at the table was a machine. Polaris, the University of Alberta poker playing computer program, took on professional players in Las Vegas and came out on top. Like last year's challenge, ...
Nanomaterials Key to New Strategies for Blocking Metastasis
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jul 09, 2008 |
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A new treatment strategy using targeted nanoparticles to block metastasis with anti-cancer drugs leads to good results using significantly lower doses of toxic chemotherapy, with less collateral damage to surrounding tissue, ...
Big brains arose twice in higher primates
Biology /
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After taking a fresh look at an old fossil, John Flynn, Frick Curator of Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History, and colleagues determined that the brains of the ancestors of modern Neotropical ...
Scientists reveal key structure from ebola virus
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Described in the July 10, 2008 issue of the journal Nature, the research reveals the shape of the Ebola virus spike protein, which is necessary for viral entry into human cells, bound to an immune system antibody acting to neu ...
Money makes the heart grow less fond... but more hardworking
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 09, 2008 |
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Money is a necessity: it provides us with material objects that are important for survival and for entertainment, and it is often used as a reward. But recent studies have shown that money is not only a device for gaining ...
Flatfish fossils fill in evolutionary missing link
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 09, 2008 |
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Hidden away in museums for more that 100 years, some recently rediscovered flatfish fossils have filled a puzzling gap in the story of evolution and answered a question that initially stumped even Charles ...
Researchers Create Enhanced Light Sources For Lithography
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A breakthrough discovery at UC San Diego may help aid the semiconductor industry’s quest to squeeze more information on chips to accelerate the performance of electronic devices. So far, the semiconductor ...
Pandemic mutations in bird flu revealed
Jul 09, 2008 |
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Scientists have discovered how bird flu adapts in patients, offering a new way to monitor the disease and prevent a pandemic, according to research published in the August issue of the Journal of General Virology. Highly ...
Do we think that machines can think?
Jul 09, 2008 |
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When our PC goes on strike again we tend to curse it as if it was a human. The question of why and under what circumstances we attribute human-like properties to machines and how such processes manifest on a cortical level ...
