Room temperature superconductivity: One step closer to the Holy Grail of physics
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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
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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 ...
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 ...
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.
Why musicians make us weep and computers don't
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Music can soothe the savage breast much better if played by musicians rather than clever computers, according to a new University of Sussex-led study published in the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE.
Big brains arose twice in higher primates
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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 ...
Helium Balloon in Paris Displays Air Pollution Levels
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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 ...
Flatfish fossils fill in evolutionary missing link
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
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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 ...
Money makes the heart grow less fond... but more hardworking
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
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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 ...
Early earthquake warning: New tools show promise
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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Using remarkably sensitive new instruments, seismologists have detected minute geological changes that preceded small earthquakes along California's famed San Andreas Fault by as much as 10 hours.
Seeing the universe through gamma-ray eyes
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The scientists have stopped holding their breath. Three weeks after the launch of the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), researchers from Stanford University, the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and elsewhere ...
Study Puts Solar Spin on Asteroids, their Moons & Earth Impacts
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
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Asteroids with moons, which scientists call binary asteroids, are common in the solar system. A longstanding question has been how the majority of such moons are formed. In this week's issue of the journal ...
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 ...
Fossil feathers preserve evidence of color
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The traces of organic material found in fossil feathers are remnants of pigments that once gave birds their color, according to Yale scientists whose paper in Biology Letters opens up the potential to dep ...
Keeping hands where you can see 'em alters perception, study finds
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
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Psychologists at Washington University in St. Louis, led by Richard A. Abrams, Ph.D., professor of psychology in Arts & Sciences, have shown that to see objects better, you should take the matter into your ...
