Controlling the Size of Nanoclusters: First Step in Making New Catalysts
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Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University have developed a new instrument that allows them to control the size of nanoclusters — groups of 10 ...
Artificial intelligence takes home the pot at the poker table
Technology / Computer Sciences
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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, ...
Coal-generated CO2 captured in Australia -- a first
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In a first for Australia, carbon dioxide (CO2) has been captured from power station flue gases in a post-combustion-capture (PCC) pilot plant at Loy Yang Power Station in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley.
Do we think that machines can think?
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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 ...
Ionophore reverses Alzheimer's within days in mouse models
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Scientists report a remarkable improvement in Alzheimer's transgenic mice following treatment with a new drug. The study, published by Cell Press in the July 10th issue of the journal Neuron, provides the first demonstration that a ...
Ocean Wind Power Maps Reveal Possible Wind Energy Sources
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 09, 2008 |
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Efforts to harness the energy potential of Earth's ocean winds could soon gain an important new tool: global satellite maps from NASA. Scientists have been creating maps using nearly a decade of data from ...
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 ...
Researchers find new mode of gene regulation in mammals
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Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have discovered a type of gene regulation never before observed in mammals--a "ribozyme" that controls the activity of an important family of genes ...
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 ...
A 'red flag' for expanding biofuels in the tropics
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Biofuels, by recycling atmospheric carbon, are a potential boon to the world's ailing climate. But efforts in the tropics to significantly expand biofuel production by replacing tropical forests with oil palm, sugarcane and ...
Verbally aggressive mothers direct their children's behavior
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A new study in Human Communication Research reveals that verbally aggressive mothers tend to control their children's choice of activities as well as use physical negative touch, along with directives, when trying to alter ...
Orbiter's HiRISE Camera Saw Phoenix Heat Shield in Freefall on Landing Day
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 09, 2008 |
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Scientists running the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, known as HiRISE, on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have processed more details in an amazing image their camera captured as the Phoenix ...
Molecular motor works by detecting minute changes in force
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine discovered that the activity of a specific family of nanometer-sized molecular motors called myosin-I is regulated by force. The motor puts tension on cellular ...
Researchers uncover benefits of aspirin for treating osteoporosis
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Researchers at the University of Southern California, School of Dentistry have uncovered the health benefits of aspirin in the fight against osteoporosis. Forty-four million Americans, 68 percent of whom are women, suffer ...
Will our future brains be smaller?
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The speed at which we react to threatening situations can have life or death implications. In the more primitive past, it could have meant escaping a wild animal; today it might mean swerving to avoid a head-on ...
