'It might be life Jim...', physicists discover inorganic dust with life-like qualities
Aug 09, 2007 |
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Could extraterrestrial life be made of corkscrew-shaped particles of interstellar dust? Intriguing new evidence of life-like structures that form from inorganic substances in space are revealed today in the New Journal of ...
Research shows skeleton to be endocrine organ
Aug 09, 2007 |
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Bones are typically thought of as calcified, inert structures, but researchers at Columbia University Medical Center have now identified a surprising and critically important novel function of the skeleton. ...
Ideally Ordered Nanohole Patterned Media Enables Capacity Potential to 1.2TB for 2.5'' HDD
Aug 09, 2007 |
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Fujitsu today announced the results of a joint collaboration by Yamagata Fujitsu Limited, Fujitsu Laboratories Limited, and Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology to create ideally “ordered” alumina nanohole patterned ...
X-ray images help explain limits to insect body size
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Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have cast new light on why the giant insects that lived millions of years ago disappeared.
What we can learn from the biggest extinction in the history of Earth
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 09, 2007 |
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Approximately 250 million years ago, vast numbers of species disappeared from Earth. This mass-extinction event may hold clues to current global carbon cycle changes, according to Jonathan Payne, assistant professor of geological ...
Physicists Take a Trip to Nuclear 'Island of Inversion'
Aug 09, 2007 |
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Far from the everyday world occupied by such common elements such as gold and lead lies a little-understood realm inhabited by radioactive, or unstable, elements. Recently, a nuclear physicist from Florida ...
Mixing Electricity and Water
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Every hair dryer in America is tagged with a large warning label not to use it near water for one obvious reason: mixing the two could result in electrocution and even death. But did you know that it is not ...
One of Deep Ocean's Most Turbulent Areas Has Big Impact on Climate
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 09, 2007 |
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More than a mile beneath the Atlantic’s surface, roughly halfway between New York and Portugal, seawater rushing through the narrow gullies of an underwater mountain range much as winds gust between a city’s ...
Scientists produce functioning neurons from human embryonic stem cells
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Scientists with the Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Medicine at UCLA were able to produce from human embryonic stem cells a highly pure, large quantity of functioning neurons that will allow them to create models of and ...
Physicist opens new window on glass puzzle
Aug 09, 2007 |
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When most people look at a window, they see solid panes of glass, but for decades, physicists have pondered the mysteries of window glass: Is glass a solid, or merely an extremely slow moving liquid" An Emory University research ...
Ultra-strong, flexible nanofiber-based 'paper' step closer to commercialization
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 09, 2007 |
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Groundbreaking research at the University of Arkansas is one step closer to commercialization. Intellectual Property Partners LLC, an Atlanta company that turns promising technologies into profitable ventures for the business ...
Arctic climate study reveals impact of industrial soot
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Scientists from the Desert Research Institute (DRI) and their collaborators have determined that Northern Hemisphere industrial pollution resulted in a seven-fold increase in black carbon (soot) in Arctic ...
Researchers find culprit in aging muscles that heal poorly
Aug 09, 2007 |
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Communication is critical. Garbled in, garbled out, so to (mis-)speak. Workers who get incomplete instructions produce an incomplete product, and that's exactly what happens with the stem cells in our aging muscles, according ...
Render smoke and fog without being a computation hog
Technology / Computer Sciences
Aug 09, 2007 |
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Computer scientists from UC San Diego have developed a way to generate images like smoke-filled bars, foggy alleys and smog-choked cityscapes without the computational drag and slow speed of previous computer ...
Astronomers Spot Brightest Galaxies in the Distant Universe
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By combining the capabilities of several telescopes, astronomers have spotted extremely bright galaxies hiding in the distant, young universe. The newfound galaxies are intrinsically bright due to their large ...
