Movement of North Magnetic Pole is accelerating
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After some 400 years of relative stability, Earth's North Magnetic Pole has moved nearly 1,100 kilometers out into the Arctic Ocean during the last century and at its present rate could move from northern Canada ...
Astronomers map dark matter in startling detail
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Clues revealed by the recently sharpened view of the Hubble Space Telescope have allowed astronomers to map the location of invisible "dark matter" in unprecedented detail in two very young galaxy clusters. ...
Forget Quantum Encryption, Simple Scheme Can Stop Electronic Eavesdroppers
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James Bond may use the fanciest, most expensive and high-tech devices to thwart would-be eavesdroppers, but in a pinch, the super-spy can use one Texas A&M engineer's simple, low-cost scheme to keep data secure ...
Physicists create first robust DNA building blocks
Dec 09, 2005 |
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Physicists from the University of Oxford have designed the first structurally robust, self-assembling DNA building blocks. The DNA tetrahedra, 10,000,000,000 (ten thousand million) of which could fit on the ...
NASA Prepares To Launch First Probe To The Kuiper Belt
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One hundred years ago, Dutch-American astronomer Gerard P. Kuiper was born in Harenscarpel, The Netherlands. Just over one month from now, NASA plans to launch its first mission, New Horizons, to study explore the fascinating ...
Global Warming Could Halt Ocean Circulation With Harmful Results
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Absent any climate policy, scientists have found a 70 percent chance of shutting down the thermohaline circulation in the North Atlantic Ocean over the next 200 years, with a 45 percent probability of this occurring in this ...
Prelude to an earthquake?
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A geophysicist from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has identified possible seismic precursors to two recent California earthquakes, including the 1989 Loma ...
Ames Lab physicist wins European Union's highest science prize
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Costas Soukoulis leads team that will share portion of 1 million euro Descartes Prizes Costas Soukoulis, a senior physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory and an Iowa State University Distinguished Pro ...
Report: Great Lakes deteriorating
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A coalition of environmental groups released a report in Washington saying the Great Lakes are deteriorating at an unprecedented rate.
Toshiba Develops MEMS Based Manipulation Technology for Injecting Nanoparticles in Cells
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Toshiba Corporation today announced the development of manipulation technology for injecting nanoparticles in cells by using subtle vibration generated by a micro electro mechanical system (MEMS)—a fruit of Toshiba's fusion ...
New, unique microscope for nanotech
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UC Davis researchers in nanotechnology, chemistry and biology now have access to one of the most advanced microscopes of its type in the world. The new Spectral Imaging Facility, opened this fall, is a combination of an atomic ...
Suburban ecosystems to be studied
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U.S. researchers are studying the ecosystems of the suburban enclave to determine the effects of lawns in global warming.
Study: Forest productivity hiked by CO2
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An Oak Ridge National Laboratory study in Tennessee suggests forest productivity may be significantly greater in an atmosphere enriched with carbon dioxide.
New Models of Weather Pattern
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For a mathematician, Joseph Biello spends a lot of time thinking about the weather. But the UC Davis assistant professor isn't looking out the office window. He is using mathematical theory to build a model of the Madden-Julian ...
Embryonic stem cells could treat millions
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British scientists say the stem cells taken from just 10 human embryos could supply suitable tissue to treat most of the U.K. population.
