Spinning black hole leaves dent in space-time
Jan 10, 2006 |
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MIT scientists and colleagues have found a black hole that has chiseled a remarkably stable indentation in the fabric of space and time, like a dimple in one's favorite spot on the sofa.
'Sirius' secrets, serious cash
Jan 10, 2006 |
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Shock Jock Howard Stern kicked off his first satellite radio show Monday morning, satisfying many of his fans with his intended segment and cliff-hanger "Revelations."
Protecting Your Computer: Part 2 - Firewalls
Jan 10, 2006 |
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by Philip Dunn [ Part 1 ] While rather new to computing in comparison to antivirus programs, in today’s Internet connected world firewalls are actually more important. ...
Practice Makes Deadly Perfection, Suicide Researcher Says
Jan 10, 2006 |
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Every year, close to 1 million people around the world kill themselves. Florida State University Bright-Burton Professor of Psychology Thomas Joiner has spent much of his career trying to find out why.
Astronomers Provide New Insights Into Massive Black Hole Surroundings at Center of the Milky Way
Jan 10, 2006 |
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UCLA astronomers can determine, for the first time, orbits of massive young stars located a few light months from the enormous black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy — stars that hold an imprint of ...
Magnetism flicks switch on 'dark excitons'
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Jan 10, 2006 |
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Tests at leading magnetic labs shed light on nanotube mystery In new experimental research appearing in this week's issue of Physical Review Letters, a Rice University-led team of nanoscientists and electrical engineers has ...
Scientists ready to crack bird flu code
Jan 10, 2006 |
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British scientists say they will determine the genetic sequence of the bird flu virus in Turkey within the next few days.
Astronomers report mysterious giant star clusters
Jan 10, 2006 |
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An international team of astronomers reported evidence for the formation of mysterious "super star clusters" Jan. 9 at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington, D.C. These star ...
Researchers confirm role of massive flood in climate change
Jan 10, 2006 |
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Climate modelers at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) have succeeded in reproducing the climate changes caused by a massive freshwater pulse into the North Atlantic that occurred at the beginning of the current ...
China develops magnetic levitation train
Jan 10, 2006 |
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Chinese engineers have developed a medium- to low-speed magnetic levitation train that travels 93 miles an hour.
NASA Had No Choice But To Buy Soyuz Flights
Jan 10, 2006 |
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NASA's announcement last week that it will pay Roskosmos $43.6 million for a round-trip ride to the International Space Station this spring, and an equivalent figure for an as-yet-undetermined number of future flights to ...
Engineers Develop New Way to Tailor Polymer Coatings
Jan 10, 2006 |
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Which polymer coating works best on contact lenses and which is more appropriate for the creation of artificial organs via tissue engineering? In the past the process for selecting the correct structure was ...
In Bacterial Diversity, Amazon Is A 'Desert'; Desert Is An 'Amazon'
Jan 10, 2006 |
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Ironically, in the diversity of soil bacteria, the otherwise species-rich Amazon is a more like a desert, while the arid desert is a teeming microbial Amazon, researchers have found. Their first-ever continental-scale genetic ...
Public to look for dust grains in Stardust detectors
Jan 10, 2006 |
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Astronomy buffs who jumped at the chance to use their home computers in the SETI@home search for intelligent life in the universe will soon be able to join an Internet-based search for dust grains originating ...
AMD Releases Athlon 64 FX-60 Dual-Core Processor
Jan 10, 2006 |
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AMD today announced the availability of the AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 dual-core processor, the ultimate processor for PC enthusiasts.
