A New Reflection in the Mirror
Jan 10, 2007 |
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A research group has devised a new type of mirror that reverses the magnetic field of a light wave upon reflection, rather than its electric field, as regular mirrors do. Seems like a minor difference? It's ...
Research Continues for Deep Space Travel Propulsion
Jan 10, 2007 |
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Graduate students and faculty researchers at The University of Alabama in Huntsville are investigating propulsion concepts that could eventually revolutionize deep space travel.
Research into procrastination shows surprising findings
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 10, 2007 |
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A University of Calgary professor in the Haskayne School of Business has recently published his magnum opus on the subject of procrastination – and it's only taken him 10 years.
Chandra Discovers Light Echo from the Milky Way's Black Hole
Jan 10, 2007 |
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Like cold case investigators, astronomers have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to uncover evidence of a powerful outburst from the giant black hole at the Milky Way's center.
Marine bacteria can create environmentally friendly energy source
Biology /
Jan 10, 2007 |
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Bacteria in the world’s oceans can efficiently exploit solar energy to grow, thanks to a unique light-capturing pigment. This discovery was made by researchers at University of Kalmar in Sweden, in collaboration with researchers ...
New findings blow a decade of assumptions out of the water
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 10, 2007 |
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The Atlantic Ocean doesn't receive the mother lode of fixed nitrogen, the building block of life, after all. Instead, comparing fathom for fathom, the Pacific and Indian oceans experience twice the amount of nitrogen fixing ...
Radiation degrades nuclear waste-containing materials faster than expected
Jan 10, 2007 |
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Minerals intended to entrap nuclear waste for hundreds of thousands of years may be susceptible to structural breakdown within 1,400 years, a team from the University of Cambridge and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory ...
Chemists Make Molecular Rings in Shape of King Solomon's Knot
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jan 10, 2007 |
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UCLA chemists have made, at the nanoscale, a molecular compound of interlocked rings that has the shape of the ancient King Solomon's knot, a symbol of wisdom that is thousands of years old and is widely used ...
Scientists discover stage at which an embryonic cell is fated to become a stem cell
Jan 10, 2007 |
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Cambridge scientists have discovered the stage at which some of the cells of a fertilised mammalian egg are fated to develop into stem cells and why this occurs. The findings of the study, which overturn the long-held belief ...
A hot idea for insulating tiny batteries
Jan 10, 2007 |
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Engineering physics researchers are devising a unique "blanket" that will enable them to squeeze as much electricity as possible from nuclear-powered batteries the size of a grain of coarse salt.
100 percent contamination of Euro notes with Cocaine
Jan 10, 2007 |
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An ongoing research project into the detection of illicit drug use has shown that of a sample of bank notes in current circulation in the greater Dublin area - €5, €10, €20 and €50 denominations - 100% of them showed contamination ...
Interactive binary stars show signs of induced hyperactivity
Jan 10, 2007 |
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Astronomers studying highly energetic binary stars called polars have obtained the first observational evidence that the intense magnetic fields produced by the white dwarf half of the interacting pair can ...
Astronomers find the most distant star clusters hidden behind a nearby cluster
Jan 10, 2007 |
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Astronomers have discovered the most distant population of star clusters ever seen, hidden behind one of the nearest such clusters to Earth. At a distance of more than a billion light-years, the newly discovered ...
Large Survey Identifies Young Binaries To Test Models Of Star Formation
Jan 10, 2007 |
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Results from the largest survey of its kind conducted at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii provide data to test theories describing how small, relatively cool, but numerous "M-class" stars are born and change ...
Homer's ancient Ithaca may not be Ithaki
Jan 10, 2007 |
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The home of Greek king and Homeric warrior Odysseus may be a peninsula of Kefalonia, not Ithaki, as previously thought, British history sleuths said.
