The Physics of Friendship
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By comparing people to mobile particles randomly bouncing off each other, scientists have developed a new model for social networks. The model fits with empirical data to naturally reproduce the community ...
Saturn’s moon is source of solar system’s largest planetary ring
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Saturn's moon Enceladus is the source of Saturn's E-ring, confirms research published today. Writing in the journal Science, scientists show how a plume of icy water vapour bursting out of the South Pole o ...
Nano World: Nano origami supercapacitors
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Origami with features just nanometers or billionths of a meter large can fold into electrically chargeable supercapacitors, experts told UPI's Nano World.
India says no to Google Earth's peering
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Concerned over distinct satellite images of its strategic installations that Google makes available online, India has decided to mask some of the sensitive images itself.
To Pluto And Beyond
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The New Horizons mission launched on January 19, 2006, and in nine years it will fly by the planet Pluto and its moon Charon. After acquiring data and images of these distant objects, mission scientists hope ...
Wal-Mart to sell Verizon prepaid wireless
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Verizon Wireless further entrenched itself in the battle for prepaid wireless phone customers Thursday, announcing that their INpulse pay-as-you-go service is now available at all U.S. Wal-Mart stores.
New Hubble images show similar colors for Pluto's moons
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Using new Hubble Space Telescope observations, a research team led by Dr. Hal Weaver of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and Dr. Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute has found ...
Identifying gems and minerals on Earth and on Mars
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It'll be a snap to identify gemstones once Robert Downs finishes his library of spectral fingerprints for all the Earth's minerals. Downs is almost halfway there. So far, the associate professor of geosciences ...
Nanotech products a bit disappointing
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The products expected from nanotechnology are still very much in the future according to the first comprehensive inventory of nanoproducts out Friday.
Ecstasy causes depression in pigs
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Danish scientific experiments where Ecstasy was adminstered to pigs may help to explain depression in humans abusing the drug.
Mars orbiter makes a grab for red planet
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter was going through maneuvers to place itself into orbit around the red planet Friday, scientists in California said.
Wireless World: Stop, diamond thief!
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An aspiring diamond thief takes a job at a jewelry company's warehouse, surreptitiously planning to scam his employer out of some of its lucrative inventory over the coming months. It's apparently a common confidence trickster ...
'Hands free' isn't mind free: Performing even easy tasks impairs driving
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Do you think using a hands-free device makes it okay to talk on a cell phone while driving? Despite the well-intended laws requiring the use of hands-free devices, a driver's performance is impaired when distracted by even ...
Cell phones help track traffic flow
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An Israeli company says it has developed a system for managing traffic by tracking drivers' cell-phone signals.
Health concerns over Toronto WiFi plan
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Health officials in Toronto want to learn more about the potential impacts Toronto Hydro's planned citywide WiFi network might have on the citizenry.
