Scientists reveal fate of Earth's oceans
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 10, 2006 |
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Scientists at The University of Manchester have uncovered the first evidence of seawater deep inside the Earth shedding new light on the fate of the planet's oceans, according to research published in Nature this week (May 1 ...
Pursuing the Invisible with Einstein's Lens
May 10, 2006 |
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"I could not go abroad in snow, it would settle on me and expose me. Rain, too, would make me a watery outline, a glistening surface of a man -- a bubble."
- from "The Invisible Man" by H.G. Wells
Scientists unlock more secrets of HIV and SARS
May 10, 2006 |
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UK scientists have cracked one of the key biological processes used by viruses such as HIV and SARS when they replicate according to a paper published in the journal Nature tomorrow (11 May). Viruses are ab ...
Earth is safe from gamma-ray bursts, Hubble finds
May 10, 2006 |
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A gamma-ray burst (GRB) occurring in our own galaxy could decimate life on Earth, destroying the ozone layer, triggering climate change and drastically altering life’s evolution. However, the good news is that ...
100-to-1 Bandwidth: New Planar Design Allows Fabrication of Ultra Wideband Phased Array Antennas
May 10, 2006 |
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By taking advantage of a phenomenon that earlier designers had struggled to avoid, engineers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) have developed a new approach to phased-array antenna design that could ...
New capture scenario explains origin of Neptune's oddball moon Triton
May 10, 2006 |
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Neptune's large moon Triton may have abandoned an earlier partner to arrive in its unusual orbit around Neptune. Triton is unique among all the large moons in the solar system because it orbits Neptune in a direction opposite ...
Briton claims new Svalbard island
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 10, 2006 |
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A British artist believes he has found a new island in the arctic Svalbard archipelago and has claimed sovereignty to create his own mini-state.
World's tiniest test tubes get teensiest corks
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
May 10, 2006 |
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Now all they need is a really, really small corkscrew. Like Lilliputian chemists, scientists have found a way to “cork” infinitesimally small nano test tubes. The goal is a better way to deliver drugs, for ...
U.S., British hackers face the music
May 10, 2006 |
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Only two days after U.S. federal authorities sentenced a 21-year-old to five years in prison for hacking computers, the British government ruled that one of its citizens should be extradited to the United States for hacking ...
Nanotechnology shows early promise to treat cardiovascular disease
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
May 10, 2006 |
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A new tactic in the battle against cardiovascular disease – employing nanoengineered molecules called "nanolipoblockers" as frontline infantry against harmful cholesterol – is showing promise in early laboratory studies at ...
Nano World: $30 billion in nano goods
May 10, 2006 |
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Emerging nanotechnology made its way into more than $30 billion in manufactured goods in 2005, more than double the year before, experts tell UPI's Nano World.
Monster Hurricanes: Questioning Linkage between Severe Hurricanes and Global Warming
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 10, 2006 |
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New research calls into question the linkage between major Atlantic hurricanes and global warming. That is one of the conclusions from a University of Virginia study to appear in the May 10, 2006 issue of the journal Geophysical Re ...
Bird Flu Drama - Can It Happen?
May 10, 2006 |
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The TV movie "Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America " raised questions about the U.S. ability to handle a pandemic. C. Ed Hsu , an expert in public health emergency preparedness for disease and bioterrorism and assistant professor ...
EPA accused of ignoring sewage chemicals
May 10, 2006 |
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U.S. scientists say tons of bacteria-killing chemicals are being released into the environment annually, possibly entering food and water supplies.
Megalithic rock art discovered in Anglesey
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 10, 2006 |
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Spectacular megalithic rock-art has been discovered within one of Britain’s most important Neolithic monuments and recorded by a team of archaeologists from the University of Bristol.
