Numbers follow a surprising law of digits, and scientists can't explain why
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Does your house address start with a 1? According to a strange mathematical law, about 1/3 of house numbers have 1 as their first digit. The same holds true for many other areas that have almost nothing in ...
A galactic fossil: Star is found to be 13.2 billion years old
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How old are the oldest stars" Using ESO's VLT, astronomers recently measured the age of a star located in our Galaxy. The star, a real fossil, is found to be 13.2 billion years old, not very far from the 13.7 ...
Radical engine redesign would reduce pollution, oil consumption
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Researchers have created the first computational model to track engine performance from one combustion cycle to the next for a new type of engine that could dramatically reduce oil consumption and the emission ...
The longest carbon nanotubes you've ever seen
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 10, 2007 |
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Using techniques that could revolutionize manufacturing for certain materials, researchers have grown carbon nanotubes that are the longest in the world. While still slightly less than 2 centimeters long, ...
Mission Could Seek Out Spock's Home Planet
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Science fiction may soon become science fact. Astronomers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have recently concluded that the upcoming planet-finding mission, SIM PlanetQuest, would be able to detect an Earth-like ...
Bat flight generates complex aerodynamic tracks
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Bats generate a measurably distinct aerodynamic footprint to achieve lift and maneuverability, quite unlike birds and contrary to many of the assumptions that aerodynamicists have used to model animal flight, ...
The Top Laptop Makers Are Not HP, Dell, or Toshiba
May 10, 2007 |
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On Wednesday, an analyst group released the market share held by laptop manufacturers during 2006 – not OEMs like Dell, Hewlett-Packard, or Toshiba, but the companies that actually make the laptops themselves.
'Missing Mass' Found in Recycled Dwarf Galaxies
May 10, 2007 |
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Astronomers studying dwarf galaxies formed from the debris of a collision of larger galaxies found the dwarfs much more massive than expected, and think the additional material is "missing mass" that theorists ...
'Short-circuit' discovered in ocean circulation
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 10, 2007 |
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Scientists have discovered how ocean circulation is working in the current that flows around Antarctica by tracing the path of helium from underwater volcanoes. The details are published in Nature this week. ...
Is the Vacuum Empty? -- the Higgs Field and the Dark Energy
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The problems in understanding the true nature of the “vacuum” of space were discussed by theoretical physicist Alvaro de Rújula from CERN (the European Council for Nuclear Research) in Geneva, Switzerland, and a professor ...
New petroleum-degrading bacteria found at Rancho La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles
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Environmental scientists at UC Riverside have discovered that the Rancho La Brea tar pits in downtown Los Angeles, Calif., house hundreds of new species of bacteria with unusual properties, allowing the bacteria ...
Study Suggests Extreme Summer Warming in the Future
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 10, 2007 |
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A new study by NASA scientists suggests that greenhouse-gas warming may raise average summer temperatures in the eastern United States nearly 10 degrees Fahrenheit by the 2080s.
Remnants of ice age linger in gravity
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 10, 2007 |
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Researchers have uncovered a large area of low but increasing gravity over North America – the lingering effect of the last ice age when sheets of ice sometimes three kilometres thick covered nearly all of Canada and the ...
Could carrots be the secret to a long-life and sex appeal?
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Researchers at the Universities of Glasgow and Exeter have found that eating certain plant substances can slow down the rate of ageing - and that females prefer mates that will be long-lived.
Study shows massive CO2 burps from ocean to atmosphere at end of last ice age
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 10, 2007 |
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A University of Colorado at Boulder-led research team tracing the origin of a large carbon dioxide increase in Earth's atmosphere at the end of the last ice age has detected two ancient "burps" that originated ...
