Numbers follow a surprising law of digits, and scientists can't explain why
May 10, 2007 |
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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 ...
Bat flight generates complex aerodynamic tracks
May 10, 2007 |
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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, ...
A galactic fossil: Star is found to be 13.2 billion years old
May 10, 2007 |
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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 ...
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.
Red Hat Shuns 'Windows Clone' Model for Global Desktop
May 10, 2007 |
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The new Red Hat global desktop is based on a stripped-down version of the existing Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 and contains applications like Firefox, OpenOffice and Evolution.
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
May 10, 2007 |
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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 ...
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 ...
Hands-On With the Helio Ocean
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
May 10, 2007 |
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This messaging phone just might kick the T-Mobile Sidekick to the curb.
Radical engine redesign would reduce pollution, oil consumption
May 10, 2007 |
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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 ...
Is the Vacuum Empty? -- the Higgs Field and the Dark Energy
May 10, 2007 |
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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 ...
'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 ...
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 ...
New petroleum-degrading bacteria found at Rancho La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles
Biology /
May 10, 2007 |
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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 ...
Vendors Roll Out New Centrino Notebooks
May 10, 2007 |
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HP, Lenovo and Gateway upgrade their laptops with Intel's latest mobile platform. Dell says it will wait.
