Archive: 08/10/2006
Astronomers find smaller Neptunian rocks
A Taiwan-led study suggests smaller frozen chunks of rock in the outer reaches of the Solar System can be spotted when they obscure starlight.
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Study: U.S. babies are becoming fatter
U.S. medical researchers have examined more than 120,000 Massachusetts children under age 6 for 22 years -- and found today's babies are fatter.
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Quantum physicists control supercurrent
Netherlands scientists say they've shown that in a quantum-mechanical circuit, the current can be reversed by using a single electron.
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Robot teaches medical school students
Wake Forest University School of Medicine students expecting a lecture on the brain and nervous system instead find themselves treating a robotic patient.
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Backpacked pigeons report for smog duty
If you live in northern California and see pigeons wearing tiny backpacks don't worry -- you are not hallucinating.
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Bioethicist: Egg donors should be paid
A U.S. bioethicist says women who donate their eggs for stem cell research should be compensated, as are other healthy research volunteers.
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NASA offers support for SNAP project
NASA announced Thursday it will support an advanced mission concept study for the supernova acceleration probe, or SNAP, mission.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
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Study: Forest fires huge cost to health
Canadian researchers say forest fires don't just have an impact on the environment, the blazes also take a toll on human health.
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Rovers Look Forward to A Second Martian Spring
Like the fabled tortoise that, in the race with the hare, moves slowly yet accomplishes much, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit has continued to make progress little by little, while essentially running ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
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Computer scientists lay out vision for a 'science of the Web'
Researchers need a clear agenda to harness the rapidly evolving potential of the World Wide Web, according to an article in the Aug. 11 issue of the journal Science. Calling for the creation of an interdisciplinary "scien ...
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Computer scientists put social network theory to the test
Ever since 1969, when psychologists Jeffery Travers and Stanley Milgram first explained that everyone was separated by only six connections from anyone else, researchers have created theoretical models of the networks that ...
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Samsung Develops World's First LCD Screen of 3 inch VGA Quality
Samsung Electronics announced today that it has developed the first three-inch LCD panel with VGA (640 x 480 pixels) resolution that directly meets industry interface standards for digital still cameras.
Aug 10, 2006 |
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Researchers discover online banking security problem
Two researchers working within Cardiff University's School of Computer Science, Professor Antonia J Jones and Joseph R Rabaiotti, together with a third independent researcher Stuart P Goring, have today released ...
Aug 10, 2006 |
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Greenland's ice loss accelerating rapidly, gravity-measuring satellites reveal
A new analysis of data from twin satellites has revealed that the melting of Greenland's ice sheet has increased dramatically in the past few years, with much of the loss occurring primarily along one shoreline ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 10, 2006 |
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Physicists make first 'molecular movie' of light
Scientists have made the first ‘molecular movie’ of the elementary interaction between light and matter. They measured what happens on a microscopic level when light travels through a medium in a collaborative ...
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