Physicists make first 'molecular movie' of light
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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 ...
Detector can count atom by atom
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More than 80 years have passed since Louis de Broglie discovered that matter can act like a wave as well as a particle. With advances in technology, scientists have recently begun exploiting this strange property ...
30-year puzzle solved: Light guides flight of migratory birds
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Songbirds use multiple sources of directional cues to guide their seasonal migrations, including the Sun, star patterns, the earth's magnetic field, and sky polarized light patterns. To avoid navigational errors as cue availability ...
New light microscope sharpens scientists' focus
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
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A new light microscope so powerful that it allows scientists peering inside cells to discern the precise location of nearly each individual protein they are studying has been developed and successfully demonstrated by scientists ...
Small waves can produce monster waves
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Normal waves can unexpectedly turn into waves the size of a ten-story building. What’s more, these monster waves arise many times more rapidly than was previously thought. This has been shown by researchers at Umea University ...
Computer scientists put social network theory to the test
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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 ...
Quantum physicists control supercurrent
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Netherlands scientists say they've shown that in a quantum-mechanical circuit, the current can be reversed by using a single electron.
Researchers discover online banking security problem
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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 ...
Overall Antarctic snowfall hasn't changed in 50 years
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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An international effort to determine the variability of recent snowfall over Antarctica shows that there has been no real increase in precipitation over the southernmost continent in the last half-century. ...
Greenland's ice loss accelerating rapidly, gravity-measuring satellites reveal
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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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 ...
Encoded Metallic Nanowires Reveal Bioweapons
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 10, 2006 |
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When dangerous infectious diseases or biological weapons are suspected, fast help is required. The first step is a reliable, sensitive, and unambiguous, yet also fast and simple, identification of the pathogen; preferably, ...
Texts to reveal 'Whodunnit'
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Psychologists at the University of Leicester are to investigate texting language to provide new tools for criminal investigation.
Herceptin effective in breast cancer cells with low HER-2 levels
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Northwestern University researchers have discovered that the monoclonal antibody Herceptin (trastuzumab) used in combination with certain cancer chemotherapies effectively treats breast cancer tumors that produce low or undetectable ...
Astronomers find smaller Neptunian rocks
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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.
Rovers Look Forward to A Second Martian Spring
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
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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 ...
