Voyager 2 proves solar system is squashed
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NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft has followed its twin Voyager 1 into the solar system's final frontier, a vast region at the edge of our solar system where the solar wind runs up against the thin gas between the ...
Self-ticking oscillator could be next for portable atomic clocks
Dec 10, 2007 |
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“Most conventional atomic clocks need a more conventional, non-atomic clock, like a quartz crystal, to keep them ticking,” William Happer tells PhysOrg.com. “We’ve developed a system that would be self-ticking, using a spec ...
Are humans evolving faster? Findings suggest we are becoming more different, not alike
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Dec 10, 2007 |
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Researchers discovered genetic evidence that human evolution is speeding up – and has not halted or proceeded at a constant rate, as had been thought – indicating that humans on different continents are becoming increasingly ...
Current melting of Greenland's ice mimicks 1920s-1940s event
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 10, 2007 |
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Two researchers spent months scouring through old expedition logs and reports, and reviewing 70-year-old maps and photos before making a surprising discovery.
Researchers developed a quantum 'light switch'
Dec 10, 2007 |
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Infinitely secure cryptography that renders any computer unhackable. Computers that can solve the structure of a complicated protein at the drop of a hat. Programs to decrypt complicated enemy secrets. Optical data connections ...
Blue dye could hold the key to super processing power
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 10, 2007 |
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A technique for controlling the magnetic properties of a commonly used blue dye could revolutionise computer processing power, according to research published recently in Advanced Materials.
Light sheds on new fibre's potential to change technology
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Photonic crystal fibre’s ability to create broad spectra of light, which will be the basis for important developments in technology, has been explained for the first time in an article in the leading science journal Nature Ph ...
UK anti-drinking campaign ads may be 'catastrophically misconceived'
Dec 10, 2007 |
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Some anti-drinking advertising campaigns may be “catastrophically misconceived” because they play on the entertaining ‘drinking stories’ that young people use to mark their social identity, say researchers who have just completed ...
NASA satellite reveals unprecedented view of mysterious 'night-shining' clouds
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 10, 2007 |
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NASA's AIM satellite has provided the first global-scale, full-season view of iridescent polar clouds that form 50 miles above Earth’s surface.
When she's turned on, some of her genes turn off
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Dec 10, 2007 |
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When a female is attracted to a male, entire suites of genes in her brain turn on and off, show biologists from The University of Texas at Austin studying swordtail fish.
Scientists develop new measure of 'socioclimactic' risk
Dec 10, 2007 |
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As the United Nations climate negotiations proceed in Bali, Indonesia, researchers have taken a first step toward quantifying the "socioclimatic" exposure of different countries to future climate change.
Using carbon nanotubes to seek and destroy anthrax toxin and other harmful proteins
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Dec 10, 2007 |
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Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new way to seek out specific proteins, including dangerous proteins such as anthrax toxin, and render them harmless using nothing but light. ...
Scientists sort cells with beams of light
Dec 10, 2007 |
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Separating out particular kinds of cells from a sample could become faster, cheaper and easier thanks to a new system developed by MIT researchers that involves levitating the cells with light.
Only second Jurassic dinosaur ever found in Antarctica
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 10, 2007 |
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A new genus and species of dinosaur from the Early Jurassic has been discovered in Antarctica. The massive plant-eating primitive sauropodomorph is called Glacialisaurus hammeri and lived about 190 million years ago.
Where do you stand? Research shows clues in rules of the wild
Biology /
Dec 10, 2007 |
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If you wonder where you stand in the social pecking order at work, home and in the community, a little known group of primates found only in the highlands of Ethiopia may offer some clues.
