Wind, water and sun beat biofuels, nuclear and coal for clean energy, researcher says
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The best ways to improve energy security, mitigate global warming and reduce the number of deaths caused by air pollution are blowing in the wind and rippling in the water, not growing on ...
Team first to record key event that breaks continents apart
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have captured for the first time a geological event considered key in shaping the Earth's landscape.
Voiding the Cosmic Void: We're not at Center of the Universe After All
Dec 10, 2008 |
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Models of the universe that place us near the center of a large, sparse region don't jibe with astronomical observations. Cosmologists at the University of British Columbia reached the conclusion through a new analysis that ...
New detector will aid dark matter search
Dec 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Several research projects are underway to try to detect particles that may make up the mysterious “dark matter” believed to dominate the universe’s mass. But the existing detectors have a ...
Dimmest star-like objects discovered
Dec 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The two faintest star-like objects ever found, a pair of twin “brown dwarfs” each just a millionth as bright as the sun, have been spotted by a team led by MIT physicist Adam Burgasser.
Intel to produce 32nm chips
Dec 10, 2008 |
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Intel Corp., the world's biggest computer chip-maker, said Wednesday that it has developed a manufacturing process that shrinks the circuitry in a chip to just 32 nanometers.
Biggest Full Moon of the Year
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 10, 2008 |
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No, you can not see Neil Armstrong's footprint. But go ahead and look: The full Moon of Dec. 12th is the biggest and brightest full Moon of the year.
Sugar can be addictive, scientist says
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 10, 2008 |
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A Princeton University scientist will present new evidence today demonstrating that sugar can be an addictive substance, wielding its power over the brains of lab animals in a manner similar to many drugs of abuse.
Oscillation Rules as the Pacific Cools
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The latest image of sea-surface height measurements from the U.S./French Jason-1 oceanography satellite shows the Pacific Ocean remains locked in a strong, cool phase of the Pacific Decadal ...
'Fly guy' makes memory breakthrough
Dec 10, 2008 |
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Dr. Francois Bolduc keeps more than 300,000 fruit flies in a basement laboratory, where he manipulates their genes and then tests their mental abilities. He's called the "fly guy," and he may sound like a ...
Controlling the building blocks of life
Dec 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A simple and reliable method for converting one of the simplest chemical entities into one of the most difficult-to-make molecular building blocks of life, with complete control over its shape, ...
Snowy owl -- a marine species?
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Dec 10, 2008 |
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Wildlife satellite studies could lead to a radical re-thinking about how the snowy owl fits into the Northern ecosystem.
New research shows how gene function drives natural selection in important class of genetic elements
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Transposons are the Clark Kents of a genome. Apparently mild-mannered and inconsequential but with sudden bursts of activity, these free-floating bits of genetic material have for millions of years been sneaking ...
Researchers Observe Magnus Effect in Light for First Time
Dec 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have become the first to observe the Magnus effect in light, potentially opening a new avenue for controlling light in nanometer-scale ...
Chemist tames longstanding electron computation problem
Dec 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When the University of Chicago's David Mazziotti talks about chemistry, perhaps he is thinking about how the behavior of all of the electrons in a molecule can be anticipated from the behavior of just two ...
