Physicists report novel interaction between superconductivity and magnetism
Jan 11, 2008 |
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An international collaboration of researchers led by Morten Ring Eskildsen, an assistant professor of physics at the University of Notre Dame, has discovered an altogether new way in which superconducting electrons can interact ...
Designing a test of neutrinos as dark matter candidates
Jan 11, 2008 |
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One of the biggest mysteries of the universe deals with questions of dark matter. There are several experiments and models being designed all over the world to try and determine what would make good dark matter candidates. ...
Massive Gas Cloud Speeding Toward Collision With Milky Way
Jan 11, 2008 |
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A giant cloud of hydrogen gas is speeding toward a collision with our Milky Way Galaxy, and when it hits -- in less than 40 million years -- it may set off a spectacular burst of stellar fireworks.
NASA Satellites Capture Start of New Solar Cycle
Jan 11, 2008 |
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NASA scientists say a new solar cycle is beginning, and this could have important repercussions for space-based technology ranging from GPS navigation to weather satellites.
Super-computer could throw light on 'mysterious' dark energy
Jan 11, 2008 |
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Cosmologists have run a series of huge computer simulations of the Universe that could ultimately help solve the mystery of dark energy.
Magnetic Alloy With Swiss Cheese Structure Morphs Shape
Jan 11, 2008 |
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Researchers have turned a stubborn alloy into a shape-shifting foam by just giving it a little breathing room.
Culture influences brain function
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 11, 2008 |
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People from different cultures use their brains differently to solve the same visual perceptual tasks, MIT researchers and colleagues report in the first brain imaging study of its kind.
La Niña: 'Little Girl' Makes Big Impression
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 11, 2008 |
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Cool, wet conditions in the Northwest, frigid weather on the Plains, and record dry conditions in the Southeast, all signs that La Niña is in full swing. With winter gearing up, a moderate La Niña is hitting ...
Snoozing worms help researchers explain the evolution of sleep
Jan 11, 2008 |
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The roundworm C. elegans, a staple of laboratory research, may be key in unlocking one of the central biological mysteries: why we sleep. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine report in this week’s ...
Radio Telescopes' Sharp Vision Yields Rich Payoffs
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 11, 2008 |
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Having the sharpest pictures always is a big advantage, and a sophisticated radio-astronomy technique using continent-wide and even intercontinental arrays of telescopes is yielding extremely valuable scientific ...
Uncovering the Achilles' heel of the HIV-1 envelope
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jan 11, 2008 |
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New structural details illustrate how a promising class of antibodies may block human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 infection and reveal valuable clues for design of an effective HIV-1 vaccine.
Researchers create mathematical model of fruit fly eyes
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Many researchers have tried to create a mathematical model of how cells pack together to form tissue, but most models have many different complicated factors, and no model is universal.
Winter Ice on Lakes, Rivers, Ponds: A Thing of the Past?
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 11, 2008 |
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If you're planning to ice skate on a local lake or river this winter, you may need to think twice, according to scientists John Magnuson, Olaf Jensen and Barbara Benson of the University of Wisconsin at Madison. ...
Older Arctic sea ice replaced by young, thin ice
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 11, 2008 |
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A new study by University of Colorado at Boulder researchers indicates older, multi-year sea ice in the Arctic is giving way to younger, thinner ice, making it more susceptible to record summer sea-ice lows ...
MESSENGER set for historic Mercury flyby
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 11, 2008 |
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NASA will return to Mercury for the first time in almost 33 years on Monday, Jan. 14, 2008, when the MESSENGER spacecraft makes its first flyby of the Sun’s closest neighbor, capturing images of large portions ...
