Light's Most Exotic Trick Yet: So Fast it Goes ... Backwards?
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In the past few years, scientists have found ways to make light go both faster and slower than its usual speed limit, but now researchers at the University of Rochester have published a paper today in Science ...
For a Bigger Hard-drive, Just Add Water
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Imagine having computer memory so dense that a cubic centimeter contains 12.8 million gigabytes of information. Imagine an iPod playing music for 100 millennia without repeating a single song or a USB thumb-drive with room ...
Next-generation cameras inspired by fruit flies and moths
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Inspired by the way that nature has evolved the eyes of small insects, scientists have fabricated artificial compound eyes that could make camera lenses tiny enough to fit on credit cards or stickers.
Solar Cycle 25 peaking around 2022 could be one of the weakest in centuries
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The Sun's Great Conveyor Belt has slowed to a record-low crawl, according to research by NASA solar physicist David Hathaway. "It's off the bottom of the charts," he says. "This has important repercussions ...
Scientist Revs Up Power of Microbial Fuel Cells in Unexpected Ways
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Scientists have boosted the power output of microbial fuel cells more than 10-fold by letting the bacteria congregate into a slimy matrix known as a biofilm. The research, led by microbiologist Derek Lovley of the University ...
New technology will allow for flexible television and computer screens
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Organic light emitting diodes (OLED) are the technology used in making light emitting fabrics used in cell phones and televisions. The fabrication of flexible OLEDs has up to now been held back by the fragility of the brittle ...
Scientists create the first synthetic nanoscale fractal molecule
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From snowflakes to the leaves on a tree, objects in nature are made of irregular molecules called fractals. Scientists now have created and captured an image of the largest man-made fractal molecule at the ...
ETH crystallographers explain seismic anisotropy of Earth's D-layer
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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ETH Zürich researchers discovered a very unusual mechanism of plastic deformation in the Earth's mantle. Furthermore, they have predicted a new family of mantle minerals. These discoveries shed new light on ...
Spurned spammers hack security site
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Spammers have attacked anti-spam, anti-spyware company Blue Security's Web site, stealing parts of the database to get customers' e-mail addresses.
Biological motors sort molecules one by one on a chip
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Researchers from Delft University of Technology’s Kavli Institute of Nanoscience have discovered how to use the motors of biological cells in extremely small channels on a chip. Based on this, they built a ...
Scientists Describe New Genus of African Monkey: First in 83 Years
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Thanks to a globe-spanning collaboration and an animal found in a farmer’s cornfield in Tanzania, a new genus of living monkey has been characterized, marking the first such discovery in 83 years, according ...
Twin explosions in gigantic dusty potato crisp
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ESO's Very Large Telescope, equipped with the multi-mode FORS instrument, took an image of NGC 3190, a galaxy so distorted that astronomers gave it two names. And as if to prove them right, in 2002 it fired ...
Study: Neolithic life wasn't much fun
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
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U.K. researchers say they've determined Neolithic, or New Stone Age, people were more violent than has been believed.
Panasonic, Sony Developed New HD Digital Video Camera Recorder Format
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Panasonic, the brand name for which Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. is known, and Sony Corporation today announced specifications for "AVCHD," a brand new high definition (HD) digital video camera recorder format ...
Darwinian mystery may have been solved
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U.S. scientists may have solved Charles Darwin's "abominable mystery" of flowering plants' rapid evolution after they appeared 140 million years ago.
