It's 2025. Where Do Most People Live?
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 11, 2006 |
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Researchers at the Center for Climate Systems Research (CCSR), a part of The Earth Institute, have developed a high-resolution map of projected population change for the year 2025.
Scientists show hallucinogen in mushrooms creates universal 'mystical' experience
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Using unusually rigorous scientific conditions and measures, Johns Hopkins researchers have shown that the active agent in "sacred mushrooms" can induce mystical/spiritual experiences descriptively identical to spontaneous ...
Physicists Unlock Mysteries of the DVD-RAM
Jul 11, 2006 |
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DVD technology is by no means new, but that doesn’t mean that we know everything about the way that these devices store our movies and data. New research conducted by scientists at North Carolina State University has provided ...
Self-Cooling Soda Bottles?
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Every day, the sun bathes the planet in energy--free of charge--yet few systems can take advantage of that source for both heating and cooling. Now, researchers are making progress on a thin-film technology ...
Researchers build sharpest tip
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 11, 2006 |
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Forget the phrase, "sharp as a tack." Now, thanks to new University of Alberta research the popular expression might become, "sharp as a single atom tip formed by chemically assisted spatially controlled field evaporation." ...
Large dinosaurs were extremely hot in their day
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If you think dinosaurs are hot today, just think back to about 110 million years ago when they really ran hot and heavy.
Supercomputers help physicists understand a force of nature
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What if the tiniest components of matter were somehow different from the way they exist now, perhaps only slightly different or maybe a lot? What if they had been different from the moment the universe began in the big bang? ...
Touch-screen tech coming to cellphones
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jul 11, 2006 |
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Still getting excited about being able to send an e-mail from your cell phone? That's so 2005. The life cycle of cell-phone thrills is getting shorter and shorter as users become more blasé more quickly about ...
Study finds rogue waves are fact, not myth
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 11, 2006 |
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A German scientist says deadly "rogue waves" of 100 feet or higher are more common than thought.
Bill Gates: 80 percent chance Vista will be ready in January
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(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Tuesday there was an 80 percent chance the company's next-generation operating system, Vista, would be ready in January.
Fear of radiation may be exaggerated
Jul 11, 2006 |
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Scientists who examined the meltdown 20 years ago of a Soviet nuclear reactor say the danger of radiation to human health may be significantly exaggerated.
Studies: Fish oil helps vision
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U.S. and Australian researchers have found that fish oil helps save vision as one ages but cigarette smoking increases the risk of blindness.
Satellite debacle hits India's DTH plans
Jul 11, 2006 |
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The failure of the launch of the Indian Space Research Organization's communications satellite INSAT-4C that was made to explode since it veered off course soon after launch Monday has come as a major setback for the country's ...
Skype capability available in smart drive
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jul 11, 2006 |
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SanDisk is including Skype software in its newest portable Flash memory drives, enabling users to connect to Skype's calling services from any computer.
Chemistry research could produce faster computers
Jul 11, 2006 |
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Chemists at the University of Liverpool are helping to create future electronics based on molecules for faster and smaller computers.
