New evidence for a Dark Matter Galaxy
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New evidence that VIRGOHI 21, a mysterious cloud of hydrogen in the Virgo Cluster 50 million light-years from the Earth, is a Dark Galaxy, emitting no star light, was presented today at the American Astronomical ...
Sonofusion Bubbles Up
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Jan 12, 2006 |
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Sonofusion works, according the latest volley in the argument over the feasibility of acoustically driven nuclear fusion.
Three most powerful hurricanes of 2005 were filled with mysterious lightning
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The boom of thunder and crackle of lightning generally mean one thing: a storm is coming. Curiously, though, the biggest storms of all, hurricanes, are notoriously lacking in lightning. Hurricanes blow, they ...
Micro-engines
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A programme for research on millimetre scale internal combustion engines is being jointly developed by Cambridge Combustion Research Centre and the Centre for Micro-Engineering and Nanotechnology at the University ...
Researchers to develop nano-size battery to be implanted in eye to power artificial retina
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Several researchers from Sandia National Laboratories, led by principal investigator Susan Rempe, are part of a multi-institutional, multidisciplinary team developing a nano-size battery that one day could ...
Teaching ants: First demonstration of 'teaching' in non-human animals
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Certain species of ant use a technique known as ‘tandem running’ to lead another ant from the nest to a food source. Signals between the two ants control both the speed and course of the run. It is believed ...
Polymer Nanoparticle Kills Tumors
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Photodynamic therapy (PDT), which uses a light-sensitive chemical known as a photosensitizer to produce cell-killing “reactive oxygen,” has become an important option for the treatment of esophageal cancer and non-small cell ...
Astronomers discover fastest-spinning pulsar
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A team of astronomers led by McGill University graduate student Jason Hessels has discovered the fastest-spinning neutron star, or pulsar, ever found. The 20-mile-diameter superdense pulsar, which at 716 revolutions ...
Astronomers find magnetic Slinky in constellation of Orion
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UC Berkeley astronomers announced today the first discovery of a helical magnetic field in interstellar space, coiled like a snake around a gas cloud in the constellation of Orion.
Growing Supermassive Black Holes from Seeds
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Astronomers announced today that they have found the first sample of intermediate-mass black holes in active galaxies - a discovery that will help in understanding the early universe. "These are local analogues ...
More than a mile-long core retrieved from Crater Drilling
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Following three months of around-the-clock work, the Chesapeake Bay Impact Crater Deep Drilling Project successfully completed its operations, extracting more than a mile-long segment of rocks and sediments from the Earth. ...
Cosmic battle creates Milky-Way sized tunnel
Jan 12, 2006 |
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A team of astronomers is announcing today that they have discovered a giant Milky Way-sized tunnel filled with high energy particles in a distant galaxy cluster. These new findings are of special interest to ...
Space Probes Detect Enormous Natural Particle Accelerator
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A fleet of NASA and ESA space-weather probes observed an immense jet of electrically charged particles in the solar wind between the Sun and Earth. The jet, at least 200 times as wide as the Earth, was powered ...
Computer problems driving people to drink
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A British survey says stress over work and computer-related problems is driving people to cigarettes and alcohol.
Strike a pose with Oakley's 'eye-pod'
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Looking cool without succumbing to the ever-growing iPod empire is getting easier. While many MP3 fans might swear by the performance of Apple's digital music player, some might want to listen to their tunes ...
