Theory of Physics Explains Human Patterns
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Why does a railway network look like a river? Why do the streets of old Rome look like a leaf? Because whether their shape is determined by the interactions of molecules or the choices made by individual humans, all of these ...
Scientists take steps toward quantum communications
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A team of European scientists has proved within an ESA study that the weird quantum effect called 'entanglement' remains intact over a distance of 144 kilometres.
Physicist cracks women's random but always lucky choice of X chromosome
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A University of Warwick physicist has uncovered how female cells are able to choose randomly between their two X chromosomes and why that choice is always lucky.
Matter Flashed at Ultra Speed
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Using a robotic telescope at the ESO La Silla Observatory, astronomers have for the first time measured the velocity of the explosions known as gamma-ray bursts. The material is travelling at the extraordinary speed of more ...
Hidden Planet Pushes Star's Ring a Billion Miles Off-Center
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A young star's strange elliptical ring of dust likely heralds the presence of an undiscovered Neptune-sized planet, says a University of Rochester astronomer in the latest Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical So ...
The woes of Kilimanjaro: Don't blame global warming
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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The "snows" of Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro inspired the title of an iconic American short story, but now its dwindling icecap is being cited as proof for human-induced global warming.
Cutting greenhouse gases: wood chips in, alcohol out
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California researchers plan to make biofuels in a novel way that doesn’t involve food crops or microbial fermentation.
Extreme environment biology research may help solve lignocellulosic ethanol puzzle
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Buried beneath a sulfurous cauldron in European seas lies a class of microorganisms known as “extremophiles,” so named because of the extreme environmental conditions in which they live and thrive. Almost ...
Scientist Finds a New Way to the Center of the Earth
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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Humans have yet to see Earth's center, as did the characters in Jules Verne's science fiction classic, "Journey to the Center of the Earth." But a new NASA study proposes a novel technique to pinpoint more ...
CT scan reveals ancient long-necked gliding reptile
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
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The fossilized bones of a previously unknown, 220 million-year-old long-necked, gliding reptile may remain forever embedded in stone, but thanks to an industrial-size CT scanner at Penn State's Center for ...
Toshiba Develops New NAND Flash Technology
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Toshiba Corporation today announced a new three dimensional memory cell array structure that enhances cell density and data capacity without relying on advances in process technology, and with minimal increase ...
Overcoming the limits of resolution
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This year's Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics will be awarded to the Göttingen-based researcher Stefan Hell for his revolutionary discovery that resolutions far below the diffraction limit can be achieved in a fluorescence ...
Progress Toward an Antitumor Vaccine
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How can we induce the body to use its own weapon, the immune system, to battle cancer?
Invasive Cuban tree frogs threaten native wildlife, damage utilities
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North Florida residents accustomed to tiny tree frogs may feel jumpy — a giant Cuban species has colonized half the state and is moving north, a University of Florida expert says.
New theory aims to explain recent temperature, climate extremes
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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Using an ocean of data, sophisticated mathematical models and supercomputing resources, researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are putting climate models to the test with particular focus ...
