Physicists produce quantum-entangled images
Jun 12, 2008 |
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Using a convenient and flexible method for creating twin light beams, researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute of the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University ...
Carbon Nanotubes as a Single-Photon Source
Jun 12, 2008 |
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Carbon nanotubes, as true multi-purpose materials, have potential applications in everything from electrical circuits and drug delivery to golf clubs and space elevators. Recently, physicists have investigated ...
Computer models show major climate shift as a result of closing ozone hole
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 12, 2008 |
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A new study led by Columbia University researchers has found that the closing of the ozone hole, which is projected to occur sometime in the second half of the 21st century, may significantly affect climate change in the ...
New Map Locates Metals in Millions of Milky Way Stars
Jun 12, 2008 |
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An international team of scientists from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-II) has unveiled the most complete and detailed map yet of the chemical composition of our Galaxy.
Vitamin supplement little more than 'snake oil'
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jun 12, 2008 |
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A popular vitamin supplement is being advertised with claims that are demonstrably untrue, as revealed by research published in the open access journal BMC Pharmacology.
Roadrunner supercomputer puts research at a new scale
Jun 12, 2008 |
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Less than a week after Los Alamos National Laboratory's Roadrunner supercomputer began operating at world-record petaflop/s data-processing speeds, Los Alamos researchers are already using the computer to ...
Delaying school start time by one hour positively affects adolescents' cognitive performance
Jun 12, 2008 |
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Delaying an adolescent’s school start time by one hour has a positive effect on his or her cognitive performance, according to a research abstract that will be presented on Thursday at SLEEP 2008, the 22nd Annual Meeting ...
Toshiba's New 1.8-inch SATA HDD Achieves 160GB
Jun 12, 2008 |
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Toshiba Corporation today announced a new line-up of 1.8-inch hard disk drives adopting a serial ATA interface, including the industry's first drive of this type with a capacity of 160 gigabytes. The new 160GB ...
Mysterious mountain dino may be a new species
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 12, 2008 |
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A partial dinosaur skeleton unearthed in 1971 from a remote British Columbia site is the first ever found in Canadian mountains and may represent a new species, according to a recent examination by a University ...
Scientists Find New Type of Comet Dust Mineral
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 12, 2008 |
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NASA researchers and scientists from the United States, Germany and Japan have found a new mineral in material that likely came from a comet.
Chemists use 'green chemistry' to produce amines, chemical compounds used widely in industry
Jun 12, 2008 |
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Chemists at UC Riverside have discovered an inexpensive, clean and quick way to prepare amines – nitrogen-containing organic compounds derived from ammonia that have wide industrial applications such as solvents, additives, ...
If a Tree Falls in the Forest, and No One Is Around to Hear It, Does Climate Change?
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 12, 2008 |
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There are roughly 42 million square kilometers of forest on Earth, a swath that covers almost a third of the land surface, and those wooded environments play a key role in both mitigating and enhancing global ...
We can be serious: Researchers dispute Hawk-eye's Wimbledon line call
Jun 12, 2008 |
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Ahead of Wimbledon fortnight (23 June to 6 July), researchers from Cardiff University are advising that sports decision aids such as the Hawk-Eye system should come with a 'health' warning attached.
Detection instrument can sniff out airborne terrorist threats
Jun 12, 2008 |
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Security and law enforcement officials may some day have a new ally - a universal detection system that can monitor the air for virtually all of the major threat agents that could be used by terrorists.
Freshwater runoff from the Greenland Ice Sheet will more than double by the end of the century
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 12, 2008 |
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The Greenland Ice Sheet is melting faster than previously calculated according to a recently released scientific paper by University of Alaska Fairbanks researcher Sebastian H. Mernild.
