Desert Snake Hears Mouse Footsteps with its Jaw
Feb 13, 2008 |
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Just a few decades ago, some scientists doubted that snakes could hear at all. Snakes lack an outer ear and external ear openings, making it difficult to understand how the reptiles receive acoustic vibrations.
Titan's surface organics surpass oil reserves on Earth
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 13, 2008 |
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Saturn’s orange moon Titan has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, according to new Cassini data. The hydrocarbons rain from the sky, collecting ...
Remarkable new nano-fiber clothing may someday power your iPod
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Feb 13, 2008 |
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Nanotechnology researchers are developing the perfect complement to the power tie: a “power shirt” able to generate electricity to power small electronic devices for soldiers in the field, hikers and others ...
New world record for solar-to-grid conversion efficiency
Feb 13, 2008 |
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On a perfect New Mexico winter day — with the sky almost 10 percent brighter than usual — Sandia National Laboratories and Stirling Energy Systems (SES) set a new solar-to-grid system conversion efficiency ...
Nokia Unveils 1 Green Phone, 1 Super Phone
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Feb 13, 2008 |
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Among its many new devices at this week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the Finnish company Nokia is demonstrating two cell phones that are intriguing in very different ways. The "Remade" is built almost ...
Synthetic Fuel Concept to Steal CO2 From Air
Feb 13, 2008 |
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Los Alamos National Laboratory has developed a low-risk, transformational concept, called Green Freedom™, for large-scale production of carbon-neutral, sulfur-free fuels and organic chemicals from air and water.
Rethinking what men and women want in a partner
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 13, 2008 |
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When it comes to romantic attraction men primarily are motivated by good looks and women by earning power. At least that’s what men and women have been saying for a long time. Based on research that dates back several decades, ...
Physics Explains Why University Rankings Won't Change
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A Duke University researcher says that his physics theory, which has been applied to everything from global climate to traffic patterns, can also explain another trend: why university rankings tend not to change very much ...
Pupil Dilation Marks Decision Making
Feb 13, 2008 |
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The eyes may be the windows to the soul, but the simple pupil--the circular opening at the center of the eye that contracts and dilates to regulate the amount of light the eye receives--offers a remarkable portal to the inner ...
Graphene Holds Promise for Spintronics
Feb 13, 2008 |
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Graphene is a nanomaterial which combines a very simple atomic structure with intriguingly complex and largely unexplored physics. Since its first isolation about four years ago, researchers suggest a large ...
'Hotties' not so hot when you're in love, study
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 13, 2008 |
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As if inspiring countless songs and poems and an international holiday weren't enough, love now is being credited with a truly amazing power: the ability to resist temptation.
Humans inhabited New World's doorstep for 20,000 years
Biology /
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The human journey from Asia to the New World was interrupted by a 20,000-year layover in Beringia, a once-habitable region that today lies submerged under the icy waters of the Bering Strait.
Cheating is easy -- for the social amoeba
Biology /
Feb 13, 2008 |
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Cheating is easy and seemingly without cost for the social amoeba known as Dictyostelium discoideum, said a team of researchers from Baylor College of Medicine and Rice University in Houston who conducted the first genome-scale ...
Possible progenitor of special supernova type detected
Feb 13, 2008 |
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Using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, scientists have reported the possible detection of a binary star system that was later destroyed in a supernova explosion. The new method they used provides ...
Future of social networking explored in UW's computer science building
Technology / Computer Sciences
Feb 13, 2008 |
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If you need information, the Internet offers a wealth of resources. But if you're hunting down a person or a thing, a computer's not much help. That may soon change. Electronic tags promise to create what ...
