Archive: 03/13/2009
Sea Level Rise Due to Global Warming Poses Threat to New York City
(PhysOrg.com) -- Global warming is expected to cause the sea level along the northeastern U.S. coast to rise almost twice as fast as global sea levels during this century, putting New York City at greater ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 13, 2009 |
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Nanocups brim with potential: Light-bending metamaterial could lead to superlenses, invisibility cloaks
Researchers at Rice University have created a metamaterial that could light the way toward high-powered optics, ultra-efficient solar cells and even cloaking devices.
Mar 13, 2009 |
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Maine expanding school laptop program with Apple
(AP) -- Despite the economic turmoil, Maine is expanding its program to provide laptop computers to students.
Mar 13, 2009 |
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Ticket's in the mail: Red-light cameras questioned
(AP) -- Minutes after Neel Manglik illegally turned right on a red light in the Des Moines suburb of Clive, a video popped up on a computer at an office park outside Scottsdale, Ariz.
Mar 13, 2009 |
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Traffic exposure may have a triggering effect on heart attack
People who have had a heart attack are likely to report having been in traffic shortly before their symptoms began, researchers reported at the American Heart Association's 49th Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease ...
Mar 13, 2009 |
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Prion discovery gives clue to control of mass gene expression
The discovery in common brewer's yeast of a new, infectious, misfolded protein -- or prion -- by University of Illinois at Chicago molecular biologists raises new questions about the roles played by these curious molecules, ...
Mar 13, 2009 |
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Aging: Worms, Flies & Yeast Are More Like Us than Previously Expected
When it comes to the aging process, yeast, nematode worms and fruit flies have more in common with humans than previously expected. In addition to highlighting the similarities between species, a large-scale human protein ...
Mar 13, 2009 |
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Another Dimension in Technology Awaits
If you’ve been to the movies lately, chances are your popcorn came with a pair of 3-D glasses.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Mar 13, 2009 |
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Prehistoric Turtle Threatened by Modern Menace
They survived the extinction of the dinosaurs. They're descendants of one of the oldest family trees in history, spanning 100 million years. But today leatherback turtles, the most widely distributed reptiles ...
Mar 13, 2009 |
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A Forceful New Method to Sensitively Detect Proteins
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory recently reported the detection of toxins with unprecedented speed, sensitivity, and simplicity. The approach can sense as few as a few hundred molecules in a drop ...
Mar 13, 2009 |
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Final Piece Of NASA's Next-Generation Rocket Heads To Launch Site
(PhysOrg.com) -- The final pieces of the Ares I-X flight test rocket left the Alliant Tech Systems manufacturing facility in Promontory, Utah, Thursday and began a 2,917-mile journey to its launch site at ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 13, 2009 |
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NASA Launches 'Eyes on the Earth 3-D'
(PhysOrg.com) -- New interactive features on NASA's Global Climate Change Web site give the public the opportunity to "fly along" with NASA's fleet of Earth science missions and observe Earth from a global ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 13, 2009 |
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Feared by the bad, loved by the good? Scientists discover previously unknown document on Robin Hood
(PhysOrg.com) -- A freshly-discovered document highlighting negative attitudes towards Robin Hood has been deciphered by an academic at the University of St Andrews.
Mar 13, 2009 |
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Medicine released from pill filmed
(PhysOrg.com) -- In an international alliance with funding from NanoNed, the Dutch national research programme, researchers at the University of Twente, the Netherlands, have succeeded in filming the spread ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Mar 13, 2009 |
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Main federal disaster relief law has fallen behind modern threat levels, study finds
In new research published in the Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, New York University Professor Mitchell Moss explains that the cornerstone Federal disaster relief legislation, the Robert T. Stafford Act, i ...
Mar 13, 2009 |
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