Coal-to-diesel breakthrough could drastically cut oil imports
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Professor Alan Goldman and his Rutgers team in collaboration with researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have developed a way to convert carbon sources, such as coal to diesel fuel. This important ...
Unexpected detail in first-ever Venus south pole images
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ESA's Venus Express has returned the first-ever images of the hothouse planet's south pole from a distance of 206 452 kilometres, showing surprisingly clear structures and unexpected detail. The images were ...
Generally Speaking: A Primer on General Relativity
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“The one sentence statement of general relativity is that ‘gravity is the curvature of spacetime,’” explains Dr. Sean Carroll, assistant professor of physics at the University of Chicago. “Really, the differences come in ...
Nanogenerators May Spark Miniature Machines (Update)
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Researchers have developed a new technique for powering nanometer-scale devices without the need for bulky energy sources such as batteries. By converting mechanical energy from body movement, muscle stretching ...
Probing Question: Does cracking knuckles cause permanent damage?
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Most people have cracked their knuckles more often than they're willing to admit. Against the steering wheel of the car. On the arm of an office chair, or right on the desk. People crack their knuckles mostly ...
Virtual reality gets real
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Creating close to real-life virtual reality (VR) experiences has proven to be costly and has had rather poor results. In response, a European research team has explored how exploiting visual and auditory illusions ...
Nanofibers created in orderly fashion
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For 72 years, scientists have been able to use electric fields to spin polymers into tiny fibers. But there's been just one problem: Like worms that won't stop wriggling, the fibers tangle randomly almost as ...
Team to develop materials to bend lightwaves backwards
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A University of Michigan research team will receive a combined total of $5 million over the next five years to support an interdisciplinary research project on negative refraction—or bending lightwaves downward.
Japan eyes moon colonized by robots
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Japan plans to send robots to explore and set up a base on the moon, possibly within the next 10 years, officials said.
Mars Rovers Head for New Sites After Studying Layers
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NASA's Mars rover Spirit has reached a safe site for the Martian winter, while its twin, Opportunity, is making fast progress toward a destination of its own.
Interstellar chemical tamed in the lab at UCR
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Chemists at the University of California, Riverside have created in the laboratory a type of molecules thought to exist only in interstellar space, which may have valuable applications in chemical industry.
Mars Orbiting Cameras Debut
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Researchers today released the first Mars images from two of the three science cameras on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Images taken by the orbiter's Context Camera and Mars Color Imager during the first ...
Big quake might ravage U.S. Midwest
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Some seismologists are reportedly concerned a major earthquake occurring in the middle of the nation might devastate the U.S. Midwest.
Go figure: Weight loss one of the worst reasons to exercise
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Exercising to lose weight? Think of another reason or the odds are you won't be exercising for long, according to a University of Michigan study of baby boomer women.
Survey: You are fat, but I am not
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The Pew Research Center in Washington says Americans believe their fellow Americans have become fat -- but not themselves.
