Quality of Sleep Determines Where the Brain Stores Memories
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As time passes, our memories are transferred to different parts of the brain in order to ideally store our past experiences. While scientists have known that sleep plays an important role in helping consolidate ...
Reversible data transfers from light to sound
Dec 13, 2007 |
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As a step towards designing tomorrow's super-fast optical communications networks, a Duke University-led research team has demonstrated a way to transfer encoded information from a laser beam to sound waves and then back ...
Light Source Lasts 12 Years - No Electricity Needed
Dec 13, 2007 |
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A company called MPK is designing a light source that will glow continuously for more than 12 years without any additional energy.
Gliese 581: one planet might indeed be habitable
Dec 13, 2007 |
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More than 10 years after the discovery of the first extrasolar planet, astronomers have now discovered more than 250 of these planets. Until a few years ago, most of the newly discovered exoplanets were Jupiter-mass, ...
Researchers discover second light-sensing system in human eye
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Dec 13, 2007 |
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New research on blind subjects has bolstered evidence that the human eye has two separate light-sensing systems — one that perceives the familiar visual signals that allow us to see and a second, separate system that tells ...
Experiments reveal unexpected activity of fuel cell catalysts
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 13, 2007 |
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Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have unveiled important details about a class of catalysts that could help improve the performance of fuel cells. With the goal ...
Collaboration yields 'the right glasses' for observing mystery behavior in electrons
Dec 13, 2007 |
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In collaboration with the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies at Los Alamos, an international team of researchers has, for the first time, viewed on a nanoscale the formation of mysterious metallic puddles ...
Sshhh, it's listening: totally new computer interfaces
Technology / Computer Sciences
Dec 13, 2007 |
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Keyboards are a necessary part of today’s computers, right? Maybe not for much longer. A group of European scientists have used acoustic sensors to turn wooden tabletops and even three-dimensional objects ...
Coral Reefs Unlikely to Survive in Acid Oceans
Dec 13, 2007 |
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Carbon emissions from human activities are not just heating up the globe, they are changing the ocean’s chemistry. This could soon be fatal to coral reefs, which are havens for marine biodiversity and underpin ...
Moss is a super model for feeding the hungry
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Dec 13, 2007 |
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One of the simplest plants on the planet could help scientists create crops to survive the ravages of drought.
Stunning survey unveils new secrets of Caistor Roman town
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 13, 2007 |
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On the morning of Friday July 20, 1928, the crew of an RAF aircraft took photographs over the site of the Roman town of Venta Icenorum at Caistor St Edmund in Norfolk, a site which now lies in open fields to the south of ...
Saturn's Rings May Be As Old As Solar System
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 13, 2007 |
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New observations by NASA's Cassini spacecraft indicate the rings of Saturn, once thought to have formed during the age of the dinosaurs, instead may have been created roughly 4.5 billion years ago when the ...
Semen ingredient 'drastically' enhances HIV infection
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Dec 13, 2007 |
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A plentiful ingredient found in human semen drastically enhances the ability of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to cause infection, according to a report in the December 14, 2007, issue of the journal Cell, a publ ...
Researchers shine the light of venus to learn how the herpes virus invades cells
Dec 13, 2007 |
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University of Pennsylvania researchers have uncovered an important step in how herpes simplex virus, HSV-1, uses cooperating proteins found on its outer coat to gain entry into healthy cells and infect them. Further, the ...
Fish farms drive wild salmon populations toward extinction
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Dec 13, 2007 |
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A study appearing in the December 14 issue of the journal Science shows, for the first time, that parasitic sea lice infestations caused by salmon farms are driving nearby populations of wild salmon toward ...
