Study finds advantages to iron nanoparticles for environmental clean up
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A new study says some iron nanoparticles may be effective in cleaning up carbon tetrachloride in contaminated groundwater Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University's OGI School of Science & Engineering, in colla ...
Uncovering Secrets Of Abalone Body Armor
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Engineering researchers at the University of California, San Diego are using the shell of a seaweed-eating snail as a guide in the development of a new generation of bullet-stopping armor. The colorful oval ...
High-Tech X-Ray Equipment to Examine Dinosaur Skull
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As NASA charts a bold new course into the future, the space agency is briefly taking a step back in time to examine a dinosaur skull. NASA scientists are using equipment at the Marshall Space Flight Center in ...
Deep Impact is out of 'safe mode'
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NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft is out of safe mode and healthy, and on its way to an encounter with comet Tempel 1 on July 4, 2005. Launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Wednesday, the Deep Impact spacecraft ent ...
Quieter, cleaner airplane landings on the way
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An experimental procedure that substantially reduces the noise of descending aircraft is one step closer to availability for commercial air carriers, thanks to the continuing efforts of a research team led by Professor John-Paul ...
Study Finds Depression Intensifies from One Generation to Next
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As the medical community continues to more accurately diagnose depression and anxiety disorders, a new study sheds light on how these debilitating phenomena are passed down through the generations -- and may even intensify. Nearly 60 ...
New life discovered in the deep Mediterranean
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Scientists have discovered a new group of microbes thriving in extreme conditions deep in the Mediterranean Sea. Their existence in such hostile environments hints at the possibility of life on other planets. The European con ...
Huygens on Titan, First Images 2:45 p.m. EST
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European Space Agency mission managers for the Huygens probe confirm that data of the probe's descent to Saturn's moon Titan are being received. They expect to see first images around 2:45 p.m. Eastern Time. The data was ...
The Hidden Vulnerability of Mega-cities To Natural Disasters: Underground Spaces
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Risks associated with underground urban expansion often poorly studied; Modeling events like floods, tsunami essential to risk assessment and planning The rapid and extensive underground expansion of mega-cities - for ...
Parachuting to Titan: Update 1
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Radio astronomers confirm Huygens entry in the atmosphere of Titan. The Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in West Virginia, USA, a part of the global network of radio telescopes involved in tracking the Huygens Titan ...
Measurements at CERN help to re-evaluate the element of life
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Results from experiments at CERN and the Jyväskylä Accelerator Laboratory in Finland, reported in Nature today, cast new light on the primary reaction that creates carbon in stars. All the carbon in the Universe, including that n ...
Huygens lands on Titan!
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Today, after its seven-year journey through the Solar System on board the Cassini spacecraft, ESA’s Huygens probe has successfully descended through the atmosphere of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, and safely ...
Floating Films on Liquid Mercury
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New results may lead to advances in nanotechnology, molecular electronics Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, Bar-Ilan University, and Harvard University have grown ultrathin ...
Philips breaks data storage barriers
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Philips unveiled its new all-in-one PC writer, the OPU81, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this month. The triple laser optical pick-up unit (OPU) can read and write CD-R/-RW, DVD+R(DL)/+RW and the next generation ...
Sleeping Less May Be Related to Weight Gain
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Lack of sleep could make you fat. In an editorial published in the Jan. 10 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, two Northwestern University researchers stress the need to better understand the growing epidemic of obesity ...
