The Best Way to Board a Plane
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Most airlines board passengers the same way, first filling the seats in the back of the plane, and then moving to the front. After a recent experience boarding a plane in this manner, Fermilab physicist Jason ...
Astronomers discover scaled-down Jupiter and Saturn in a faraway solar system like our own
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An international team of astronomers has discovered two planets that resemble smaller versions of Jupiter and Saturn in a solar system nearly 5,000 light years away. The find suggests that our galaxy hosts ...
COUPP experiment tightens limits on dark matter
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Scientists working on the COUPP experiment at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory today announced a new development in the quest to observe dark matter. The Chicagoland Observatory ...
When people feel powerful, they ignore new opinions, study finds
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
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Don’t bother trying to persuade your boss of a new idea while he’s feeling the power of his position – new research suggests he’s not listening to you. “Powerful people have confidence in what they are thinking. Whether their ...
New approach may render disease-causing staph harmless
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Researchers at the University of Illinois helped lead a collaborative effort to uncover a completely new treatment strategy for serious Staphylococcus aureus (“Staph”) infections. The research, published Feb. 14 in Science Ex ...
New materials can selectively capture carbon dioxide
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UCLA chemists report a major advance in reducing heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions in the Feb. 15 issue of the journal Science.
New meat-eating dinosaur duo from Sahara ate like hyenas, sharks
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
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Two new 110 million-year-old dinosaurs unearthed in the Sahara Desert highlight the unusual meat-eaters that prowled southern continents during the Cretaceous Period. Named Kryptops and Eocarcharia in a paper ...
Cell phone-cancer link found by Tel Aviv University scientist
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An Israeli scientist, Dr. Siegal Sadetzki, has found a link between cell phone usage and the development of tumors.
Total Lunar Eclipse
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
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On Wednesday evening, February 20th, the full Moon over the Americas will turn a delightful shade of red and possibly turquoise, too. It's a total lunar eclipse—the last one until Dec. 2010.
Protein's strength lies in h-bond cooperation
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
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Researchers in Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT reveal that the strength of a biological material like spider silk lies in the specific geometric configuration of structural proteins, which have ...
First map of threats to marine ecosystems shows all the world's oceans are affected
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As vast and far-reaching as the world’s oceans are, every square kilometer is affected by human activities, according to a study in the journal Science by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Cha ...
Researchers make first direct observation of 3-D molecule folding in real time
Biology /
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All the crucial proteins in our bodies must fold into complex shapes to do their jobs. These snarled molecules grip other molecules to move them around, to speed up important chemical reactions or to grab onto our genes, ...
Collaboration helps make JILA strontium atomic clock 'best in class'
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A next-generation atomic clock that tops previous records for accuracy in clocks based on neutral atoms has been demonstrated by physicists at JILA, a joint institute of the Commerce Department's National ...
Arecibo Observatory astronomers discover first near-Earth triple asteroid just 7 million miles away
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Once considered just your average single asteroid, 2001 SN263 has now been revealed as the first near-Earth triple asteroid ever found. The asteroid -- with three bodies orbiting each other -- was discovered ...
Engineering students: Airbrush not just for artists
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The airbrush, that tool behind tattoos and T-shirts, may have an unexpected future … in technology.
