Nanotechnologists demonstrate artificial muscles powered by highly energetic fuels
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University of Texas at Dallas nanotechnologists have made alcohol- and hydrogen-powered artificial muscles that are 100 times stronger than natural muscles, able to do 100 times greater work per cycle and ...
New Satellite Data On Universe's First Trillionth Second
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Scientists peering back to the oldest light in the universe have new evidence to support the concept of inflation. The concept poses the universe expanded many trillion times its size in less than a trillionth ...
'Relativity' Speaking
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“If you want to assume something, fine. But just don’t say Einstein assumed it also.” Ralph Baierlein, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Northern Arizona University, believes that it ...
Astronomers Report Unprecedented Double Helix Nebula Near Center of the Milky Way
Mar 16, 2006 |
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Astronomers report an unprecedented elongated double helix nebula near the center of our Milky Way galaxy, using observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The part of the nebula the astronomers observed ...
Understanding Moonquakes
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NASA astronauts are going back to the moon and when they get there they may need quake-proof housing. That's the surprising conclusion of Clive R. Neal, associate professor of civil engineering and geological ...
All for one, one for all: Atoms behave like Three Musketeers
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An international team of physicists has converted three normal atoms into a special new state of matter whose existence was proposed by Russian scientist Vitaly Efimov in 1970.
Water May Not Have Formed Mars' Recent Gullies
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If you're a scientist studying the surface of Mars, few discoveries could be more exciting than seeing recent gullies apparently formed by running water. And that's what scientists believed they saw in Mars ...
Scientists Discover the Part of the Brain That Causes Some People to Be Lousy in Math
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Most everyone knows that the term "dyslexia" refers to people who can't keep words and letters straight. A rarer term is "dyscalculia," which describes someone who is virtually unable to deal with numbers, much less do complicated ...
Astronomers Discover a River of Stars Streaming Across the Northern Sky
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Astronomers have discovered a narrow stream of stars extending at least 45 degrees across the northern sky. The stream is about 76,000 light-years distant from Earth and forms a giant arc over the disk of the ...
New process builds electronic function into optical fiber
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Optical fiber helped bring us the Internet, and silicon/germanium devices brought us microelectronics. Now, a joint team from Penn State University and the University of Southampton has developed a new way ...
New architecture delivers super-broadband wired, wireless service simultaneously
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Telecommunications researchers have demonstrated a novel communications network design that would provide both ultra-high-speed wireless and wired access services from the same signals carried on a single optical ...
New Wrinkle in the Mystery of High-Tc Superconductors
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In the twenty years since the discovery of high-temperature (Tc) superconductors, scientists have been trying to understand the mechanism by which electrons pair up and move coherently to carry electrical current ...
Research Re-examines Strong Hurricane Studies
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Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have released a study supporting the findings of several studies last year linking an increase in the strength of hurricanes around the world to a global increase ...
Sharp to Introduce Industry’s Thinnest 110,000-Pixel CMOS Camera Module
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Sharp Corporation has developed a 110,000-pixel CMOS camera module with an optical system only 1/11-inch in size. The new LZ0P396D is the industry's most compact, thinnest module, and is ideal for compact portable ...
Columbia University retracts three papers
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Columbia University has retracted three published papers because experiments allegedly performed by a graduate student author couldn't be replicated.
