Black Holes: Eternal Prisons No More, Stephen Hawking's Lecture
Mar 16, 2009 |
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Celebrated physicist, Stephen Hawking, delivered an inspiring speech to a full house in Bovard Auditorium on March 10. USC College Dean Howard Gillman kicked off the event by introducing Nick Warner, professor ...
Scientists Build Anti-Mosquito Laser
Mar 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In an effort to prevent the spread of malaria, scientists have built a laser that shoots and kills mosquitoes. Malaria, which is caused by a parasite and transmitted by mosquitoes, kills about ...
Climate-related changes on the Antarctic peninsula
Mar 16, 2009 |
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Scientists have long established that the Antarctic Peninsula is one of the most rapidly warming spots on Earth. Now, new research using detailed satellite data indicates that the changing climate is affecting ...
Brain on a chip?
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- How does the human brain run itself without any software? Find that out, say European researchers, and a whole new field of neural computing will open up. A prototype 'brain on a chip' is ...
Galaxy Cores to Crash in a Few Million Years
Mar 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope offers a rare view of an imminent collision between the cores of two merging galaxies, each powered by a black hole with millions of times the ...
Search for blood pressure secrets reveals a surprising new syndrome
Mar 16, 2009 |
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Yale researchers investigating the genetic causes of blood pressure variation have identified a previously undescribed syndrome associated with seizures, a lack of coordination, developmental delay and hearing loss.
Mini Dinosaurs Prowled North America (w/Video)
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 16, 2009 |
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Massive predators like Albertosaurus and Tyrannosaurus rex may have been at the top of the food chain, but they were not the only meat-eating dinosaurs to roam North America, according to Canadian researchers w ...
A curious pair of galaxies
Mar 16, 2009 |
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The ESO Very Large Telescope has taken the best image ever of a strange and chaotic duo of interwoven galaxies. The images also contain some surprises -- interlopers both far and near.
New combustion strategy accelerates hydrogen-engine development
Mar 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Car manufacturers aspire to create hydrogen-powered vehicles that could one day allow energy-efficient, cost-effective travel that emits no greenhouse gases or other pollutants. To further ...
Young dinosaurs roamed together, died together (w/Video)
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 16, 2009 |
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A herd of young birdlike dinosaurs met their death on the muddy margins of a lake some 90 million years ago, according to a team of Chinese and American paleontologists that excavated the site in the Gobi ...
Engineer devises ways to improve gas mileage
Mar 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Last summer, it was very expensive to fill up a gas tank when the gasoline price hit close to four dollars a gallon. Transportation by road or air consumes fuel, which not only increases our vulnerability ...
UC Davis Historian Catalogs U.S. Secrets, Lies and Conspiracies
Mar 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The government's own secrets, lies and conspiracies have fueled a 45-year-long decline in America's trust in its leaders, a University of California, Davis, history professor argues in a new book.
Fashion robot to hit Japan catwalk
Mar 16, 2009 |
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Japanese researchers on Monday showed off a robot that will soon strut her stuff down a Tokyo catwalk.
Egypt to open inner chambers of 'bent' pyramid
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 16, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Travelers to Egypt will soon be able to explore the inner chambers of the 4,500-year-old "bent" pyramid, known for its oddly shaped profile, and other nearby ancient tombs, Egypt's antiquities chief ...
Dancing 'adatoms' help chemists understand how water molecules split
Mar 16, 2009 |
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Single oxygen atoms dancing on a metal oxide slab, glowing brighter here and dimmer there, have helped chemists better understand how water splits into oxygen and hydrogen. In the process, the scientists have visualized a ...
