Humans hot, sweaty, natural-born runners
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Hairless, clawless, and largely weaponless, ancient humans used the unlikely combination of sweatiness and relentlessness to gain the upper hand over their faster, stronger, generally more dangerous animal prey, Harvard Anthropology ...
Was Einstein right? Scientists provide first public peek at Gravity Probe B results
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For the past three years a satellite has circled the Earth, collecting data to determine whether two predictions of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity are correct. Saturday, at the American Physical ...
Engineers set new world record in generation of high-frequency submillimeter waves
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Researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have achieved a new world record in high-frequency submillimeter waves. The record-setting 324-gigahertz frequency was accomplished using a voltage-controlled ...
From beneath Antarctica's Ross Sea, scientists retrieve pristine record of the continent's climate cycles
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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Frequent climate fluctuations on the world’s southernmost continent have been so extreme over the past 5 million years that Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf, a floating slab of ice the size of France, oscillated in size dramatically, ...
Microsoft: Silverlight More than a Flash
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Microsoft gives a name to its Flash-killer technology. The technology formerly known as WPF/E is now known as Silverlight.
A new way to test general relativity
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"Atom interferometry is an exciting field which has been awarded three Nobel prizes in the last decade," Savas Dimopoulos tells PhysOrg.com. “It is a new precision tool with a variety of applications.” Dimopoulos, a phys ...
Earth's dirty little secret: Slowly but surely we are skinning our planet
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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Throughout history civilizations expanded as they sought new soil to feed their populations, then ultimately fell as they wore out or lost the dirt they depended upon. When that happened, people moved on to ...
Toshiba's breakthrough in SSRM technology will Improve Cutting-Edge LSI
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Toshiba Corp. today announced that it has achieved a breakthrough in imaging electron-carrier paths and impurities in semiconductors that allows analysis at the 1-nanometer level for the first time. This major ...
No Solution to Cancer - Have Our Genes Evolved to Turn Against Us?
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Cancer is a natural consequence of human evolution. Our genes have not developed to give us long and happy lives. They are optimized to copy themselves into the next generation - irrespective of our personal ...
Scientists Discover First Seafloor Vents on Ultraslow-Spreading Ridge
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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Scientists have found one of the largest fields of seafloor vents gushing super-hot, mineral-rich fluids on a mid-ocean ridge that, until now, remained elusive to the ten-year hunt to find them.
Did William Herschel Discover The Rings Of Uranus In The 18th Century?
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In a paper presented at the National Astronomy Meeting in Preston from 16 – 20 April, Dr Stuart Eves of Surrey Satellite Technology Limited will challenge the orthodox view that the rings around the planet Uranus were first ...
Skeleton Of Sun's Atmosphere Reveals Its True Nature
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The Sun's outer atmosphere or corona is incredibly complex, as shown in observations from space. It is also extremely hot, with a temperature of over a million degrees by comparison with that of the Sun's ...
Earth's Magnetic Field - A Hazard For Lunar Astronauts?
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 16, 2007 |
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For four days every month the Moon passes through the magnetic field of the Earth and parts of the lunar surface are charged with static electricity. Next week Dr Mike Hapgood of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory ...
Building the nuclear pore piece by piece
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The nuclear pore complexes are the sole gatekeepers for the cell’s nucleus — proteins, RNA, viruses, anything that passes between the nucleus and the rest of the cell has to use one of these giant protein ...
Rulers of the world: New book reveals what makes rich and powerful men tick
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They have been described as 'sacred monsters' by one of their own. Now a new book looks beyond the headlines to reveal that many of the world's most powerful men were shaped by remarkably similar childhood experiences.
