A baseball cap that reads your mind
May 16, 2008 |
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It looks like an ordinary baseball cap. But when you put it on, the cap detects and analyzes the electroencephalogram (EEG) signals from your brain. It can even tell you if you’re getting too sleepy when driving ...
Strange star stumps astronomers
May 16, 2008 |
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An obese oddball of a star has left astronomers wondering how it could have formed. Dr David Champion and his colleagues at CSIRO’s Australia Telescope National Facility publish their findings about the star ...
A Critique of Shortsighted Anthropic Principles
May 16, 2008 |
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Many people marvel that we live in a universe that seems to be precisely tailored to suit the development of intelligent life. The observation is the basis for some forms of "Anthropic Principles" that strive to explain why ...
How Did That Chain Letter Get To My Inbox?
May 16, 2008 |
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Everyone who has an e-mail account has probably received a forwarded chain letter promising good luck if the message is forwarded on to others--or terrible misfortune if it isn't. The sheer volume of forwarded ...
How small molecule can take apart Alzheimer's disease protein fibers
May 16, 2008 |
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Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have shown, in unprecedented detail, how a small molecule is able to selectively take apart abnormally folded protein fibers connected to ...
Weather, waves and wireless: Super strength signalling
May 16, 2008 |
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A new study from the University of Leicester has discovered a particular window of time when mobile signals and radio waves are ‘super strength’ – allowing them to be clearer and travel greater distances, potentially interfering ...
Snakes Hear in Stereo
May 16, 2008 |
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Physicists from the University Munich in Germany and the University of Topeka, Kansas have strong new evidence that snakes can hear through their jaws. Snakes don't have outer ears, leading to the myth that they can't hear ...
HIV infection stems from few viruses
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
May 16, 2008 |
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A new study reveals the genetic identity of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the version responsible for sexual transmission, in unprecedented detail.
Scientists identified earthquake faults in Sichuan, China
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 16, 2008 |
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Only last summer research published by earth scientists in the international journal Tectonics concluded that geological faults in the Sichuan Basin, China "are sufficiently long to sustain a strong ground-shaking earthq ...
Sight Recovery After Blindness Offers New Insights on Brain Reorganization
May 16, 2008 |
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Studies of the brains of blind persons whose sight was partially restored later in life have produced a compelling example of the brain's ability to adapt to new circumstances and rewire and reconfigure itself.
Entrepreneurs value 'ideas' over weatlh, study finds
May 16, 2008 |
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A study at the University of Liverpool has revealed that entrepreneurs are driven to start companies by their passion for ideas rather than the pursuit of wealth.
NIST tool helps Internet master top-level domains
Technology / Computer Sciences
May 16, 2008 |
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At the request of a worldwide Internet organization, a computer scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology developed an algorithm that may guide applicants in proposing new “top-level domains”—the last ...
Item! Candidates are buying your vote
May 16, 2008 |
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Mention the words “vote buying” and modern-day political villains Jack Abramoff and Tony Rezko probably come to mind, or perhaps special interest groups that donate to a politician’s campaign and expect support when relevant ...
Sulfur in marine archaeological shipwrecks -- the 'hull story' gives a sour aftertaste
May 16, 2008 |
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Advanced chemical analyses reveal that, with the help of smart scavenging bacteria, sulfur and iron compounds accumulated in the timbers of the Swedish warship Vasa during her 333 years on the seabed of the Stockholm harbour. ...
Scientists unveil new tool to understand evolution of multi-domain genes
Biology /
May 16, 2008 |
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Carnegie Mellon scientists have discovered critical flaws in the standard method used to analyze gene evolution. Standard methods fail when applied to genes that encode multi-domain proteins, an important class of proteins ...
