Robot Discovers Itself, Adapts to Injury
Nov 16, 2006 |
4.8 / 5 (216) |
1
Nothing can possibly go wrong ... go wrong ... go wrong ... The truth behind the old joke is that most robots are programmed with a fairly rigid "model" of what they and the world around them are like. If a ...
Dark energy existed in infant universe
Nov 16, 2006 |
4.7 / 5 (51) |
0
Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, researchers have discovered that dark energy, a mysterious repulsive force that makes the universe expand at an ever-faster rate, is not new but rather has been present ...
Stonehenge 'No Place for the Dead', Says Expert
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 16, 2006 |
3.6 / 5 (56) |
0
Professor Timothy Darvill, Head of the Archaeology Group at Bournemouth University, has breathed new life into the controversy surrounding the origins of Stonehenge by publishing a theory which suggests that ...
Geologists Find New Origins of Appalachian Mountains
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 16, 2006 |
4.5 / 5 (39) |
0
Geologists have developed a new theory to explain how and when the Appalachian Mountain range was created. Their research redraws the map of the planet from 420 million years ago.
One Mystery of High-Tc Superconductivity Resolved
Nov 16, 2006 |
4.3 / 5 (39) |
1
Research published online in the journal Science this week by Tonica Valla, a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, appears to resolve one mystery in the 20-year study ...
Not YouTube, HUGETube: Purdue researchers stream massive Internet video
Technology / Computer Sciences
Nov 16, 2006 |
4.5 / 5 (32) |
0
Researchers at Purdue University's Envision Center for Data Perceptualization have transmitted what may be the largest movie ever streamed over the Internet.
Researchers Test the Physics of Star Formation in the Lab
Nov 16, 2006 |
4.3 / 5 (28) |
0
The formation of stars and planets remains one of the big questions in astrophysical science. Currently, scientists do not understand the required conditions and the accretion, or matter collection process, ...
Nanotech tools yield DNA transcription breakthrough
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Nov 16, 2006 |
3.9 / 5 (25) |
0
Rutgers researcher Richard H. Ebright and his collaborators have resolved key questions regarding transcription, the fundamental life process that was the subject of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Two sides of the same Coin: Money spurs changes for better and worse
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 16, 2006 |
3.4 / 5 (24) |
0
Money changes everything, and that includes changing people's motivations for the better and their behavior toward others for the worse, according to a new study published in the international journal Science.
Fires in Far Northern Forests to Have Cooling, Not Warming, Effect
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 16, 2006 |
4.5 / 5 (13) |
0
Droughts and longer summers tied to global warming are causing more fires in the Earth’s vast northernmost forests, a phenomenon that will spew a steadily increasing amount of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
A 27,000-year-old burial site is studied
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 16, 2006 |
4.2 / 5 (13) |
0
Austrian scientists have found the 27,000-year-old burial site of three infants -- the first such European discovery from the Upper Palaeolithic period.
NC State Unveils New DARPA Urban Challenge Driverless Vehicle
Nov 16, 2006 |
4.1 / 5 (13) |
0
In a race that can only be described as futuristic, the Insight Racing team will field a driverless Lotus Elise to compete in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. The team will modify the sports car with sensors ...
Novel optical tweezers instrument unravels bacterial DNA
Biology /
Nov 16, 2006 |
4.3 / 5 (12) |
0
VU Amsterdam researchers have developed an optical tweezers instrument, which they used to unravel bacterial chromosomes. The researchers, headed by Dr. Gijs Wuite, have demonstrated how an important protein, called H-NS, ...
Polar Expedition to Siberian Lake will Yield Details of Past Climate
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 16, 2006 |
2.9 / 5 (16) |
0
An international team of scientists led by Julie Brigham-Grette of the University of Massachusetts Amherst has received $3.2 million from the National Science Foundation to fund an expedition to a polar lake ...
New findings disprove old truth about brain cells
Nov 16, 2006 |
4.5 / 5 (10) |
0
The most common cells in the brain changes their behavior when the tissue is damaged, but their appearance does not change nearly to the extent that researchers thought. The domains of individual astrocytes are well contained ...
