Electric field can align silver nanowires
May 17, 2006 |
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Scientists have discovered how to align silver nanowires in a controlled manner with an electric field. Their technique offers a possible route to sculpting and writing on nanowires, an ability that will likely ...
Meteor shower is possible next week
May 17, 2006 |
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Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 will be visible this week and next through telescopes or on the Internet and might produce a meteor shower Monday night.
New Twist on Origin of Human Species
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May 17, 2006 |
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New study suggests that the last common ancestor shared between chimps and humans may be ~1 million years more recent than previous estimates. Additional findings reveal a particularly young age of one of the ...
Slab of sunken ocean floor found deep within Earth
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 17, 2006 |
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Deep within Earth, halfway to its center in an area where Earth's core meets its mantle, lies a massive folded slab of rock that once was the ocean floor, reports a team of researchers in the current issue of Nature.
Ancient observatory found in Peru
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 17, 2006 |
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The oldest astronomical observatory in the Western Hemisphere has reportedly been discovered a few miles north of Lima, Peru.
Ancient Etruscans unlikely ancestors of modern Tuscans, statistical testing reveals
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 17, 2006 |
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For the first time, Stanford researchers have used novel statistical computer modeling to simulate demographic processes affecting the population of Tuscany over a 2,500-year time span. Rigorous tests used by the researchers ...
India, the e-wasteland
May 17, 2006 |
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"It's cute, it has Intel inside, and it is cheap; at less than $150 a piece with a color monitor." Advertisements like this inserted by the friendly neighborhood personal-computer assemblers operating out of a garage are ...
Trio of Neptunes and their belt
May 17, 2006 |
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Using the ultra-precise HARPS spectrograph on ESO's 3.6-m telescope at La Silla (Chile), a team of European astronomers have discovered that a nearby star is host to three Neptune-mass planets. The innermost ...
Video headsets join gadget market
May 17, 2006 |
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Video sunglasses could soon be joining camera phones and BlackBerrys as the latest must-have portable gadgets. An Israeli technology company has developed a personal video display device that looks like a simple pair of sunglasses ...
Scientists study the 'apple a day' theory
May 17, 2006 |
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California scientists say they've determined just how an apple a day might be able to keep the doctor away.
Mac's Boot Camp spawns security worries
May 17, 2006 |
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Growing up, we looked forward to the idea of increased responsibility. Once these responsibilities had been bestowed upon us, we wondered what the hurry to grow up had been about. Apple Computer may be finding ...
AMD unveils 64-bit dual-core processor
May 17, 2006 |
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Advanced Micro Devices Wednesday unveiled the first line of 64-bit dual-core processors designed for notebook computers.
Study: Human activity produces drought
May 17, 2006 |
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Columbia University scientists have linked recent water shortages in the northeastern United States with human activities.
Anthropologist unravels 10,000-year-old climate change mystery
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 17, 2006 |
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A University of Alberta (Canada) anthropologist is heading up an international research team that will investigate why an entire Siberian culture of hunter-gatherers vanished between 7000 and 6000 BC.
Novel Structure In South Pacific Plant May Be 'Missing Link' In Evolution Of Flowering Plants
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A new University of Colorado at Boulder study involving a "living fossil plant" that has survived on Earth for 130 million years suggests its novel reproductive structure may be a "missing link" between flowering ...
