Astronomers Discover Most Dark Matter-Dominated Galaxy in Universe
Sep 18, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team led by a Yale University astronomer has discovered the least luminous, most dark matter-filled galaxy known to exist.
From Sugar to Gasoline
Sep 18, 2008 |
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Following independent paths of investigation, two research teams are announcing this month that they have successfully converted sugar-potentially derived from agricultural waste and non-food plants-into gasoline, diesel, ...
Left, Right; Obama, McCain: It may not be what you think
Sep 18, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Why does it seem many people begin with political preferences and then try to find reasons justifying their inclinations? Why is it so difficult to sway people who care deeply about politics no matter how ...
Researchers meet major hydrogen milestone
Sep 18, 2008 |
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A team of scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory earlier this month reached a major milestone with the successful production of hydrogen through High-Temperature Electrolysis (HTE).
New study offers solution to global fisheries collapse
Sep 18, 2008 |
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A study published in the September 19 issue of Science shows that an innovative yet contentious fisheries management strategy called "catch shares" can reverse fisheries collapse. Where traditional "open access" fisheries have c ...
Political attitudes are predicted by physiological traits
Sep 18, 2008 |
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Is America's red-blue divide based on voters' physiology? A new paper in the journal Science, titled "Political Attitudes Are Predicted by Physiological Traits," explores the link.
'Buckyballs' have high potential to accumulate in living tissue
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Sep 18, 2008 |
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Research at Purdue University suggests synthetic carbon molecules called fullerenes, or buckyballs, have a high potential of being accumulated in animal tissue, but the molecules also appear to break down in sunlight, perhaps ...
Polar Crown Prominences
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Warning: Material contained in this story may make you wish to become a solar physicist. Japan's Hinode spacecraft, launched in 2006 on a mission to study the sun, is beaming back movies that astonish even ...
Comet dust reveals unexpected mixing of solar system
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 18, 2008 |
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Chemical clues from a comet's halo are challenging common views about the history and evolution of the solar system and showing it may be more mixed-up than previously thought.
Walnut trees emit aspirin-like chemical to deal with stress
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Plants in a forest respond to stress by producing significant amounts of a chemical form of aspirin, scientists have discovered. The finding, by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), ...
Noble metal nanoparticles deposit on the mycelium of growing fungi--an approach to new catalytic systems?
Sep 18, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When fungi, such as penicillium, grow, they form a thread-like network, the mycelium. If the fungus is grown in a medium containing nanoscopic particles of a noble metal, the resulting mycelium is coated ...
3D Virtual Reality Environment Developed at UC San Diego Helps Scientists Innovate
Sep 18, 2008 |
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Its name sounds like something out of science fiction, but the StarCAVE at the University of California, San Diego is now a science fact. The virtual-reality environment allows groups of scientists to venture ...
Scientists find 'redesigned hammer' that forged evolution of pregnancy in mammals
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Sep 18, 2008 |
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Yale researchers have shown that the origin and evolution of the placenta and uterus in mammals is associated with evolutionary changes in a single regulatory protein, according to a report in Proceedings of ...
Phoenix Images Discarded Heat Shield
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 18, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new color high-resolution image from the Phoenix Mars Lander shows its crumpled heat shield about 150 meters away from the spacecraft.
Self-flying Stanford robocopter learn tricks though observation
Sep 18, 2008 |
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Brow clenched in focus, expert radio-control pilot Garett Oku, of Mountain View, Calif., guided a 4-foot-long model helicopter through a dizzying sequence of aerobatic tricks, punctuated by an upside-down tailspin called ...
