Reading Shakespeare has dramatic effect on human brain
Dec 18, 2006 |
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Research at the University of Liverpool has found that Shakespearean language excites positive brain activity, adding further drama to the bard's plays and poetry.
Physics Reveals the Key to a Great Golf Swing
Dec 18, 2006 |
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What happens when a golf-loving researcher injures a shoulder and can't play for three months? Rod White, a metrologist (measurement scientist), used the spare time off the course to undertake an analysis that ...
Fossil Discovery Turns Scientific Theory on Its Head
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 18, 2006 |
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An international team led by University of Adelaide palaeontologist Trevor Worthy has discovered a unique, primitive type of land mammal that lived at least 16 million years ago on New Zealand.
Shoulder ligament a linchpin in the evolution of flight
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Dec 18, 2006 |
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Brown and Harvard scientists have learned that a single ligament at the shoulder joint stabilizes the wings of birds during flight. In an advanced online publication of Nature, they explain how this tough ...
Spitzer Picks Up Glow of Universe's First Objects
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New observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope strongly suggest that infrared light detected in a prior study originated from clumps of the very first objects of the universe. The recent data indicate ...
New magnetic polymers may advance spintronics technologies
Dec 18, 2006 |
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Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have pioneered a new approach for making magnetic polymers that are held together with very strong hydrogen bonds. These polymers contain ...
Another world first for Artemis: A laser link with an aircraft
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 18, 2006 |
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Artemis, the European Space Agency Advanced Relay and Technology Mission Satellite, successfully relayed optical laser links from an aircraft in early December. These airborne laser links, established over ...
How to avoid a bat
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Current understanding of the co-evolution of bats and moths has been thrown into question following new research reported today in Current Biology.
Nanomaterials vulnerable to dispersal in natural environment
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Dec 18, 2006 |
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Laboratory experiments with a type of nanomaterial that has great promise for industrial use show significant potential for dispersal in aquatic environments -- especially when natural organic materials are ...
Making Better Magnetic Nanoparticles
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Dec 18, 2006 |
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Using a polymer coating designed to resemble the outer surface of a cell membrane, a team of investigators led by Steve Armes, Ph.D., of the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom, has created a highly stable, biocompatible ...
Memory experts show sleeping rats may have visual dreams
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Memories of our life stories may be reinforced while we sleep, MIT researchers report Dec. 17 in the advance online edition of Nature Neuroscience.
Epson Develops Ultra-Sensitive, Ultra-Compact GPS Module for Mobile Handsets
Dec 18, 2006 |
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Seiko Epson Corporation has developed an ultra-sensitive, ultra-compact global positioning system (GPS) module to meet high demand from manufacturers of mobile phones and other handsets with GPS functionality.
Thundersnow Often Means Lots of Snow
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 18, 2006 |
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It's rarely a good sign when a snowstorm produces lightning and thunder, according to University of Missouri-Columbia atmospheric scientists, who warn that such weather behavior is often the precursor to a bigger problem: ...
Study: Living coral reefs provide better protection from tsunami waves
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 18, 2006 |
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Healthy coral reefs provide their adjacent coasts with substantially more protection from destructive tsunami waves than do unhealthy or dead reefs, a Princeton University study suggests.
Too mellow for our predatory world
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Dec 18, 2006 |
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Marine iguanas on the Galapagos Islands live without predators - at least this was the case up until 150 years ago. Since then they have been confronted with cats and dogs on some islands of the Archipelago. ...
