Hybrid Cars -- Pros and Cons
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If you listen to the makers, hybrid cars are the best invention since sliced bread. While there are many reasons to buy a hybrid car, including a new tax incentive for US owners, it helps to have a good understanding ...
LISA and the search for Einstein's waves
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Scientists from across the world came together in London on 12-13 January to review the scientific and technical status of the LISA mission, the world’s first gravitational wave observatory, at a meeting organised ...
Did our ancestors breathe through their ears?
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A fossil fish skull from Latvia that researchers from Uppsala University, Sweden, describe in this weeks issue of Nature shows that the earliest land animals probably breathed through their ears.
New Horizons probe on its way to Pluto (Update)
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A US space probe set off on a decade long mission to start an exploration of Pluto on the fringes of the solar system.
Study suggests why Neanderthals vanished
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A multi-university study argues the disappearance of Neanderthals was not due to competition from modern humans, as is widely believed.
Toward a Quantum Computer, One Dot at a Time
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Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have developed a way to create semiconductor islands smaller than 10 nanometers in scale, known as quantum dots. The islands, made from germanium and placed on the surface of silicon ...
Probing Question: Is it safe to pay my bills over the Internet?
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Managing your money is no easy task. While television commercials make it look easy to do all your banking online in just five minutes, on the next channel, insurance companies warn of crooks that will steal ...
2006 graphic cards debut new technology
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It began with a straight line and grew from there. At the dawn of the 1970s a few rectangles, when properly animated on a television screen, were used to create the groundbreaking video game "Pong." From there, ...
Vatican gives nod to Darwin, not Design
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The official Vatican newspaper has published an article praising as "correct" a recent U.S. court decision that intelligent design is not science.
New theory explains electronic and thermal behavior of nanotubes
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Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have made an important theoretical breakthrough in the understanding of energy dissipation and thermal breakdown in metallic carbon nanotubes. Their discovery will help move nanotube wires ...
Cosmic raise in cloud
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New evidence that events in outer space affect the weather and climate of Earth has been revealed in a study by meteorologists at the University of Reading published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society on Wednesday 18 Jan ...
New process may transform leather industry
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The Central Leather Research Institute in Adyar, India, says a new chemical process may revolutionize the world's leather-tanning industry.
Kicking Around a Nano-Sized Ball
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There's a bit of good-natured ribbing going on at the UW Madison Synchrotron Radiation Center, where researchers are hard at work to better understand Bucky Balls, the nickname for the famous molecule, Carbon-60 ...
Engineers Solve Chaos Mystery in Use of High-Tech Atomic Force Microscope
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Mechanical engineers at Purdue University have proven that the same sort of "deterministic chaos" behind the baffling uncertainties of the stock market and long-term weather conditions also interferes with ...
Astrophysical Device Will Sniff Out Terrorism
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Astrophysicists spend most of their time looking for objects in the sky, but 9/11 changed Ryan McLean's orientation.
