Chernobyl: 20 years later
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Chernobyl, the most significant accident in nuclear history, took place on 26 April 1986. Even 20 years later, the accident has left the world with many unanswered questions about its impact on human health, ...
Digital camera 'fingerprinting' developed
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Child pornographers will soon have a harder time escaping prosecution thanks to a stunning new technology in development at Binghamton University, State University of New York, that can reliably link digital images to the ...
Young chemical engineer on cutting edge of organic polymer-based electronics
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For most people, a little girl with a lollipop isn't what comes to mind when thinking of a future scientist. When she was just 4 years old, however, Zhenan Bao was conducting her first science experiment at ...
Why nerve cells work faster than the theory allows
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With accuracy unknown until now, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization and the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Göttingen together with the neurophysiologist Maxim ...
Florida Tech installs revolutionary mass spectrometer
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Florida Tech has become the first university with a doctoral, or research program, to own an instrument that is revolutionizing the work of old-fashioned mass spectrometers. The DART (Direct Analysis in Real Time) enables ...
Russian Satellite Failure Caused By Space Garbage
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The cause of the March 29 failure of the Russian Ekspress AM11 communications satellite has been confirmed as a collision with space trash, a Russian official told the state Novosti new agency Monday.
Scientists find new cause of Alzheimer's
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Belgium researchers say they are the first to demonstrate the quantity of amyloid protein in brain cells is a major factor of Alzheimer's disease.
What’s Lost Is Found Again: Virtually Rebuilding Our Heritage
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Native American cultures that once flourished in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and West Virginia constructed geometric and animal-shaped earth works that often rivaled Stonehenge in their astronomical accuracy.
Chemical Storage Units
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Oscillating chemical reactions occur far beyond thermodynamic equilibrium. The Belousov–Zhabotinsky (BZ) reactions are among the most thoroughly investigated of these. In the BZ reaction a dicarboxylic acid, for example, ...
The Web: WTO's gambling deadline missed
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A deadline imposed by The World Trade Organization for the Bush administration to clarify its stance on online gambling passed earlier this month, without a public response from the government, gaming experts are telling ...
Low cost Internet access at sea
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Through a project supported by the European Space Agency, the UK-based company Wired Ocean Ltd can now provide enhanced Internet access for ships at sea at a much lower cost than was previously possible. Although ...
'Word-vision' brain area confirmed
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French neuroscientists have ended a long controversy, confirming a specific area of the human brain plays a causal role in our ability to recognize words.
Samsung makes first 2GB phone memory card
Apr 19, 2006 |
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Samsung Wednesday unveiled a 2 gigabyte MultiMediaCard (MMCmicro) memory card that it called the "smallest, fastest and highest capacity memory card for mobile phones." It combines four 4Gbit NAND flash devices.
Dizzy Little Green Man - XMM-Newton Reveals a Tumbling Pulsar
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When the first pulsar was discovered, it was nicknamed LGM-1 or 'Little Green Man 1' because it was beaming such a regular signal into space. Now an international team of astronomers have discovered a pulsar ...
Japanese ice cores go back million years
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Scientists in Japan are studying ice core samples pulled from 2 miles deep in Antarctica and believed to be the oldest ever retrieved.
