Engine on a chip promises to best the battery
Sep 19, 2006 |
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MIT researchers are putting a tiny gas-turbine engine inside a silicon chip about the size of a quarter. The resulting device could run 10 times longer than a battery of the same weight can, powering laptops, ...
Imaging technology restores 700-year-old sacred Hindu text
Sep 19, 2006 |
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Scientists who worked on the Archimedes Palimpsest are using modern imaging technologies to digitally restore a 700-year-old palm-leaf manuscript containing the essence of Hindu philosophy.
Arctic summer ice anomaly shocks scientists
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 19, 2006 |
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Satellite images acquired from 23 to 25 August 2006 have shown for the first time dramatic openings – over a geographic extent larger than the size of the British Isles – in the Arctic’s perennial sea ice pack ...
A New Kind of Quantum Pump
Sep 19, 2006 |
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“We hope to apply quantum pumping to quantum computing architecture,” Ari Mizel, a professor at Penn State tells PhysOrg.com. In a world where scientists are striving to build quantum computing mechanisms and processes, variou ...
Life without a mouth, stomach, or gut
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Sep 19, 2006 |
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All living organisms are inhabited by a complex community of beneficial microorganisms that are essential for their development, health, and interactions with the environment. Often these microorganisms protect ...
Scientists discover a new healthy role for fat
Sep 19, 2006 |
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Too much body fat may be a bad thing, but there is increasing evidence that too little fat also may have some surprisingly negative consequences.
Superconductivity Project Addresses Urban Power Challenges
Sep 19, 2006 |
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Twenty thousand households in suburban Columbus, Ohio, are about to receive electricity through a high temperature superconducting cable developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Extent of Mercury Pollution More Widespread
Sep 19, 2006 |
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Mercury pollution is making its way into nearly every habitat in the U.S., exposing countless species of wildlife to potentially harmful levels of mercury, a new report from the National Wildlife Federation shows.
Mars echo from Italian radar reported
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 19, 2006 |
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Italian and U.S. space agency officials say they've received the first signals from an Italian radar orbiting Mars to search for water or ice on the planet.
New Material to Be Tested on International Space Station
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 19, 2006 |
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The Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) announced today it has delivered a suite of unique materials to NASA for testing on the International Space Station (ISS) sometime during the summer of 2007. The materials, ...
Unusual meteorite found in Antarctica
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 19, 2006 |
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U.S. scientists say they recovered an unusual meteorite late last year in Antarctica -- a type of lunar meteorite seen only once before.
Bird Moms Manipulate Birth Order to Protect Sons
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Sep 19, 2006 |
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According to a new study by scientists at the University of Arizona, female house finches are able to change their hormonal makeup to ensure male birds hatch later, grow faster and spend less time in the nest ...
At the core
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 19, 2006 |
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A few years ago, chemical analyses of deep sea muds that used a new X-ray technology were able to help explain why the Classic Mayan civilization collapsed more than a thousand years ago.
Ceramic microreactors developed for on-site hydrogen production
Sep 19, 2006 |
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Scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have designed and built ceramic microreactors for the on-site reforming of hydrocarbon fuels, such as propane, into hydrogen for use in fuel cells and other portable ...
You don't need a big lottery win for long term happiness… but a few thousand helps
Sep 19, 2006 |
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Researchers at the University of Warwick and Watson Wyatt have been examining just how much money one needs to win in the lottery to have a long term impact on personal happiness. Unsurprisingly the researchers found that ...
