New fuel-cell technology could help power future vehicles
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In the lab and classroom of Stanford mechanical engineering Professor Fritz Prinz, fuel cell technology is cooler than ever — literally and figuratively. In four papers presented at an Electrochemical Society conference in ...
Good hygiene might prevent bird flu spread
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A Purdue University scientist says there's a lot people can do to help prevent a bird flu pandemic, with the most obvious being good hygiene.
Study: Junk DNA is critically important
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A University of California-San Diego scientist says genetic material derisively called "junk" DNA is important to an organism's evolutionary survival.
Zombie worms found in Britain's North Sea
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So-called zombie worms that feed on bones of dead whales have reportedly been found in England's North Sea. Scientists say the worms belong to a new class of marine organism that scavenges whale carcasses, The Independent rep ...
Hubble Prospects For Resources on The Moon
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America has always been a land of pioneers, from the first settlers to those who moved west in the 1800s. As they started their new lives in new places, these men and women had to learn to live off of the ...
Advocates crack printer identifier code
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A privacy group says it cracked the code used by color printers to leave an identifying watermark on documents that can be traced by the U.S. government.
Mental stimulation helps raise IQ scores
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University of the West Indies scientists in Jamaica say mental stimulation through play might improve IQ scores in children with stunted growth.
Ethanol's agricultural impact is mixed
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Purdue University economists say converting more corn into ethanol might profit many interests, but not all in the agriculture industry would benefit.
Wright Brothers Upstaged! Dinos Invented Biplanes
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The evolution of airplanes from the Wright Brothers' first biplanes to monoplanes was an inadvertent replay of the much earlier evolution of dinosaur flight, say two dino flight experts.
Study: lighting and how it affects health
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute scientists in Troy, N.Y., say they've discovered a way of testing architectural lighting and how it affects human health.
Where the brain combines what's heard and felt
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Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany have showed that the integration of auditory and touch information takes place in the 'hearing ...
Mountain Winds May Create Atmospheric Hotspots
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Rapidly fluctuating wind gusts blowing over mountains and hills can create "hotspots" high in the atmosphere and significantly affect regional air temperatures.
China upset with Google's Taiwan map
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Mainland media control over Chinese-language content took a blow Wednesday with state press claiming rage after Mountain View, Calif.-based Internet giant Google removed referrals to Taiwan as a province.
Science Finds New Patterns
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People love patterns. Our brains readily organize the stream of information from our senses to find pattern, structure and connections. Our pattern-finding ability lets us understand the world in front of us; sometimes it ...
ASU professor to explore DNA based computing
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Arizona State University School of Life Sciences professor Wayne Frasch was recently awarded a $1.2 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U.S. Air Force Office of Science Research to fund ...
