Future Computer Chips Could Be Cooled With Nanofluid
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“This is the next generation of cooling devices,” Dr. Hongbin Ma tells PhysOrg.com. With a group of students at the University of Missouri-Columbia, and colleagues at Argonne National Laboratory and Intel Corporation, Ma ...
Lunar Dust Buster
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Ever get a fragile item packed in a box filled with Styrofoam peanuts? Plunge your hands into the foam peanuts to search for the item, and when you pull it out foam peanuts are clinging to your arms. Try to ...
Galaxies cluster near dark matter, study finds
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Try mixing caramel into vanilla ice cream -- you will always end up with globs and swirls of caramel. Scientists are finding that galaxies may distribute themselves in similar ways throughout the universe and ...
Scientists penetrate fossil magma chamber beneath intact ocean crust
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Pacific Ocean, approximately 800 km west of Costa Rica—An international team of scientists aboard the research drilling ship JOIDES Resolution has—for the first time—recovered black rocks known as gabbros from i ...
Scientists detect massive rivers under Antarctica
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British scientists have discovered rivers the size of the Thames in London flowing hundreds of miles under the Antarctica ice shelf by examining small changes in elevation, observed by ESA’s ERS-2 satellite, ...
Crystal tears
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"For a tear is an intellectual thing", said William Blake in Jerusalem, and Peter Petrov of the University of Exeter and colleagues have shown how right he was. They have found that tears, far from being merely salty water ...
A young Mars most likely to support life, new mineral history shows
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Mars started out relatively wet and temperate, underwent a major climate shift, and evolved into a cold, dry place strewn with acidic rock – less than ideal conditions for supporting life.
Ancient and Modern Evidence Suggests Limits to Future Global Warming
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Duke-led research team ran some 1,000 computer simulations, covering 1,000 years, to get a longer-range assessment of the highest likely readings.
Gerald Rubin: Science far too conservative
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute Director Gerald Rubin says academic and industrial research models have become far too conservative.
Study finds sex changes men's behavior
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A new study finds men with higher levels of testosterone are more likely to make irrational decisions when shown sexual images.
Infrared Space Observatory provides the first view of monstrous stars being born
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Scientists have secured their first look at the birth of monstrous stars that shine 100 000 times more brightly than the Sun, thanks to ESA’s Infrared Space Observatory (ISO). The discovery allows astronomers ...
The logic of life
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Even though the entire human genome has now been 'read' - the chemical composition of our DNA has been more or less mapped out, gene by gene - we still have a rather poor grasp of how living cells actually work. That's because ...
Probing Question: If a blind person gained sight, could they recognize objects previously touched?
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Most people conceptualize the world largely based on sight, and would find it difficult to function using touch alone. Think about finding the keyhole on your car door at night, or locating that light switch in a dark room. ...
On a fly’s wing, scientists tally evolution's winners and losses
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A team of scientists from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have revealed the discovery of the molecular mechanisms that allow animals to switch genes on or off to gain ...
BitTorrent gaining more acceptance
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In the world of the Internet, a new idea can be either an asset or a threat. It depends on your perspective. BitTorrent, the popular peer-to-peer file sharing technology, poses exactly this conundrum to Internet service providers ...
