Scientists design new super-hard material
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 20, 2007 |
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Ultra-hard materials are used for everything from drills that bore for oil and build new roads to scratch-resistant coatings for precision instruments and the face of your watch.
Black Holes May Fill the Universe with Seeds of Life
Apr 20, 2007 |
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New research shows that black holes are not the ultimate destroyers that are often portrayed in popular culture. Instead, warm gas escaping from the clutches of enormous black holes could be one source of ...
Top 10 Internet Crimes of 2006
Apr 20, 2007 |
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What Internet crimes to people complain to the government about?
To understand the big picture, give it time -- and sleep
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 20, 2007 |
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Memorizing a series of facts is one thing, understanding the big picture is quite another. Now a new study demonstrates that relational memory -- the ability to make logical "big picture" inferences from disparate pieces ...
Scientists discover vast intergalactic plasma cloud
Apr 20, 2007 |
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Combining the world's largest radio telescope at Arecibo, Puerto Rico with a precision imaging, seven-antenna synthesis radio telescope at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory (DRAO), a team of researchers led by ...
Study shows how brain interprets surfaces
Apr 20, 2007 |
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Imagine looking at a pool of spilled milk. Your brain knows that it's milk and not another white substance like sugar, or cottage cheese, but how does it know?
Laser Acceleration of Electrons Excites Physicists
Apr 20, 2007 |
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A new experiment aims to accelerate electrons using dark red light.
How cells deal with uncertainty
Biology /
Apr 20, 2007 |
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Researchers at McGill University have found that cells respond to their ever-changing environment in a way that mimics the optimal mathematical approach to doing so, also known as Bayes’ rule; an application of probability ...
New pill would eliminate menstruation
Medicine & Health / Medications
Apr 20, 2007 |
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A new birth control pill that stops menstruation completely is expected to be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration next month.
Physicists Develop Force Law for Granular Impacts: Sand, Other Granular Matter's Behavior Is Better Defined
Apr 20, 2007 |
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Sand. A single grain is tiny, but solid, and shares the physical properties of other solid matter. But pack or transport millions of grains together - as modern society does with coffee grounds, flour and industrial chemicals ...
Research finds that culture is key to interpreting facial expressions
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 20, 2007 |
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Culture is a determining factor when interpreting facial emotions, according to new research.
Researchers Report Ability to Detect Cancer at Earliest, Curable Stage
Apr 20, 2007 |
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Researchers at the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego report that they have developed a new method for detecting cancer very early in its development, when it consists of just a few cells. The ...
Researcher: Tools Will Help Personalize ID Theft by 2010
Apr 20, 2007 |
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A well-known security expert demonstrates a framework at the CanSecWest conference that makes it easier for criminals to steal identifying data.
Gene study shows three distinct groups of chimpanzees
Apr 20, 2007 |
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The largest study to date of genetic variation among chimpanzees has found that the traditional, geography-based sorting of chimps into three populations—western, central and eastern—is underpinned by significant ...
Brain networks strengthened by closing ion channels
Apr 20, 2007 |
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Yale School of Medicine and University of Crete School of Medicine researchers report in Cell April 20 the first evidence of a molecular mechanism that dynamically alters the strength of higher brain network connections.
