UBC Engineers Create Vehicle that Travels from Vancouver to Halifax on a Gallon of Gas
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A team of engineering students from The University of British Columbia has built a vehicle so efficient that it could travel from Vancouver to Halifax on a gallon of gasoline.
The New New Math of String Theory
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At the beginning of the last century, Albert Einstein posited a now famous theory that forever linked geometry and fundamental physics. According to general relativity, spacetime is curved, and that curvature ...
Slow-frozen people? Latest research supports possibility of cryopreservation
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The latest research on water - still one of the least understood of all liquids despite a century of intensive study – seems to support the possibility that cells, tissues and even the entire human body could be cryopreserved ...
'Thirst for knowledge' may be opium craving
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Neuroscientists have proposed a simple explanation for the pleasure of grasping a new concept: The brain is getting its fix. The "click" of comprehension triggers a biochemical cascade that rewards the brain ...
Researchers Set Speed Record for Silicon-Based Chips
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A research team from IBM and the Georgia Institute of Technology has demonstrated the first silicon-germanium transistor able to operate at frequencies above 500 GHz. Though the record performance was attained ...
Measuring single qubits
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“In a quantum system,” explains Alexander Korotkov at the University of California, Riverside, “the result of a measurement can change the system so that it moves in the same direction as the result.” Testing this idea that ...
Physicists make an effervescent discovery
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Space is fizzing. Above our heads, where the Earth’s magnetic field meets the constant stream of gas from the Sun, thousands of bubbles of superheated gas are constantly growing and popping. Their discovery ...
German scientists find dyslexia gene
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German researchers say they've found a genetic component for the learning disability dyslexia, possibly opening new methods of treatment.
Evidence for ultra-energetic particles in jet from black hole
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An international team of astronomers led by researchers at Yale has obtained key infrared observations that reveal the nature of quasar particle jets that originate just outside super-massive black holes at ...
DALSA Semiconductor Delivers World’s First 100+ Million Pixel CCD Image Sensor
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DALSA Semiconductor, a division of DALSA Corporation, announced that it has successfully fabricated and delivered the world’s highest resolution image sensor chip to its customer, Semiconductor Technology Associates ...
Researchers discover which organs in Antarctic fish produce antifreeze
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Thirty-five years ago Arthur DeVries of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign first documented antifreeze glycoproteins (AFGPs) in Antarctic notothenioid fishes. This month three colleagues report ...
Nano World: Self-powered hydrogen sensors
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Jun 20, 2006 |
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Nanotechnological, inexpensive sensors that can detect invisible, odorless hydrogen leaks and sound the alarm wirelessly could help safeguard future vehicles and refueling stations based on the gas, experts told UPI's Nano ...
Synchronising the Swarm
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Models from theoretical physics, which are normally used to plot the motion of particles, are beginning to shed light upon the mass migration of living organisms as well. These include swarms of locusts, which ...
Proper UV protection for your eyes is important for summer
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We all know the importance of using sunscreen to protect our skin from the sun's harmful rays, but what about protection for our eyes? July is UV Safety Month and prolonged exposure to the sun's ultraviolet ...
Neurons grown from embryonic stem cells restore function in paralyzed rats
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For the first time, researchers have enticed transplants of embryonic stem cell-derived motor neurons in the spinal cord to connect with muscles and partially restore function in paralyzed animals. The study suggests that ...
