Researchers may have solved information loss paradox to find black holes do not form
Jun 20, 2007 |
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"Nothing there," is what Case Western Reserve University physicists concluded about black holes after spending a year working on complex formulas to calculate the formation of new black holes. In nearly 13 ...
New View of Doomed Star
Jun 20, 2007 |
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Eta Carinae is a mysterious, extremely bright and unstable star located a mere stone's throw - astronomically speaking - from Earth at a distance of only about 7500 light years. The star is thought to be ...
Carbon nanotube injectors probe living cells without damage
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jun 20, 2007 |
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In order to investigate the processes that go on inside a single human cell—or even specific subcellular compartments—researchers need a device that is small and controlled enough to pass through ...
Engineers develop higher-energy liquid-transportation fuel from sugar
Jun 20, 2007 |
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Plants absorb carbon dioxide from the air and combine it with water molecules and sunshine to make carbohydrate or sugar. Variations on this process provide fuel for all of life on Earth.
Another step toward a liquid telescope on the moon
Jun 20, 2007 |
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An international team including researcher Ermanno Borra, from Université Laval’s Center for Optics, Photonics, and Laser, has taken another step toward building a liquid telescope on the moon. The researchers have found ...
Brain's inertial navigation system pinpointed
Jun 20, 2007 |
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Researchers have discovered a sophisticated neural computer, buried deep in the cerebellum, that performs inertial navigation calculations to figure out a person’s movement through space.
Scientists demonstrate high-performing room-temperature nanolaser
Jun 20, 2007 |
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Scientists at Yokohama National University in Japan have built a highly efficient room-temperature nanometer-scale laser that produces stable, continuous streams of near-infrared laser light. The overall device has a width ...
Giant magnetocaloric materials could lead to new refrigeration technologies
Jun 20, 2007 |
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Materials that change temperature in magnetic fields could lead to new refrigeration technologies that reduce the use of greenhouse gases, thanks to new research at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne ...
Geophysicists detect a molten rock layer deep below the American Southwest
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 20, 2007 |
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A sheet of molten rock roughly 10 miles thick spreads underneath much of the American Southwest, some 250 miles below Tucson, Ariz. From the surface, you can't see it, smell it or feel it.
The Medical Minute: Migraines
Jun 20, 2007 |
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What do lightning bolts, numb arms, grumpy moods, missed parties and nightmare headaches have in common? These all represent experiences of many migraine sufferers ("migraineurs"). An estimated 28 million U.S. citizens suffer ...
World's Largest Vacuum Chamber to Test Orion
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 20, 2007 |
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Before NASA's new spacecraft, Orion, carries the next generation of explorers into space, it first will make a shorter journey to the world's largest vacuum chamber. In this massive, cathedral-like structure, ...
Physicists explain thunderstorm 'sprites'
Jun 20, 2007 |
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U.S. physicists have determined "sprites" -- bright bursts of light seen in thunderstorms -- travel at 1-10th the speed of light.
Male circumcision overstated as prevention tool against AIDS
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jun 20, 2007 |
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In new academic research published today in the online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal PLoS ONE, male circumcision is found to be much less important as a deterrent to the global AIDS pandemic than previously ...
Researchers develop buckyballs to fight allergy
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jun 20, 2007 |
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A research team has identified a new biological function for a soccer ball-shaped nanoparticle called a buckyball – the ability to block allergic response, setting the stage for the development of new therapies for allergy.
Surprising origin of cell's internal highways
Jun 20, 2007 |
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Scientists have long thought that microtubules, part of the microscopic scaffolding that the cell uses to move things around in order to hold its shape and divide, originated from a tiny structure near the nucleus, called ...
