Wide Awake on the Sea of Tranquillity
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 20, 2006 |
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Neil Armstrong was supposed to be asleep. The moonwalking was done. The moon rocks were stowed away. His ship was ready for departure. In just a few hours, the Eagle's ascent module would blast off the Moon, ...
Sandia work shows live cells influence growth of nanostructures
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jul 20, 2006 |
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Far above the heads of Earthlings, arrays of single-cell creatures are circling Earth in nanostructures. The sample devices are riding on the International Space Station (courtesy of Sandia National Laboratories ...
Examining How Headlight Glare May Affect Driver Behavior
Jul 20, 2006 |
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Lighting Research Center (LRC) has demonstrated that headlight glare may increase driver discomfort and result in poor visibility.
Bubbles go high-tech to fight tumors
Jul 20, 2006 |
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Bubbles: You've bathed in them, popped them, endured bad song lyrics about them. Now, University of Michigan researchers hope to add a more sophisticated application to the list---gas bubbles used like corks ...
Atomic-resolution structure of a ribozyme yields insights into RNA catalysis and the origins of life
Biology /
Jul 20, 2006 |
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Which came first, nucleic acids or proteins? This question is molecular biology's version of the "chicken-or-the-egg" riddle. Genes made of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA) contain the instructions for making proteins, but enzymes ...
Top Canadian superstring theorist inducted into Royal Society
Jul 20, 2006 |
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Rob Myers, Faculty member at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada has been named a Royal Society of Canada Fellow. Prof. Myers is only 1 of 10 distinguished scientists accepted into the ...
Magnetism and mimicry of nature hold hope for better medicine, environmental safety
Jul 20, 2006 |
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Critical advances in medicine and environmental protection promise to emerge from a new method for biochemical analysis of fluids developed by an international science team led in part by Arizona State University researchers.
Research explains how ecosystems survive in a constantly changing world
Biology /
Jul 20, 2006 |
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Ecological networks may struggle to survive the systematic changes our planet is undergoing, according to researchers from Queen Mary, University of London.
Seeing the Serpent
Biology /
Jul 20, 2006 |
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The ability to spot venomous snakes may have played a major role in the evolution of monkeys, apes and humans, according to a new hypothesis by Lynne Isbell, professor of anthropology at UC Davis. The work is published in ...
Time to ready your boat for a storm is now, UF researcher says
Jul 20, 2006 |
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Boat owners should prepare for a hurricane now, not when a storm is bearing down on them, a University of Florida Sea Grant specialist warns.
Skype to offer WiFi-capable cell phones
Jul 20, 2006 |
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Skype has teamed up with its hardware providers on a menu of cell phones that can accommodate Skype's Internet calling system via WiFi.
U.S. Senate praised for water legislation
Jul 20, 2006 |
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Environmental Defense is praising the U.S. Senate's Thursday passage of a reform amendment to the multi-billion-dollar Water Resources Development Act.
Biometrics for secure mobile communications
Jul 20, 2006 |
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Though security applications that verify a person's identity based on their physical attributes, such as fingerprint readers or iris scanners, have been in use for some time, biometric security has only recently ...
Youth are best judges of cellular content
Jul 20, 2006 |
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Downloading cellular content like ringtones, games and wallpaper is getting easier, and for that you have a Swedish 15-year-old to thank.
NASA assigns STS-122 crew
Jul 20, 2006 |
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NASA announced crew assignments Thursday for the STS-122 space shuttle mission, which is scheduled for October 2007.
