Archive: 07/20/2007
Snail offers clue to how anesthetics work
A group of London researchers learned additional details concerning how anesthetics work on the human body by analyzing a snail's nervous system.
Jul 20, 2007 |
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UCF, Holochip in Licensing Agreement for Zoom Lens Patents
The University of Central Florida has signed a licensing agreement with Holochip Corp. for a portfolio of technologies that will allow zoom lenses, such as those used in digital cameras and camera phones, ...
Jul 20, 2007 |
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Study Sheds Light on Why Humans Walk on Two Legs
A team of anthropologists that studied chimpanzees trained to use treadmills has gathered new evidence suggesting that our earliest apelike ancestors started walking on two legs because it required less energy ...
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Jul 20, 2007 |
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HiRISE Catches a Dust Devil on Mars
The University of Arizona-based High Resolution Imaging Experiment (HiRISE) group this week released a good look at a dust devil on Mars. This is not the storm bedeviling NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 20, 2007 |
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Rovers begin new observations on changing Martian atmosphere
Mars rover scientists have launched a new long-term study on the Martian atmosphere with the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer, an instrument that was originally developed at the University of Chicago.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 20, 2007 |
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Keeping GLAST on Track
Thanks to the work of a team of physicists at SLAC, a technique used for years in physics experiments such as BaBar will soon help researchers monitor the performance of the Gamma Ray Large Area Space Telescope ...
Jul 20, 2007 |
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Unique Material May Allow Capacitors to Store More Energy
Imagine an electric car with the same acceleration capability as a gas-powered sports car, or ultrafast rechargeable “batteries” that can be recharged a thousand times more than existing conventional batteries. According ...
Jul 20, 2007 |
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N.C. Wyeth's coloring technique revealed by Cornell's synchrotron as it uncovers eight decades of paint
The pentimento of a flying fist, just visible beneath layers of paint, triggered an investigation of N.C. Wyeth's "Family Portrait" at the Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford, Pa. A simple X-ray revealed ...
Jul 20, 2007 |
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Researchers Find New Way To Fabricate Striped Nanorods
Superlatticed or “striped" nanorods – crystalline materials only a few molecules in thickness and made up of two or more semiconductors – are highly valued for their potential to serve in a variety of nanodevices, ...
Jul 20, 2007 |
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Carbon dioxide plan reviewed in Washington
A California executive appeared before a Congressional committee in Washington to defend his unusual carbon dioxide reduction plans.
Jul 20, 2007 |
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Calif. nuclear site to undergo study
Officials at the U.S. Department of Energy have ordered an in-depth environmental review of California's Santa Susana Field Lab.
Jul 20, 2007 |
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Internet via power lines set to launch
A plan to offer consumers Internet access through their home's power lines may soon come to fruition for residents of Grand Ledge, Mich.
Jul 20, 2007 |
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NASA Robots Practice Moon Survey in the Arctic Circle
Two NASA robots are surveying a rocky, isolated polar desert within a crater in the Arctic Circle. The study will help scientists learn how robots could evaluate potential outposts on the moon or Mars.
Jul 20, 2007 |
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Mars Rovers Braving Severe Dust Storms
Having explored Mars for three-and-a-half years in what were missions originally designed for three months, NASA's Mars rovers are facing perhaps their biggest challenge.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 20, 2007 |
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Physicists get ultra-sharp glimpse of electrons
MIT physicists have developed a spectroscopy technique that allows researchers to inspect the world of electrons confined to a two-dimensional plane more clearly than ever before.
Jul 20, 2007 |
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