How Time-Traveling Could Affect Quantum Computing
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(PhysOrg.com) -- If space-time were constructed in such a way that you could travel back in time, it would create some pretty strange effects. One of these oddities, as many people know, is the “grandfather paradox.” Here, ...
Caltech 4-D microscope revolutionizes the way we look at the nano world
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More than a century ago, the development of the earliest motion picture technology made what had been previously thought "magical" a reality: capturing and recreating the movement and dynamism of the world ...
'Fish technology' draws renewable energy from slow water currents
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Slow-moving ocean and river currents could be a new, reliable and affordable alternative energy source. A University of Michigan engineer has made a machine that works like a fish to turn ...
Dell Talking About 80-Core Chip Processor
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(PhysOrg.com) -- This week Michael Dell (CEO of Dell) gave a slide presentation that included Intel´s recently developed 80-core processor. This isn't the first time that the 80-core chip was mentioned in ...
Study suggests attending religious services sharply cuts risk of death
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
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A study published by researchers at Yeshiva University and its medical school, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, strongly suggests that regular attendance at religious services reduces the risk of death by approximately ...
Evidence of vast frozen water reserves on Mars: scientists
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
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Vast Martian glaciers of water ice under protective blankets of rocky debris persist today at much lower latitudes than any ice previously identified on Mars, says new research using ground-penetrating radar ...
Discovery of giant roaming deep sea protist provides new perspective on animal evolution
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Groove-like tracks on the ocean floor made by giant deep-sea single-celled organisms could lead to new insights into the evolutionary origin of animals, says biologist Mikhail "Misha" Matz from The University ...
New material could make gases more transportable
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Chemists at the University of Liverpool have developed a way of converting methane gas into a powder form in order to make it more transportable.
Hubble Resolves Puzzle about Loner Starburst Galaxy
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have long puzzled over why a small, nearby, isolated galaxy is pumping out new stars faster than any galaxy in our local neighborhood.
Common cold virus came from birds
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A virus that causes cold-like symptoms in humans originated in birds and may have crossed the species barrier around 200 years ago, according to an article published in the December issue of the Journal of General Virology. ...
When the Stress is Critical, Avoid Pseudoscience, Psychologist Says
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A case study of Critical Incident Stress Debriefing, known as CISD, shows that this approach to crisis management meets all criteria for a pseudoscience. The good news is that scientifically validated approaches ...
A simple blood test for colon cancer
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People are often reluctant to undergo a routine but painful colonoscopy -- but the consequences can be fatal. According to the American Cancer Society, colon cancer is the third most common cancer found in American men ...
Sea level rise alters bay's salinity
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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While global-warming-induced coastal flooding moves populations inland, the changes in sea level will affect the salinity of estuaries, which influences aquatic life, fishing and recreation.
Carbon Nanotubes Detect Lung Cancer Markers in the Breath
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Using an array of nanotube devices, each coated with a different organic material, researchers at the Israel Institute of Technology have developed diagnostic system that may be able to diagnose lung cancer ...
Carbon Nanotubes Improve Protein Array Detection Limits
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
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(PhysOrg.com) -- To detect cancer as early as possible, dozens of research groups are developing methods to detect trace levels of cancer-related proteins and genes in blood or other biological samples. Those efforts should ...
