sQuba: World's First Underwater Car
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A Swiss company called Rinspeed has recently announced its newest project: an underwater car. Named "sQuba," the car can both drive on roads, and then - at the push of a button - dive up to 10 meters (33 feet) ...
Tribute to MIT Physics Prof Lewin: Free-On-Line MIT Courses
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is offering 1800 full courses on-line to the public at no charge. In part the work of Professor Walter H.G. Lewin of MIT is the reason for the popularization of higher ...
The Quest for a New Class of Superconductors
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Fifty years after the Nobel-prize winning explanation of how superconductors work, a research team from Los Alamos National Laboratory, the University of Edinburgh and Cambridge University are suggesting another ...
'Nanocavity' Sensor Detects Virus-Sized Particles
Dec 20, 2007 |
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Scientists have created a nanoscale device that is capable of detecting one quadrillionth of a gram of biological matter, or about the size of certain viruses. In the future, the sensor may be able to detect ...
Physicists find new explanation for superconductivity's 'glue'
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A team of Boston College researchers led by Asst. Prof. Vidya Madhavan (Physics) has identified an alternative explanation for the microscopic origins of the “glue” that binds electrons during high-temperature superconductivity, ...
'Kind and Gentle' Molecular Machine Could Operate at Near-Equilibrium
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Molecular machines – tiny machines made of molecules that do mechanical work – are usually thought to operate in a state of non-equilibrium. This makes sense, considering that macro-sized machines operate ...
To curious aliens, Earth would stand out as living planet
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With powerful instruments scouring the heavens, astronomers have found more than 240 planets in the past two decades, none likely to support Earth-like life.
Scientists Find Good News About Methane Bubbling Up From the Ocean Floor Near Santa Barbara
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 20, 2007 |
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Methane, a potent greenhouse gas, is emitted in great quantities as bubbles from seeps on the ocean floor near Santa Barbara. About half of these bubbles dissolve into the ocean, but the fate of this dissolved methane remains ...
Nanovideo captures motion of RNA molecules in 3-D
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Dec 20, 2007 |
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You may not find it on YouTube, but Hashim Al-Hashimi's video could create quite a stir in scientific circles.
10,000 Earths' Worth of Fresh Dust Found Near Star Explosion
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Astronomers have at last found definitive evidence that the universe's first dust – the celestial stuff that seeded future generations of stars and planets – was forged in the explosions of massive stars. ...
How Cagey Electrons Keep Hydrated
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Water, despite its essential role in nature, remains a deeply mysterious substance. A long list of water's unusual properties tantalizes researchers even today, and scientists at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation ...
Life's 6-legged survivors -- evolutionary study shows beetles are in it for the long run
Biology /
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Most modern-day groups of beetles have been around since the time of the dinosaurs and have been diversifying ever since, says new research out in Science today.
Astronomer Triggers Public’s Online Search for Overlapping Galaxies
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Armchair astronomers using the galaxyzoo.org Web site have identified more than 500 overlapping galaxies in the local Universe when astronomers had previously only known of 20 such systems.
El Nino affected by global warming
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 20, 2007 |
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The climatic event El Niño, literally “the Baby Jesus”, was given its name because it generally occurs at Christmas time along the Peruvian coasts. This expression of climatic variability, also called El Niño Southern Oscillation ...
Research on how plants transport sugars could be of critical importance in era of global warming
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How do many plants ship sugars from their leaves to flowers, roots, fruits and other parts of their structure? Using genetic engineering techniques, Cornell researchers have finally proven a long-standing ...
