Traffic pollution - measuring the real damage
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Sep 21, 2005 |
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Traffic fumes from individual vehicles are decreasing every year as engines become cleaner, but there are more vehicles on the road and the number continues to grow. The long term effects of living in urban ...
Neutrons Born In Lightning
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Sep 21, 2005 |
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To produce thermonuclear reaction it is necessary, firstly, to have nuclei with a large quantity of neutrons available, for example, deuterium nuclei, and secondly, these nuclei should possess sufficiently high velocity and ...
Earth's Wobble Burps
Sep 21, 2005 |
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Open University researchers have uncovered startling new evidence about an extreme period of a sudden, fatal dose of global warming some 180 million years ago during the time of the dinosaurs. The scientists' findings could ...
How to avoid severe climate change discussed at CO2 conference
Sep 21, 2005 |
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The kind of devastation seen on the Gulf Coast from Hurricane Katrina may be a small taste of what is to come if emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) are not diminished soon, warns Dr. Ken Caldeira of the Car ...
Nature gives a lesson in armor design
Sep 21, 2005 |
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The ocean is a perilous environment for a soft-bodied creature like a sea snail, so nature gives it an advanced nanostructured armor system that is stiff and strong yet lightweight. It's called a shell. Now ...
Ants, not evil spirits, create devil's gardens in the Amazon rainforest, study finds
Sep 21, 2005 |
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For the first time, scientists have identified an ant species that produces its own natural herbicide to poison unwanted plants. Stanford University biologist Deborah M. Gordon and her co-workers describe the findings in ...
NEC Aims at Moto RAZR with World's Thinnest Fold-Type Mobile Phone
Sep 21, 2005 |
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NEC Corporation today announced that it has launched the world's thinnest fold-Type mobile phone with mega-pixel camera on the Hong Kong market. Following this, the ultra-thin model will also be introduced ...
Google helps find ancient Roman remains
Sep 21, 2005 |
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A computer programmer looking at Google Earth satellite images has reportedly discovered the remains of an ancient Roman villa near Sorbelo, Italy.
A new face for physics
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Sep 21, 2005 |
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Graduate student helps to shed stereotype Physicists have a problem. They are stuck with a stereotype. In this, the World Year of Physics 2005, which celebrates the 100th anniversary of the creation of three seminal pape ...
Study: Sugar helps control cell division
Sep 21, 2005 |
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Johns Hopkins scientists in Baltimore say they've discovered a deceptively simple sugar is really a critical regulator of cells' natural life cycle.
New Star Survey Sheds Light On Milky Way's Evolution
Sep 21, 2005 |
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The first survey of the entire northern Milky Way for forty years is shedding fresh light on the life-cycle of stars in our astronomical backyard.
First Baby Photo of Stellar Twins
Sep 21, 2005 |
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Newborn stars are difficult to photograph. They tend to hide in the nebulous stellar nurseries where they formed, enshrouded by thick layers of dust. Now, Smithsonian astronomer T.K. Sridharan (Harvard-Smithsonian ...
Researchers create functioning artificial proteins using nature's rules
Sep 21, 2005 |
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By examining how proteins have evolved, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have discovered a set of simple "rules" that nature appears to use to design proteins, rules the scientists have now employed to create artificial ...
Success in encapsulation of atomic-scale nanolines in epitaxial silicon
Sep 21, 2005 |
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Drs. Osami Sakata (Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute(JASRI) / SPring-8), Kazushi Miki (Nanomaterials Laboratory (NML), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)), David R. Bowler (International Centre for ...
Toshiba Develops 30Gb Dual-Layer HD DVD-R Discs
Sep 21, 2005 |
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Toshiba today reconfirmed the flexibility and expandability of the HD DVD format with the announcement of a 30GB dual-layer HD DVD-R (recordable) disc that extends the capacity for a write-once next generation DVD disc.
