Robot builds itself for special tasks
Feb 22, 2007 |
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In one of the latest studies on autonomous robots, scientists sat back and watched as their robot created itself out of smaller robotic modules. The result, called “swarm-bot,” comes in many varieties, depending ...
New evidence -- Clovis people not first to populate North America
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 22, 2007 |
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The belief that the Clovis People were the first to populate North America some 11,500 years ago has been widely challenged in recent years, and a Texas A&M University anthropologist has found evidence he says could be the ...
New engine helps satellites blast off with less fuel
Feb 22, 2007 |
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Georgia Tech researchers have developed a new protoype engine that allows satellites to take off with less fuel, opening the door for deep space missions, lower launch costs and more payload in orbit.
What is wrong with intelligent design?
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Feb 22, 2007 |
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In a thought-provoking paper from the March issue of The Quarterly Review of Biology, Elliott Sober (University of Wisconsin) clearly discusses the problems with two standard criticisms of intelligent design: that it is ...
Discovery Reveals that Distant Quasars Live in Massive Dark-Matter Halos
Feb 22, 2007 |
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The discovery of dark-matter halos surrounding clusters of quasars that are over 10-billion light years away from Earth has been announced by an international research team of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS).
XMM-Newton reveals a magnetic surprise
Feb 22, 2007 |
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ESA's X-ray observatory XMM-Newton has revealed evidence for a magnetic field in space where astronomers never expected to find one. The magnetic field surrounds a young star called AB Aurigae and provides ...
Expert: Wikipedia won't go away, so learn how to use it
Feb 22, 2007 |
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The popularity of Wikipedia makes it important that users learn to use the online collaborative encyclopedia as a starting point for their research rather than as the final word, says a Purdue University communications ...
Looking for life on Jupiter's moon Europa
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 22, 2007 |
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While NASA and the European Space Agency focus on Mars rovers and future missions to search for life on the Red Planet, a determined core of scientists is lobbying for equal attention to a place they feel is ...
Atlantic to Pacific feedback discovered
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 22, 2007 |
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French scientists say an exchange of water vapor from the Atlantic to the Pacific might be an important feedback mechanism for abrupt climatic changes.
The Genesis of Relativity
Feb 22, 2007 |
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New insights into the premises, assumptions and preconditions that underlie Einstein’s Relativity Theory, as well as the intellectual, and cultural contexts that shaped it, are the subject of a comprehensive study published ...
Peanut-Shaped Nanostructures
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Feb 22, 2007 |
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Tiny acorns that fuse together in pairs to form miniature peanuts – Japanese researchers have succeeded in producing peanut-shaped nanoparticles comprised of two different sulfur-containing substances. The ends of the “peanuts” ...
In presence of fragrant cleaning products, air purifiers that emit ozone can dirty the air
Feb 22, 2007 |
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Indoor air purifiers that produce even small quantities of ozone may actually make the air dirtier when used at the same time as household cleaning products, scientists at UC Irvine have discovered.
Chimpanzees found to use tools to hunt mammalian prey
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Feb 22, 2007 |
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Reporting findings that help shape our understanding of how tool use has evolved among primates, researchers have discovered evidence that chimpanzees, at least under some conditions, are capable of habitually ...
Honeydew honeys are better antioxidants than nectar honeys
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Feb 22, 2007 |
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A study of 36 Spanish honeys from different floral origins revealed that honeys generated by bees feeding on honeydew have greater antioxidant properties than those produced by bees feeding on nectar. The study is published ...
Liposuctioned fat stem cells to repair bodies
Feb 22, 2007 |
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Expanding waistlines, unsightly bulges: people will gladly remove excess body fat to improve their looks. But unwanted fat also contains stem cells with the potential to repair defects and heal injuries in the body. A team ...
