Hummingbird flight an evolutionary marvel
Jun 22, 2005 |
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Humans with an appreciation of beauty may have marveled for millennia at the artistry of a darting hummingbird, but scientists announced today that for the first time they can more fully explain how a hummingbird ...
Physicists create new form of matter
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Jun 22, 2005 |
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MIT scientists have brought a supercool end to a heated race among physicists: They have become the first to create a new type of matter, a gas of atoms that shows high-temperature superfluidity. Their wor ...
Researchers find evidence of photosynthesis deep within the ocean
Jun 22, 2005 |
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The discovery of green sulfur bacteria living near hydrothermal vents has major implications for where photosynthesis happens and where life may reside A team of researchers, including a photosynthesis expert from Arizona S ...
AMD introduces new AMD Turion ML-40
Jun 22, 2005 |
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AMD today introduced a new level of performance for highly mobile business professionals with AMD Turion 64 mobile technology model ML-40, the latest addition to AMD’s popular 64-bit processor family optimized for mobility.
UF builds record-setting 105 GHz chip
Jun 22, 2005 |
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Researchers have built a world-record high frequency chip using a common type of semiconductor, an advance that could lead to inexpensive systems for detecting hidden weapons, and chemical and biological agents. Engineers at ...
Colorful math reveals how forces transmit through granular materials
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Jun 22, 2005 |
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Using color-changing plastic cylinders as a stand-in for a mass of granular material, Duke University physicists have created a computer-testable method to predict, particle-by-particle, how pushes, nudges and shoves at the ...
Deep sea algae connect ancient climate, carbon dioxide and vegetation
Jun 22, 2005 |
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Assistant Professor Mark Pagani in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at Yale and his colleagues mapped the first detailed history of atmospheric carbon dioxide between 45 - 25 million years ago based on stable isotopes of ca ...
Dust belt around nearby star clear sign of exoplanet
Jun 22, 2005 |
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Astronomers zooming in on a nearby star with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered unmistakable evidence of a planetary system: a perturbed dusty belt around the star that's analogous to the vast Kuiper ...
Renesas and Hitachi Develop High-Speed Programming Technologies for Multilevel AG-AND Flash Memories
Jun 22, 2005 |
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Renesas Technology Corp. and Hitachi, Ltd. today announced that they have co-developed two high-speed programming technologies for AG-AND (Assist Gate-AND) flash memory*1 devices, high-speed data storage built with multilevel*2 ...
Study shows how granular materials get themselves out of a jam
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Jun 22, 2005 |
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Scientists probe complicated issues of seemingly simple phenomena University of Chicago physicists have made careful measurements of flowing sand that can help resolve longstanding questions regarding how glasses ...
Buckyball aggregates are soluble, antibacterial
Jun 22, 2005 |
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Research offers clues about C60 behavior in natural environments In some of the first research to probe how buckyballs will interact with natural ecosystems, Rice University's Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnol ...
Scientists discover the body's marijuana-like compounds are crucial for stress-induced pain relief
Jun 22, 2005 |
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A new study shows, for the first time, that the release of the body's own marijuana-like compounds is crucial to stress-induced analgesia – the body's way of initially shielding pain after a serious injury.
Mobile phone to facilitate consumers' wholesome food choices
Jun 22, 2005 |
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The Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT), together with the University of Kuopio and the Helsinki School of Economics, has developed a prototype for a service that can help consumers in their food choices. Consumers ...
Harmless virus kills some cancers
Jun 22, 2005 |
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Six days is all it takes for a common, non-disease-causing virus to kill cervical, breast, prostate and squamous cell cancer cells in laboratory cultures, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers.
Cosmos 1 Solar Sail Spacecraft: Update
Jun 22, 2005 |
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Cosmos 1 the first solar sail was launched as scheduled at 19:46 UTC today from the nuclear submarine Borisoglebsk. The three stage separations occurred normally, and 15 minutes after launch a doppler signal was received ...
