Living Safely with Robots, Beyond Asimov's Laws
Jun 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- "In 1981, a 37-year-old factory worker named Kenji Urada entered a restricted safety zone at a Kawasaki manufacturing plant to perform some maintenance on a robot. In his haste, he failed ...
New method to detect quantum mechanical effects in ordinary objects
Jun 22, 2009 |
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At the quantum level, the atoms that make up matter and the photons that make up light behave in a number of seemingly bizarre ways. Particles can exist in "superposition," in more than one state at the same ...
Beyond CO2: Study reveals growing importance of HFCs in climate warming
Jun 22, 2009 |
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Some of the substances that are helping to avert the destruction of the ozone layer could increasingly contribute to climate warming, according to scientists from NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory and their colleagues ...
LED there be light
Jun 22, 2009 |
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Q: How many LED engineers does it take to change a light bulb?
Close relationship between past warming and sea-level rise
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 22, 2009 |
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Scientists from the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, along with colleagues from Tuebingen and Bristol have reconstructed sea-level fluctuations over the last 520,000 years. Comparison of this record with data on ...
Brain represents tools as temporary body parts, study confirms
Jun 22, 2009 |
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Researchers have what they say is the first direct proof of a very old idea: that when we use a tool—even for just a few minutes—it changes the way our brain represents the size of our body. In other words, ...
54-million-year-old skull reveals early evolution of primate brains
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Florida and the University of Winnipeg have developed the first detailed images of a primitive primate brain, unexpectedly revealing that cousins of our earliest ...
Work begins on world's deepest underground lab
Jun 22, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Far below the Black Hills of South Dakota, crews are building the world's deepest underground science lab at a depth equivalent to more than six Empire State buildings - a place uniquely suited to ...
Study describes evidence of world's oldest known granaries
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study coauthored by Ian Kuijt, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Notre Dame, describes recent excavations in Jordan that reveal evidence of the world's oldest ...
Underground cave dating from the year 1 A.D. exposed in Jordan Valley
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 22, 2009 |
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An artificial underground cave, the largest in Israel, has been exposed in the Jordan Valley in the course of a survey carried out by the University of Haifa's Department of Archaeology.
Dino-not-so-soaring
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 22, 2009 |
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The largest animals ever to have walked the face of the earth may not have been as big as previously thought, reveals a paper published today in the Zoological Society of London's Journal of Zoology.
Warmer ocean brings fewer sardines to S.Africa
Jun 22, 2009 |
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Millions of sardines have begun their annual migration down South Africa's east coast, but fewer fish are making the journey due to rising ocean temperatures, a researcher said Monday.
Competition may be reason for bigger brain
Jun 22, 2009 |
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For the past 2 million years, the size of the human brain has tripled, growing much faster than other mammals. Examining the reasons for human brain expansion, University of Missouri researchers studied three ...
Bringing Girls and Boys to Computer Science with 'Alice'
Jun 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Duke University computer scientist Susan Rodger is hoping ice skaters, cute animals and fearsome dragons will bring new talent to her field.
New NASA Missions to Reach Moon Tuesday, Sending Back Live Video
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Two NASA spacecraft will reach major mission milestones early Tuesday morning as they approach the moon -- one will send back live streaming imagery via the Internet as it swings by the moon, ...
