Robotic crawler detects wear in power lines
Dec 22, 2006 |
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To your left runs a high-voltage power cable that is worn, but still physically sound. To your right runs a cable that looks identical, but damaged insulation means the cable is vulnerable to a short. Can you tell the difference?
Rare mongoose found in Tanzania
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Dec 22, 2006 |
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The Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) announced today that a camera-trap study in the mountains of Southern Tanzania has now recorded Africa’s least-known and probably rarest carnivore: Jackson’s ...
Winning by a neck -- Giraffes avoid competing with shorter browsers
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Dec 22, 2006 |
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The giraffe's elongated neck has long been used in textbooks as an illustration of evolution by natural selection, but this common example has received very little experimental attention.
'Vortex lattices' may help explain material defects
Dec 22, 2006 |
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What do you get when you superimpose a rotating pattern of intersecting laser beams on a spinning cloud of ultracold atoms in a thin gas? Pretty pictures, for one thing--but also a new method that could be ...
Bears not sleeping during warm winter
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Dec 22, 2006 |
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Scientists, calling it another sign of climate change, say European brown bears have stopped hibernating in the mountains of northern Spain.
New Antarctic Drilling Record to Yield Major Climate Data
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 22, 2006 |
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The Antarctic Geological Drilling (ANDRILL) Program drilled to a new record depth of 1,000 meters below the seafloor from the site on the Ross Ice Shelf near Scott Base in Antarctica on Dec. 16, making ANDRILL the most successful ...
How does aspirin crystallize?
Dec 22, 2006 |
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When you get a headache, you probably reach for aspirin. What is giving researchers a headache is the question of the crystal structure of aspirin. Is there another form on top of the long-known one?
Trans fat ban: Watch saturated fats and calories too
Dec 22, 2006 |
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In December, New York City passed a law to phase out the use of trans fat in restaurants. Other cities, including Boston and Chicago, might follow suit. According to Alice H. Lichtenstein, DSc, Gershoff professor of nutrition ...
Adenine ‘Tails’ Make Tailored Anchors for DNA
Dec 22, 2006 |
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Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Naval Research Laboratory and the University of Maryland have demonstrated a deceptively simple technique for chemically bonding single ...
EU sets fish quotas for 2007
Dec 22, 2006 |
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The European Union fisheries ministers have set the 2007 limits for fish catches in European waters.
Repair Costs of Seismic Test House Could Have Been Prohibitive
Dec 22, 2006 |
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While the group of 200-plus faculty, students and media spectators who gathered at the Structural Engineering and Earthquake Simulation Laboratory (SEESL) at the University at Buffalo on Nov. 14 to watch the ...
Science group posts interactive Web site
Dec 22, 2006 |
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The San Francisco-based Public Library of Science says its online journal will post research and allow interactive review before and after publication.
Forget teenagers -- seniors got game
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 22, 2006 |
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Seniors should fold the cards in favor of video games to keep mentally sharp, Canadian researchers suggest.
Discovery's manifest includes ponytail
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 22, 2006 |
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U.S. astronaut Sunita Williams, assigned to the International Space Station, sent a present home with the Discovery space shuttle crew -- a ponytail.
Risk factors for hypertension start young
Dec 22, 2006 |
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By age 10, some black children already have high nighttime blood pressure, an early signal of impending cardiovascular disease, a new study shows.
