Improved Volumetric Displays May Lead to 3D Computer Monitors
Technology / Computer Sciences
Dec 22, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Volumetric 3D displays have been around for nearly a century, but they face several challenges that have prevented their use in widespread applications. Recently, a team of researchers from ...
Researchers discover new type of laser
Dec 22, 2008 |
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A Princeton-led team of researchers has discovered an entirely new mechanism for making common electronic materials emit laser beams. The finding could lead to lasers that operate more efficiently and at higher ...
Chocolate, wine and tea improve brain performance
Dec 22, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- All that chocolate might actually help finish the bumper Christmas crossword over the seasonal period. According to Oxford researchers working with colleagues in Norway, chocolate, wine and ...
Life got bigger in two, million-fold leaps, scientists say
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 22, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Extremes are exciting. Does anyone really think dinosaurs would capture our imagination the way they do if they hadn't been so huge? You don't see natural history museums vying for fossil skeletons ...
PS3s help astrophysicists solve mystery of black hole vibrations
Dec 22, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Using only the computing power of 16 Sony Playstation 3 gaming consoles, scientists at The University of Alabama in Huntsville and the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, have solved a ...
What Can Swiss Cheese Teach us About Dark Energy?
Dec 22, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- About 10 years ago, scientists reached the astonishing conclusion that our universe is accelerating apart at ever-increasing speeds, stretching space and time itself like melted cheese. The ...
Solving the mysteries of metallic glass
Dec 22, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at MIT and the National University of Singapore have made significant progress in understanding a class of materials that has resisted analysis for decades. Their findings could lead to the rapid ...
Math professor discovers chaos on a 'fluid trampoline'
Dec 22, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A water drop placed on a soap film that vibrates up and down may bounce as if on a trampoline -- but it's much more than that, according to MIT mathematicians who say the "fluid trampoline" ...
Microscopic meteorites show early life on Earth faced rain of rocks
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 22, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Microscopic meteorites found in Scotland have unveiled major clues about a catastrophic event which dramatically altered the Earth’s surface nearly 500 million years ago.
Dream of quantum computing closer to reality as mathematicians chase key breakthrough
Dec 22, 2008 |
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The ability to exploit the extraordinary properties of quantum mechanics in novel applications, such as a new generation of super-fast computers, has come closer following recent progress with some of the remaining underlying ...
Blind man walking: With no visual awareness, man navigates obstacle course flawlessly
Biology /
Dec 22, 2008 |
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Researchers have demonstrated for the first time that people can successfully navigate an obstacle course even after brain damage has left them with no awareness of the ability to see and no activity in the visual cortex, ...
To improve forecasting earthquakes, NJIT mathematician studies grains
Dec 22, 2008 |
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A new and better way to predict earthquakes and avalanches may soon be available to forecasters thanks to mathematical research underway at NJIT. Using mathematical modeling, researchers are investigating how forces and ...
Meteorite bounty on track for Canadian record
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 22, 2008 |
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A University of Calgary-organized team recovered more than one hundred meteorites from the November 20 meteorite fall southwest of Lloydminster, Saskatchewan/Alberta, which is expected to set a new Canadian ...
New research: Genes may influence popularity
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 22, 2008 |
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A groundbreaking study of popularity by a Michigan State University scientist has found that genes elicit not only specific behaviors but also the social consequences of those behaviors.
Leptin's long-distance call to the pancreas
Biology /
Dec 22, 2008 |
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Rube Goldberg—the cartoonist who devised complex machines for simple tasks—would have smiled at one of leptin's mechanisms for curbing insulin release. As Hinoi et al. show, the fat-derived hormone enlists ...
