Archive: 01/23/2008
Volcanic deposits may aid lunar outposts
A U.S. study of radar images of the moon suggests deposits from early lunar volcanoes might be useful to astronauts at lunar stations.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 23, 2008 |
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NIST helps heat pumps 'go with the flow' to boost output
Air-source heat pumps typically deliver 1 1/2 to three times more heating energy to a home than the electric energy they consume. This is possible because heat pumps move heat rather than convert it from a ...
Jan 23, 2008 |
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Videos Extract Mechanical Properties of Liquid-Gel Interfaces
Blood coursing through vessels, lubricated cartilage sliding against joints, ink jets splashing on paper—living and nonliving things abound with fluids meeting solids. However important these liquid/solid ...
Jan 23, 2008 |
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Scientists Solve Problem of Quantum Dot 'Blinking'
Quantum dots—tiny, intense, tunable sources of colorful light—are illuminating new opportunities in biomedical research, cryptography and other fields. But these semiconductor nanocrystals also have a secret ...
Jan 23, 2008 |
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ND Expert: Fed’s rate cut risky for future
With the biggest one-day reduction of interest rates in history announced Tuesday, the Federal Reserve’s attempts to resuscitate the U.S. economy could be a mistake, according to University of Notre Dame economist Nelson ...
Jan 23, 2008 |
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Fruit Cell Wall Proteins Help Fungus Turn Tomatoes From Ripe to Rotten
Using tomatoes as a research plant, scientists at the University of California, Davis, have discovered that two plant enzymes that occur in the plant's cell walls cooperate with each other to make ripe fruit more susceptible ...
Biology /
Jan 23, 2008 |
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IBM Advances Web 2.0 Platform for Business
Today at Lotusphere, IBM unveiled a range of Web 2.0 and collaboration tools to enable enterprise mashups and social software, and help clients improve agility and speed decision-making for an increasingly virtual, global ...
Jan 23, 2008 |
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Synthesis of natural molecule could lead to better anti-cancer drugs
In early 2007, Northwestern University chemist Karl Scheidt’s interest was piqued when marine chemist Amy Wright reported in the Journal of Natural Products that a new natural compound derived from an uncommon deep-sea sponge ...
Jan 23, 2008 |
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Benefits outweigh risks from genetically modified plants
Australian states should not ban commercial production of genetically modified (GM) plants and food as the risks are alarmist and exaggerated, according to a new study.
Biology /
Jan 23, 2008 |
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New discovery on magnetic reconnection to impact future space missions
ESA’s Cluster mission has, for the first time, observed the extent of the region that triggers magnetic reconnection, and it is much larger than previously thought. This gives future space missions a much ...
Jan 23, 2008 |
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Stanford site advances science of turning 2-D images into 3-D models
An artist might spend weeks fretting over questions of depth, scale and perspective in a landscape painting, but once it is done, what's left is a two-dimensional image with a fixed point of view. But the ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jan 23, 2008 |
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Modifications Completed on NASA's New Research Aircraft
NASA's S-3 Viking aircraft returned home to NASA's Glenn Research Center after extensive modifications to transform it from a carrier-based military aircraft to a state-of-the-art icing research aircraft.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 23, 2008 |
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Chandra Lifts the Veil on Milky Way 'Hotspot'
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is helping to demystify Westerlund 2, a young star cluster with an estimated age of about one- or two-million years. Heavily obscured by dust and gas, Westerlund 2 has been ...
Jan 23, 2008 |
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Driving proves potentially hazardous for people with early Alzheimer's
A new study by researchers at Rhode Island Hospital and Brown University finds that people with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) experienced more accidents and performed more poorly on road tests compared to drivers without cognitive ...
Jan 23, 2008 |
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Scientists Find Evidence of Link Between Outdoor Ozone and Building-Related Health Symptoms
A team of researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has found evidence that the prevalence of building-related symptoms (BRS) increases with increasing ...
Jan 23, 2008 |
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