Scientists Make 'Perfect' Nanowires
Jan 23, 2008 |
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Scientists have created silicon nanowires that are perfect—at least atomically. Down at the single-atom level, the identical wires have no bumps, bends, or other imperfections. They are perfectly crystalline, even more so ...
Seismic images show dinosaur-killing meteor made bigger splash
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 23, 2008 |
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The most detailed three-dimensional seismic images yet of the Chicxulub crater, a mostly submerged and buried impact crater on the Mexico coast, may modify a theory explaining the extinction of 70 percent of life on Earth ...
Ants and Avalanches: Insects on Coffee Plants Follow Widespread Natural Tendency
Jan 23, 2008 |
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Ever since a forward-thinking trio of physicists identified the phenomenon known as self-organized criticality---a mechanism by which complexity arises in nature---scientists have been applying its concepts ...
'Readius' Cell Phone First to Incorporate Foldable E-Display
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jan 23, 2008 |
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Polymer Vision, a spin-off company from Philips, has recently announced the first cell phone to offer a roll-up e-display for reading your favorite Web sites. The 5-inch (13-cm)-diagonal display rolls out ...
Scientists Solve Problem of Quantum Dot 'Blinking'
Jan 23, 2008 |
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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 ...
New Antarctic ice core to provide clearest climate record yet
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 23, 2008 |
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After enduring months on the coldest, driest, and windiest continent on Earth, researchers today closed out the inaugural season on an unprecedented, multi-year effort to retrieve the most detailed record ...
New discovery on magnetic reconnection to impact future space missions
Jan 23, 2008 |
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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 ...
Stanford site advances science of turning 2-D images into 3-D models
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jan 23, 2008 |
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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 ...
Scientists look at those in evolutionary race who don't make it 'out of the gate'
Biology /
Jan 23, 2008 |
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In the race of evolution, scientists until now have only looked at winners and losers. Now, they’ve come up with a way to look at the contenders who never made it out of the gate.
New method enables design, production of extremely novel drugs
Jan 23, 2008 |
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A new chemical synthesis method based on a catalyst worth many times the price of gold and providing a far more efficient and economical method than traditional ones for designing and manufacturing extremely novel pharmaceutical ...
Music therapy may offer hope for people with depression
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 23, 2008 |
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A therapist may be able to use music to help some patients fight depression and improve, restore and maintain their health, states a Systematic Review from The Cochrane Library.
Chandra Lifts the Veil on Milky Way 'Hotspot'
Jan 23, 2008 |
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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 ...
Nanotubes Go With the Flow
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jan 23, 2008 |
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Carbon nanotubes are attractive candidates for use as the active elements in the next generation of electronic devices. However, it has proven incredibly difficult to align nanotubes within device architectures.
Computer-based tool aids research, helps thwart questionable publication practices
Jan 23, 2008 |
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A new computer-based text-searching tool developed by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers automatically – and quickly – compares multiple documents in a database for similarities, providing a more efficient ...
Internal Heat Drives Jupiter's Giant Storm Eruption
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 23, 2008 |
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Detailed analysis of two continent-sized storms that erupted in Jupiter's atmosphere in March 2007 shows that Jupiter's internal heat plays a significant role in generating atmospheric disturbances.
