Professor demonstrates new hydrogen fuel system
Feb 23, 2007 |
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Northern Nevada energy consumers can be excused if they have a sense of "sticker shock" when their power bills come due following the holiday season. Or, that they have a feeling of powerlessness as the price of gasoline ...
Chain Mail Fabric a Perfect Fit
Feb 23, 2007 |
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Contemporaries of the ancient Greeks might find something familiar within the walls of the Micro and Nanotechnology Lab at the University of Illinois. In constructing a new type of smart fabric, researchers ...
Study finds advanced 20th-century geometry in 15th-century tilings
Feb 23, 2007 |
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Intricate decorative tilework found in medieval architecture across the Islamic world appears to exhibit advanced decagonal quasicrystal geometry -- a concept discovered by Western mathematicians and physicists ...
Camping on the Moon Will Be One Far Out Experience
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 23, 2007 |
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If Earth had a mountain so incredibly high that its peak poked through the outermost layer of our atmosphere, mountain climbers smart enough and hardy enough to reach the top would have some idea what it will ...
Climate changes, Cod collapse have altered North Atlantic ecosystems
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 23, 2007 |
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Ecosystems along the continental shelf waters of the Northwest Atlantic Ocean, from the Labrador Sea south of Greenland all the way to North Carolina, are experiencing large, rapid changes, reports a Cornell oceanographer ...
Fluid dynamics theory works on nanoscale outside vacuum
Feb 23, 2007 |
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In 2000, Georgia Tech researchers showed that fluid dynamics theory could be modified to work on the nanoscale, albeit in a vacuum. Now, seven years later they've shown that it can be modified to work in the ...
Probing Question: Are today's nuclear power plants safe?
Feb 23, 2007 |
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Burning fossil fuels to make electricity releases many tons of carbon into the atmosphere, contributing to global warming. Today, as the United States and other nations search for "greener" ways of generating ...
Unique observations of Comet McNaught reveal sprinkling nucleus
Feb 23, 2007 |
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Comet McNaught, the Great Comet of 2007, has been delighting those who have seen it with the unaided eye as a spectacular display in the evening sky. Pushing ESO's New Technology Telescope to its limits, a ...
No Safe Place
Feb 23, 2007 |
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Imagine hiking across Antarctica, through ice, cold and bitter wind, enduring months of hardship, and finally arriving at the doorstep of the South Pole itself. At that moment you get hit by a Sahara sandstorm.
1 in 3 boys heavy porn users, study shows
Feb 23, 2007 |
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Boys aged 13 and 14 living in rural areas, are the most likely of their age group to access pornography, and parents need to be more aware of how to monitor their children’s viewing habits, according to a new University of ...
Low-cost Parkinson's disease diagnostic test a world first
Feb 23, 2007 |
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Scientists at Melbourne 's Howard Florey Institute have developed a cost-effective diagnostic test for Parkinson's disease (PD), which will also assist researchers to understand the genetic basis of PD and to undertake large-scale ...
Genetic hearing loss may be reversible without gene therapy
Feb 23, 2007 |
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A large proportion of genetically caused deafness in humans may be reversible by compensating for a missing protein, based on discoveries in mice.
New measure of sexual arousal found for both men and women
Feb 23, 2007 |
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According to a new study published in the latest issue of The Journal of Sexual Medicine and conducted in the Department of Psychology of McGill University, thermography shows great promise as a diagnostic method of measur ...
Assumptions lead to miscommunication
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 23, 2007 |
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Some of people's biggest problems with communication come in sharing new information with people they know well, U.S. researchers said.
Caffeine may prevent heart disease death in elderly
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Habitual intake of caffeinated beverages provides protection against heart disease mortality in the elderly, say researchers at SUNY Downstate Medical Center and Brooklyn College.
