Flat, Flexible, Wireless Power Source Can Go Anywhere
May 23, 2007 |
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A team of Japanese researchers has created a novel wireless power-transmission device that is thin, flat, and flexible. Based on a sheet of plastic, the device can be put on desks, floors, walls, and almost ...
Did a comet hit the Great Lakes region and fragment human populations 12,900 years ago?
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 23, 2007 |
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Multi-institutional 26-member team of researchers propose a startling new theory: that an extraterrestrial impact, possibly a comet, set off a 1,000-year-long cold spell and wiped out or fragmented the prehistoric Clovis ...
Scientists build an 'ice top' at the bottom of the world
May 23, 2007 |
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The University of Delaware is helping to build a huge "IceCube" at the South Pole, and it has nothing to do with cooling beverages.
Novel sugar-to-hydrogen technology promises transportation fuel independence
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The hydrogen economy is not a futuristic concept. The U.S. Department of Energy's 2006 Advance Energy Initiative calls for competitive ethanol from plant sources by 2012 and a good selection of hydrogen-powered fuel cell ...
Researchers discover 'radiation-eating' fungi
Biology /
May 23, 2007 |
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Scientists have long assumed that fungi exist mainly to decompose matter into chemicals that other organisms can then use. But researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found evidence ...
Quasicrystals: Somewhere between order and disorder
May 23, 2007 |
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Professionally speaking, things in David Damanik's world don't line up – and he can prove it. In new research that's available online and slated for publication in July's issue of the Journal of the American Mathematical So ...
Exercise reverses aging in human skeletal muscle
May 23, 2007 |
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Not only does exercise make most people feel better and perform physical tasks better, it now appears that exercise – specifically, resistance training -- actually rejuvenates muscle tissue in healthy senior citizens.
'Supersize me' mice research offers grim warning for America's fast food consumers
May 23, 2007 |
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It's research that may have you thinking twice before upgrading to the large size at your favorite fast food joint. Saint Louis University research presented this week in Washington, D.C., shows the dangers of high-fat food ...
Bacteria show promise in fending off global amphibian killer
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May 23, 2007 |
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First in a petri dish and now on live salamanders, probiotic bacteria seem to repel a deadly fungus being blamed for worldwide amphibian deaths and even extinctions. Though the research is in its early stages, scientists ...
New genetic data overturn long-held theory of limb development
Biology /
May 23, 2007 |
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Long before animals with limbs (tetrapods) came onto the scene about 365 million years ago, fish already possessed the genes associated with helping to grow hands and feet (autopods) report University of Chicago researchers ...
A new wrinkle in evolution -- Man-made proteins
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May 23, 2007 |
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Nature, through the trial and error of evolution, has discovered a vast diversity of life from what can only presumed to have been a primordial pool of building blocks. Inspired by this success, a new Biodesign ...
Study reveals function of ubiquitous yet poorly understood microorganisms
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May 23, 2007 |
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Discovered in the late 1970s, archaea are one of the three main branches on the tree of life, with bacteria and eukaryotes such as plants and animals on the other two branches. But scientists are just now gaining a fuller ...
A brown dwarf joins the jet-set
May 23, 2007 |
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Jets of matter have been discovered around a very low mass 'failed star', mimicking a process seen in young stars. This suggests that these 'brown dwarfs' form in a similar manner to normal stars but also ...
Adult brain cells rediscover their inner child
May 23, 2007 |
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You may not be able to relive your youth, but part of your brain can. Johns Hopkins researchers have found that newly made nerves in an adult brain's learning center experience a one-month period when they are just as active ...
Gamma-ray bursts active longer than thought
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Using NASA's Swift satellite, astronomers have discovered that energetic flares seen after gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are not just hiccups, they appear to be a continuation of the burst itself.
