Tiny ion pump sets new standard in cooling hot computer microchips
Aug 23, 2006 |
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University of Washington researchers have succeeded in building a cooling device tiny enough to fit on a computer chip that could work reliably and efficiently with the smallest microelectronic components.
Scientists turn dents into smart bumps
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Due to a phenomenon called the shape memory effect (SME), certain "memory metals" can be distorted and then brought back to their original shape by a simple temperature change. While a one-way memory effect ...
Santorini Eruption Much Larger than Originally Believed
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Aug 23, 2006 |
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An international team of scientists has found that the second largest volcanic eruption in human history, the massive Bronze Age eruption of Thera in Greece, was much larger and more widespread than previously believed.
Fast-growing trees could take root as future energy source
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A tree that can reach 90 feet in six years and be grown as a row crop on fallow farmland could represent a major replacement for fossil fuels. Purdue University researchers are using genetic tools in an effort ...
Huge Black Holes Stifle Star Formation
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Supermassive black holes in some giant galaxies create such a hostile environment, they shut down the formation of new stars, according to NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer findings published in the August 24 ...
New device cuts gas engine air pollution
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Two U.S. scientists say they've developed a light-weight, relatively inexpensive way of reducing unburned hydrocarbon air pollutants from gasoline engines.
Astronomers find unexpected 'heartbeats' in star
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Astronomers using CSIRO's Parkes telescope in eastern Australia have detected radio "heartbeats" from a star that was not expected to have them. A US-Australian research team found that a "magnetar" -- a kind ...
Scientists Uncover Critical Step in DNA Mutation
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Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have made an important step toward solving a critical puzzle relating to a chemical reaction that leads to DNA mutation, which underlies many forms of cancer. ...
Global warming affects Alaska
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Global warning is changing Alaska, eliminating tourist sights such as glaciers, and with melting ice causing rising waters to flood villages.
Sulfur signature changes thoughts on atmospheric oxygen
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Aug 23, 2006 |
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Ancient sediments that once resided on a lake bed and the ocean floor show sulfur isotope ratios unlike those found in other samples from the same time, calling into question accepted ideas about when the Earth’s atmosphere ...
Astronomers use supercomputers to study atoms linked to black holes
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Super-hot atoms in space hold the key to an astronomical mystery, and an Ohio State University astronomer is leading an effort to study those atoms here on Earth.
Tight-knit family: even microbes favor their own kin
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New research published by Rice University biologists in this week's issue of Nature finds that even the simplest of social creatures - single-celled amoebae - have the ability not only to recognize their own family member ...
Eureka Prize for secure information breakthrough
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One of Australia’s top science prizes has been awarded to researchers based at The Australian National University who have developed a fast and totally secure way to transmit information using laser beams.
Phoenician tombs are found in Sicily
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Aug 23, 2006 |
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Archaeologists report the discovery of 40 Phoenician sarcophagi in what was once a sacred burial ground in Sicily, near Marsala.
Laser light in the deep infrared
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Free-electron lasers (FEL) are large and expensive, but they can deliver unique light for research and applications. On August 21, 2006, at the Forschungszentrum Rossendorf (FZR) in Dresden, Germany, the second ...
