On-Chip Silicon 'Microcoolers' for Microprocessor Hot Spots
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As semiconductor-based technology has rapidly developed, producing ever smaller and faster silicon-chip computer processors, effectively cooling these chips has remained a problem. Now, researchers have developed a way to ...
Report links power lines to cancer
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An Australian study says living next to high-voltage power lines increases the risk of cancer.
300 years after discovery, structure of mercury fulminate finally determined
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Known to the alchemists and long used as a detonator to set off dynamite—mercury fulminate has a checkered past. Now, more than 300 years after the discovery of this explosive compound, German researchers have been able to ...
Quantum light beams good for fast technology
Aug 24, 2007 |
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Australian and French scientists have made another breakthrough in the technology that will drive next generation computers and teleportation. The researchers have successfully superposed light beams, which ...
Milestone in magnetic cooling
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The first milestone in magnetic cooling has been achieved. Between 5 and 10 degrees of cooling – this was the success criteria for the first milestone in a project involving magnetic cooling at Risø National Laboratory – ...
Los Angeles enjoying 1,000 year seismic lull
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 24, 2007 |
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The Los Angeles basin appears to be in a seismic “lull” characterized by relatively smaller and infrequent earthquakes, according to a study in the September issue of Geology.
Social parasites of the smaller kind
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Cooperation is widespread in the natural world but so too are cheats – mutants that do not contribute to the collective good but simply reap the benefits of others’ cooperative efforts. In evolutionary terms, ...
Changing the rings: a key finding for magnetics design
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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) have done the first theoretical determination of the dominant damping mechanism that settles down excited ...
Monkeys use 'baby talk' to interact with infants
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Female rhesus monkeys use special vocalizations while interacting with infants, the way human adults use motherese, or “baby talk,” to engage babies’ attention, new research at the University of Chicago shows. ...
Scientists train nano-'building blocks' to take on new shapes
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 24, 2007 |
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Researchers from the University of Delaware and Washington University in St. Louis have figured out how to train synthetic polymer molecules to behave--to literally “self-assemble” --and form into long, multicompartment ...
Software coordinates 19 mirrors, focuses James Webb Space Telescope
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 24, 2007 |
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Scientists and engineers have created and successfully tested a set of algorithms and software programs which are designed to enable the 19 individual mirrors comprising NASA's powerful James Webb Space Telescope ...
Columbia Law School Launches Free Database of U.S. Court Decisions
Aug 24, 2007 |
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Aiming to make federal case law fast and easy to search, more accessible to the public – and free – Columbia Law School and the University of Colorado Law School have launched a Web site called AltLaw.org, ...
Researchers use novel approach to uncover genetic components of aging
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People who live to 100 or more are known to have just as many—and sometimes even more—harmful gene variants compared with younger people. Now, scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have ...
Geoengineering plan is criticized
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 24, 2007 |
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U.S. scientists criticized a geoengineering proposal that would emulate volcanic eruptions as a means of combating global warming.
Ancient great ape fossil found in Africa
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Aug 24, 2007 |
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Scientists in Africa say they've have a found the fossil teeth of an ancient great ape that extends the human family tree millions of years.
