Dark Energy And The Inverse Square Law
Jan 25, 2007 |
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“Newton’s inverse-square law has been around for a while,” Daniel Kapner tells PhysOrg.com. “But, by testing this law, we’re looking for new physics.” The new physics Kapner and his colleagues are looking for in their recent ...
A Boost for Hydrogen Fuel Cell Research
Jan 25, 2007 |
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The development of hydrogen fuel cells for vehicles, the ultimate green dream in transportation energy, is another step closer. Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ...
No One Strategy Is Best For Teaching Reading, Study Shows
Jan 25, 2007 |
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For decades, a debate has simmered in the educational community over the best way to teach children how to read. Proponents of phonics, the "whole language and meaning" approach and other teaching methods long have battled ...
Biomimetic Technologies Project Will Create First Soft-Bodied Robots
Jan 25, 2007 |
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While robots have moved from the realm of science fiction to a myriad of real-life uses, the potential of the “hard-bodied” robots of the 21st century remains limited by their stiff construction and lack of flexibility.
Molecular link between inflammation and cancer discovered
Jan 25, 2007 |
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A team led by biochemists at the University of California, San Diego has found what could be a long-elusive mechanism through which inflammation can promote cancer. The findings may provide a new approach ...
Why do we prefer some foods over others?
Jan 25, 2007 |
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When your stomach grumbles at lunchtime, and it's your turn at the deli counter, what will it be? Wheat bread or rye bread? Turkey or pastrami? Mayonnaise or mustard? Hold the pickle!
Brain-damaged smokers provide clues to anatomy of addiction: study
Jan 25, 2007 |
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Smokers with a damaged insula – a region in the brain linked to emotion and feelings – quit smoking easily and immediately, according to a study in the Jan. 26 issue of the journal Science. The study provides direct eviden ...
Scientists Manipulate Atoms on a Rough 3-D Surface
Jan 25, 2007 |
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Ohio University nanoscientists have used a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) to manipulate individual atoms on a rough terrain. It is the first atom manipulation of its kind done on a three-dimensional surface.
Coated nanoparticles solve sticky drug-delivery problem
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 25, 2007 |
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The layers of mucus that protect sensitive tissue throughout the body have an undesirable side effect: they can also keep helpful medications away. To overcome this hurdle, Johns Hopkins researchers have found a way to coat ...
'Hidden-Hero' Microbes In Soil, Water May Help Naturally Clean Toxic Sites
Biology /
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Buried under 243 acres in an East Tennessee valley adjacent to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Y-12 National Security Complex, toxic waste from weapons manufacturing at the facility between 1951 and 1983 leaches into ...
Magnetic, luminescent nanoparticles set new standard
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jan 25, 2007 |
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Researchers at UC Davis have created a new type of nanoparticles that could be used in tests for environmental pollution or contamination of food products, and for medical diagnostics.
Multimedia car radio of the future
Jan 25, 2007 |
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Crackling radio stations, signal loss in tunnels and difficulties tuning to the correct frequency – the conventional car radio has had its day. ESA and its partners are developing the multimedia car radio of ...
Unexpected cooling effect in Saturn's upper atmosphere
Jan 25, 2007 |
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UK researchers from University College London, along with colleagues from Boston University, have found that the hotter than expected temperature of Saturn's upper atmosphere – and that of the other giant planets ...
Hum a few bars and I’ll find it
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jan 25, 2007 |
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A European research consortium hopes to make it much easier to find audio/visual content online. The new search approach will be driven by content or example rather than relying on key words and tags.
Nervous mice lead researchers to regulator of anxiety
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 25, 2007 |
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University of Toronto researchers have uncovered a protein in brain receptors that regulates anxiety in mice - a finding that could one day lead to new clinical treatments of pathological anxiety in humans.
