Vikings did not dress the way we thought
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 25, 2008 |
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Vivid colors, flowing silk ribbons, and glittering bits of mirrors - the Vikings dressed with considerably more panache than we previously thought. The men were especially vain, and the women dressed provocatively, ...
Rusty Worms in the Brain
Feb 25, 2008 |
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Iron is vital to human life; for example, it is a component of hemoglobin, the substance that makes our blood red and supplies our cells with oxygen. However, iron can also cause heavy damage; it is thought that iron deposits ...
Crystal bells stay silent as physicists look for dark matter
Feb 25, 2008 |
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Scientists of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment today announced that they have regained the lead in the worldwide race to find the particles that make up dark matter. The CDMS experiment, conducted ...
Hair Reveals Where Murder Victims Drank Water
Feb 25, 2008 |
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University of Utah scientists developed a new crime-fighting tool by showing that human hair reveals the general location where a person drank water, helping police track past movements of criminal suspects ...
Two oxygenation events in ancient oceans sparked spread of complex life
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 25, 2008 |
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The rise of oxygen and the oxidation of deep oceans between 635 and 551 million years ago may have had an impact on the increase and spread of the earliest complex life, including animals, according to a study ...
Cambridge, Nokia introduce new stretchable and flexible mobile phone concept
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Feb 25, 2008 |
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The concept for a new stretchable and flexible mobile phone developed by the University of Cambridge and the Nokia Research Center (NRC) was unveiled today.
Silica smart bombs deliver knock-out to bacteria
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 25, 2008 |
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Bacteria mutate for a living, evading antibiotic drugs while killing tens of thousands of people in the United States each year. But as concern about drug-resistant bacteria grows, one novel approach under way at the University ...
Stock exchange for 'grid' computing?
Feb 25, 2008 |
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You might soon be selling your spare computer power over the internet, or perhaps buying in extra resources to solve a tricky problem. In either case, network administration used to be a stumbling block – until European researchers ...
Can Athletic Uniform Color Determine Winners and Losers?
Feb 25, 2008 |
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It’s not uncommon for some athletes to have good luck charms, including the superstition that wearing certain colors may give them an edge on the competition. While some studies have found that, indeed, certain ...
Royals weren't only builders of Maya temples, archaeologist finds
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 25, 2008 |
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An intrepid archaeologist is well on her way to dislodging the prevailing assumptions of scholars about the people who built and used Maya temples.
How the atmospheres of Mars and Venus are affected by carbon monoxide
Feb 25, 2008 |
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Modelling of the Earth's atmosphere has acquired economic importance due to its use in the prediction of ozone depletion and in measuring the impact of global warming. Now, researchers, writing in the online open access journal ...
New electrodes may provide safer, more powerful lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries
Feb 25, 2008 |
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Researchers in Spain and the United Kingdom are reporting development of a new electrode material that could ease concerns about the safety of those unbiquitous lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries, while giving Li-ion batteries ...
Krill discovered living in the Antarctic abyss
Biology /
Feb 25, 2008 |
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Scientists have discovered Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) living and feeding down to depths of 3000 metres in the waters around the Antarctic Peninsula. Until now this shrimp-like crustacean was thought to live only ...
Age test of Shroud of Turin planned
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 25, 2008 |
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A British scientist is overseeing new tests on the Shroud of Turin that he says will show it dates to the time of Jesus of Nazareth.
Researchers demonstrate a new type of optical tweezer
Feb 25, 2008 |
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Researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) demonstrated a new type of optical tweezer with the potential to make biological and microfluidic force measurements in integrated ...
