Neutron star field decay could impact what we know
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“[W]hat we have found could have profound impacts on what we know about how neutron stars evolve, how old they are and even what they are made of,” Bennett Link tells PhysOrg.com.
Milky Way Black Hole May Be a Colossal 'Particle Accelerator'
Feb 26, 2007 |
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Scientists were startled when they discovered in 2004 that the center of our galaxy is emitting gamma rays with energies in the tens of trillions of electronvolts. Now astrophysicists at The University of Arizona, ...
Supercomputing Simulations Support Chip Breakthrough
Feb 26, 2007 |
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IBM researchers today announced an advancement in computer-based simulations that is helping to drive chip technologies to new heights of performance and function. As reported in the scientific journal Physical Re ...
Professor researches cell phone usage among college students
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Cell phones are commonplace fixture in United States culture these days, but a recent Virginia Tech survey reveals not only whom college students are talking to, but also for how long, and from where they converse.
Searching for Signs of Life on Mars
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 26, 2007 |
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NASA-funded researchers are refining a tool that could not only check for the faintest traces of life's molecular building blocks on Mars, but could also determine whether they have been produced by anything ...
Sex hormone signaling helps burn calories
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Any dieter can tell you: Body weight is a function of how much food you eat and how much energy you use. The trick to maintaining a healthy weight lies in regulating the balance. Now new research from Rockefeller ...
Early sex may lead teens to delinquency, study shows
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Teens who start having sex significantly earlier than their peers also show higher rates of delinquency in later years, new research shows.
New insights into high-temperature superconductors
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Scientists at the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory in collaboration with a physicist at the Chinese University of Hong Kong have discovered that two different physical parameters —pressure and the substitution ...
South Pole Telescope achieves first light
Feb 26, 2007 |
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Scientists aimed the South Pole Telescope at Jupiter on the evening of Feb. 16 and successfully collected the instrument's first test observations. Soon, far more distant quarry will fall under the SPT's sights ...
Early Europeans unable to stomach milk
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The first direct evidence that early Europeans were unable to digest milk has been found by scientists at UCL (University College London) and Mainz University.
Common Ingredient in Big Macs and Sodas Can Stabilize Gold Nanoparticles for Medical Use
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 26, 2007 |
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The future of cancer detection and treatment may be in gold nanoparticles – tiny pieces of gold so small they cannot be seen by the naked eye. The potential of gold nanoparticles has been hindered by the difficulty of making ...
A climate-change amplifying mechanism
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Feb 26, 2007 |
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During the past ninety thousand years there were alternating hot and cold periods lasting several thousand years each which resulted in a modification of global oceanic circulation. With the help of paleoclimatic and paleooceanographic ...
Quantum Rods and Dots Image Cancer Cells
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 26, 2007 |
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Brightly fluorescent quantum dots and quantum rods are quickly becoming important tools for identifying specific molecules and cells in living systems. Two new reports demonstrate some of the ways in which cancer researchers ...
African carnage: One year's seized ivory likely came from 23,000 elephants
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African elephants are being slaughtered for their ivory at a rate unprecedented since an international convention banning ivory trade took effect in 1989, a University of Washington biologist says.
Swimming 'to the left' gets bacteria upstream, may promote infection
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Yale engineers who study both flow hydrodynamics and how bacteria propel themselves report that one reason for the high incidence of infections associated with catheters in hospital patients may be that some pathogenic bacteria ...
