Shoppers' Spending Habits Follow Well-Known Economic Law
Oct 26, 2007 |
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By analyzing 100 million receipts from 1,000 Japanese am/pm convenience stores, researchers have discovered a strong economic inequality among shoppers. Among their findings is that the top 25% and 2% of the ...
The Last Supper Will Travel The Internet At 16 Billion Pixels
Oct 26, 2007 |
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HAL 9000 will send The Last Supper by Leonardo Da Vinci soaring through the Internet on October 27, 2007 with a high density view of 16 billion pixels. The time given for the launch is 9:30 A.M. Central European ...
Researchers race ahead with latest spintronics achievement
Oct 26, 2007 |
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In a rapid follow-up to their achievement as the first to demonstrate how an electron's spin can be electrically injected, controlled and detected in silicon, electrical engineers from the University of Delaware ...
World's hottest chile pepper discovered
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Oct 26, 2007 |
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Researchers at New Mexico State University recently discovered the world’s hottest chile pepper.
Mystery Comet Explodes into Brightness
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 26, 2007 |
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A once-faint comet has made a sudden leap from obscurity to center stage. Comet 17P/Holmes, now visible to northern hemisphere residents, increased its brightness by a factor of one million this week, going ...
Exactly how sensitive is our climate? It may not matter...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 26, 2007 |
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Scientists from Oxford University have suggested that climate researchers and policy makers ought to worry less about working out exactly how sensitive Earth's climate will be to a doubling of carbon dioxide ...
Video shows buckyballs form by 'shrink wrapping'
Oct 26, 2007 |
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The birth secret of buckyballs -- hollow spheres of carbon no wider than a strand of DNA -- has been caught on tape by researchers at Sandia National Laboratory and Rice University. An electron microscope video and computer ...
Mars with ice, shaken, not stirred
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 26, 2007 |
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Mars, like Earth, is a climate-fickle water planet. The main difference, of course, is that water on the frigid Red Planet is rarely liquid, preferring to spend almost all of its time traveling the world as ...
NIST Demos Industrial-Grade Nanowire Device Fabrication
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 26, 2007 |
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In the growing catalog of nanoscale technologies, nanowires—tiny rows of conductor or semiconductor atoms—have attracted a great deal of interest for their potential to build unique atomic-scale electronics. ...
Napping doesn't impair nighttime sleep, research finds
Oct 26, 2007 |
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Concerned that a midday snooze might ruin a good night's sleep? Fret not; ongoing research from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center indicates that napping has little effect on sleep onset -- and that ...
High-tech textiles pave the way for glowing garments
Oct 26, 2007 |
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Researchers at The University of Manchester have developed high-tech battery-powered textile yarns that can be used to make clothing glow in the dark.
Extinction threat growing for mankind's closest living relatives
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Oct 26, 2007 |
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Mankind’s closest living relatives – the world’s apes, monkeys, lemurs and other primates – are under unprecedented threat from destruction of tropical forests, illegal wildlife trade and commercial bushmeat hunting, with ...
Agricultural soil erosion is not adding to global warming
Oct 26, 2007 |
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Agricultural soil erosion is not a source of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, according to research published online today (October 25) in the journal Science. The study was carried out by an international team of resear ...
Less Arctic ice means higher risks, experts warn
Oct 26, 2007 |
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The International Ice Charting Working Group predicts more marine transportation in the Arctic as sea ice continues to diminish and warns of "significant hazards to navigation," according to a statement released ...
Persistence pays off
Oct 26, 2007 |
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Chemists have come remarkably close to mimicking a type of protein previously thought impossible to imitate. The long-term application of this work could be in the development of new types of glucose sensors ...
