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Meditation found to increase brain size

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created Jan 27, 2006 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (254) | comments 0

People who meditate grow bigger brains than those who don't. Researchers at Harvard, Yale, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found the first evidence that meditation can alter the physical ...


Sonofusion Experiment Produces Results Without External Neutron Source

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created Jan 27, 2006 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (189) | comments 0

A team of researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Purdue University, and the Russian Academy of Sciences has used sound waves to induce nuclear fusion without the need for an external neutron source, according ...


Guy Consolmagno of the Vatican Observatory waxes poetic about the nature of the universe and God.

Universe will end with a bang, or a whimper, says Vatican astronomer

Space & Earth /

created Jan 27, 2006 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (79) | comments 1

While some pit science against faith, a Vatican astronomer contends that science is, in fact, a very Christian pursuit, but that it alone cannot answer all of life's big questions.


Brit warns Net has medieval parallels

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created Jan 27, 2006 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (34) | comments 0

A British broadcaster warned in a speech that increasing reliance on Internet video and audio could drag culture back to the oral-based Middle Ages.


Scientists set sights on biomass to reduce fossil fuel dependence

Scientists set sights on biomass to reduce fossil fuel dependence

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created Jan 27, 2006 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (26) | comments 0

Using plants rather than oil or coal to produce fuels and chemicals could play an essential role in reducing the world's dependence on fossil fuels, according to a group of scientists from the UK and the USA ...


ISS astronaut Mike Finke spacewalks in a Russian Orlan spacesuit in 2004. SuitSat will have no one inside.

SuitSat: listen to a disembodied spacesuit circling Earth

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created Jan 27, 2006 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (20) | comments 0

One of the strangest satellites in the history of the space age is about to go into orbit. Launch date: Feb. 3rd. That's when astronauts onboard the International Space Station (ISS) will hurl an empty spacesuit ...


From 2-D blueprint, material assembles into novel 3-D nanostructures

From 2-D blueprint, material assembles into novel 3-D nanostructures

Nanotechnology /

created Jan 27, 2006 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (21) | comments 0

An international team of scientists affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center has coaxed a self-assembling material into forming never-before-seen, three-dimensional ...


Two Exiled Stars Are Leaving Our Galaxy Forever

Two Exiled Stars Are Leaving Our Galaxy Forever

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created Jan 27, 2006 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (17) | comments 0

TV reality show contestants aren't the only ones under threat of exile. Astronomers using the MMT Observatory in Arizona have discovered two stars exiled from the Milky Way galaxy. Those stars are racing out ...


Pitt Professor's Theory of Evolution Gets Boost From Cell Research

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created Jan 27, 2006 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (16) | comments 0

An article by University of Pittsburgh Professor of Anthropology Jeffrey H. Schwartz and University of Salerno Professor of Biochemistry Bruno Maresca, to be published Jan. 30 in the New Anatomist journal, shows that the em ...


RFID – where will it go next?

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created Jan 27, 2006 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (14) | comments 0

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has always been associated with speed and convenience. Quite simply, that's what the technology delivers. But if you associate RFID only with Supply Chain Management, transport or secure ...


A perspective view obtained by the HRSC on board ESA's Mars Express

Martian Glaciers: Did They Originate From The Atmosphere

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created Jan 27, 2006 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 0

The spectacular features visible today on the surface of the Red Planet indicate the past existence of Martian glaciers, but where did the ice come from?


The sweet smell of nano-success

Nanotechnology /

created Jan 27, 2006 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Materials scientists at Lehigh University and catalyst chemists at Cardiff University have uncovered secrets of the "nanoworld" that promise to lead to cleaner methods of producing, among other things, spices and perfumes.


Korean DRAM finds itself shut out of Japan

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created Jan 27, 2006 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Japan may claim that the countervailing duty it slaps against Korean DRAM chip maker Hynix from today is just a protest against unfair trade practices and to curb dumping, but there's a widespread belief that the country ...


A man holds an iPod as he browses through the iTunes music store online

Portable tourist guides now in service

Electronics /

created Jan 27, 2006 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Your iPod might be your next tourist guide if you find yourself in Ireland, just one more example how countries are adapting with evolving technologies to intrigue a new generation of tourists.


Liquid water content of an operating PEM fuel cell. Red color is more water, blue is less.

Researchers collaborate to understand phenomena controlling PEM fuel cell performance, durability

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created Jan 27, 2006 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Two researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are working to understand several key phenomena that control hydrogen-fueled PEM (proton exchange membrane or polymer electrolyte membrane) fuel cells. One, Ken ...




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