Cassini Images Bizarre Hexagon on Saturn
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An odd, six-sided, honeycomb-shaped feature circling the entire north pole of Saturn has captured the interest of scientists with NASA's Cassini mission.
Physicists shine a light, produce startling liquid jet
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It is possible to manipulate small quantities of liquid using only the force of light, report University of Chicago and French scientists in the March 30 issue of Physical Review Letters.
Removing a hydrogen fuel-cell roadblock
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Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory are employing some modern day alchemy in an effort to find a material with properties of rare and high-priced palladium. If they’re successful, it could remove ...
'Smart' sunglasses feature lenses that change color on demand
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Get ready for the coolest, most colorful shades on the planet: Chemists at the University of Washington in Seattle say they are developing ‘smart’ sunglasses that will allow the wearer to instantly change the ...
Love not in the stars
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Lonely hearts who turn to horoscopes to find their perfect partner are wasting their time, according to the largest test of astrology ever carried out.
Tool Turns Any JavaScript-Enabled Browser into a Malicious Drone
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A new tool too dangerous to give away can turn any PC - Windows, Mac, Linux - or any device with a browser into a site attacker.
Elusive oxygen molecule finally discovered in interstellar space
Mar 27, 2007 |
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Molecular oxygen has finally been discovered in interstellar space. The result is important for understanding the chemistry in large interstellar clouds where new stars are formed, and the processes behind ...
Memjet Customers, Roadmap Start Taking Shape
Mar 27, 2007 |
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PC OEMs and camera makers could be among the customers for Memjet's revolutionary inkjet printers that were first disclosed last week. Meanwhile, the company has already started talking about taking the Silverbrook technolog ...
The 'best ever' marketing strategy? Maybe not, study says
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Marketing is often filled with hype and superlatives—the greatest, the best and even “heavenly”—but a new University of Georgia study that uncovers a curious aspect of human psychology could change how companies pitch their ...
Think herbal supplements are safe? Think again, book by SLU doctor says
Mar 27, 2007 |
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People are mixing supplements, herbs and over-the-counter medications and prescription drugs to cure themselves of ills, unaware that they could be making themselves sicker, says George Grossberg, M.D., director of the division ...
Nanoparticles for Delivery of Prostate Cancer Treatment
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Mar 27, 2007 |
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Alan Garen, professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry at Yale has received a $100,000 award from the Prostate Cancer Foundation to expand research on the delivery of a targeted therapy for prostate ...
Pulsing light silences overactive neurons
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Scientists at the MIT Media Lab have invented a way to reversibly silence brain cells using pulses of yellow light, offering the prospect of controlling the haywire neuron activity that occurs in diseases such ...
Researchers figure out what makes a simple biological clock tick
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An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Vanderbilt University has analyzed the simplest known biological clock and figured out what makes it tick. The results of their analysis are published in the March ...
Magnetic fields get reconnected in turbulent plasma too
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Using measurements of the four ESA's Cluster satellites, a study published this week in Nature Physics shows pioneering experimental evidence of magnetic reconnection also in turbulent 'plasma' around Earth.
With cellulosic ethanol, there is no food vs. fuel debate according to MSU scientist
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As more and more corn grain is diverted to make ethanol, there have been public concerns about food shortages. However, ethanol made from cellulosic materials instead of corn grain, renders the food vs. fuel debate moot, ...
