Unknown molecule opens the door to quantum computing
Jun 27, 2008 |
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The odd behavior of a molecule in an experimental silicon computer chip has led to a discovery that opens the door to quantum computing in semiconductors.
NASA to Attempt Historic Solar Sail Deployment
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 27, 2008 |
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"Hold your hands out to the sun. What do you feel? Heat, of course. But there's pressure as well – though you've never noticed it, because it's so tiny. Over the area of your hands, it only comes to about a millionth of an ...
Mechanism and function of humor identified by new evolutionary theory
Jun 27, 2008 |
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A new publication answers centuries' old questions regarding the mechanism and function of humour, identifying the reason humour is common to all human societies, its fundamental role in the evolution of homo sapiens and ...
Not a Quirk But a Quark ... a Quark Star!
Jun 27, 2008 |
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Astronomers recently announced that they have found a novel explanation for a rare type of super-luminous stellar explosion that may have produced a new type of object known as a quark star.
Phoenix Returns Treasure Trove for Science
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 27, 2008 |
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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander performed its first wet chemistry experiment on Martian soil flawlessly yesterday, returning a wealth of data that for Phoenix scientists was like winning the lottery.
New Quantum Strategy Keeps Web Searches Private
Jun 27, 2008 |
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When an Internet user types a word or phrase into a search engine, the Web server has the ability to find out that inquiry. As more people and businesses are becoming concerned about privacy, researchers are developing new ...
In 'novel playground,' metals are formed into porous nanostructures
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 27, 2008 |
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For 5,000 years or so, the only way to shape metal has been to "heat and beat." Even in modern nanotechnology, working with metals involves carving with electron beams or etching with acid.
Researchers create mercury-absorbent container linings for broken CFLs
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With rising energy prices and greater concern over global warming, compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) are having a successful run. Sales of the curlicue, energy-sipping bulbs, which previously had languished ...
SOHO discovers its 1,500th comet
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 27, 2008 |
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The ESA/NASA SOHO spacecraft has just discovered its 1500th comet, making it more successful than all other comet discoverers throughout history put together. Not bad for a spacecraft that was designed as a ...
Ancient oak trees help reduce global warming
Jun 27, 2008 |
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The battle to reduce carbon emissions is at the heart of many eco-friendly efforts, and researchers from the University of Missouri have discovered that nature has been lending a hand. Researchers at the Missouri Tree Ring ...
You don't have to be psychic to predict the future
Jun 27, 2008 |
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A team of researchers from UQ's Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR) has proved you don't have to be psychic to predict the future.
Chasing rainbows
Jun 27, 2008 |
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Engineers working in optical communications bear more than a passing resemblance to dreamers chasing rainbows. They may not wish literally to capture all the colors of the spectrum, but they do seek to control the rate at ...
Unravelling the 'inconvenient truth' of glacier movement
Jun 27, 2008 |
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Predicting climate change depends on many factors not properly included in current forecasting models, such as how the major polar ice caps will move in the event of melting around their edges. This in turn requires greater ...
Researchers form metal nanoparticles into porous structures
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 27, 2008 |
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For 5,000 years or so, the only way to shape metal has been to "heat and beat." Even in modern nanotechnology, working with metals involves carving with electron beams or etching with acid.
Cluster listens to the sounds of Earth
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The first thing an alien race is likely to hear from Earth is chirps and whistles, a bit like R2-D2, the robot from Star Wars. In reality, they are the sounds that accompany the aurora. Now ESA's Cluster mission is showing ...
