Summer Moon Illusion
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 28, 2007 |
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Sometimes you can't believe your eyes. This weekend is one of those times.
Bright future for nanowire light source
Jun 28, 2007 |
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A bio-friendly nano-sized light source capable of emitting coherent light across the visible spectrum, has been invented by a team of researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National ...
Exercise stimulates the formation of new brain cells
Jun 28, 2007 |
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Exercise has a similar effect to antidepressants on depression. This has been shown by previous research. Now Astrid Bjørnebekk at Karolinska Institutet has explained how this can happen: exercise stimulates the production ...
New, invisible nano-fibers conduct electricity, repel dirt
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 28, 2007 |
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Tiny plastic fibers could be the key to some diverse technologies in the future -- including self-cleaning surfaces, transparent electronics, and biomedical tools that manipulate strands of DNA.
Scientists find that Earth and Mars are different to the core
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 28, 2007 |
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Research comparing silicon samples from Earth, meteorites and planetary materials, published in Nature (28th June 2007), provides new evidence that the Earth’s core formed under very different conditions from those that e ...
It's not too late to change -- lowering cardiac risk later in life
Jun 28, 2007 |
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Can adopting a healthier lifestyle later in life help -- or is it too late?
Astronomers conduct most detailed cosmological simulation to date
Jun 28, 2007 |
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By incorporating the physics of black holes into a highly sophisticated model running on a powerful supercomputing system, an international team of scientists has produced an unprecedented simulation of cosmic evolution that ...
Study reveals new, cost-efficient method for creating portable hydrogen fuel cells
Jun 28, 2007 |
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A new paper published in Journal of the American Ceramic Society proposes a new method of producing hydrogen for portable fuel cells.
NASA Mars Rover Ready for Descent Into Crater
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 28, 2007 |
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NASA's Mars rover Opportunity is scheduled to begin a descent down a rock-paved slope into the Red Planet's massive Victoria Crater. This latest trek carries real risk for the long-lived robotic explorer, ...
The newest AI computing tool: people
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jun 28, 2007 |
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A USC Information Sciences Institute researcher is among a growing group of computer scientists learning to solve difficult IT problems of information classification, reliability and meaning by datamining public websites ...
Researchers identify alcoholism subtypes
Jun 28, 2007 |
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Analyses of a national sample of individuals with alcohol dependence (alcoholism) reveal five distinct subtypes of the disease, according to a new study by scientists at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism ...
Studying Magnetic Interface Ferromagnetism
Jun 28, 2007 |
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The development of various magnetic-based devices, such as read-heads found inside your computer, depends on the discovery and improvement of new materials and magnetic effects.
A new calculation code opens new possibilities in nuclear reactor modelling
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jun 28, 2007 |
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Research Scientist Jaakko Leppänen from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a new calculation code in his doctoral thesis, for the modelling of neutron physics in nuclear reactors. The so-called Monte Carlo ...
AMD Unleashes ATI Radeon HD 2600 and HD 2400 Series
Jun 28, 2007 |
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AMD today announced the arrival of the ATI Radeon HD 2600 and ATI Radeon HD 2400 series, the mid-range and entry-level graphics processors in the ATI Radeon HD 2000 series.
Loss of cell's 'antenna' linked to cancer's development
Jun 28, 2007 |
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Submarines have periscopes. Insects have antennae. And increasingly, biologists are finding that most normal vertebrate cells have cilia, small hair-like structures that protrude like antennae into the surrounding ...
