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Single-particle interference observed for macroscopic objects
Sep 28, 2006 |
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With a variation on the famous double-slit experiment of quantum mechanics, scientists Yves Couder and Emmanuel Fort from the University of Paris 7 are rewriting the textbooks. Their accomplishment, however, ...
New Form of CP Violation Discovered
Sep 28, 2006 |
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Finding something expected has brought researchers at the Department of Energy's Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) one step closer to discovering the unexpected.
Watching how planets form
Sep 28, 2006 |
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With the VISIR instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have mapped the disc around a star more massive than the Sun. The very extended and flared disc most likely contains enough gas and dust ...
Entanglement unties a tough quantum computing problem
Sep 28, 2006 |
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Error correction coding is a fundamental process that underlies all of information science, but the task of adapting classical codes to quantum computing has long bumped up against what seemed to be a fundamental limitation.
Improbable 'buckyegg' hatched
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 28, 2006 |
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An egg-shaped fullerene, or "buckyball egg" has been made and characterized by chemists at UC Davis, Virginia Tech and Emory and Henry College, Va. The unexpected discovery opens new possibilities for structures ...
From Nanowires to Nanotubes
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 28, 2006 |
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Hollow nanocrystals that can function as highly-efficient catalysers or transport containers for chemical agents are in great demand nowadays. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics ...
Cranky? You may be smarter than you think
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 28, 2006 |
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People who are readily disagreeable in their youth may end up being smarter than their laid-back contemporaries in their golden years, a new U.S. study says.
Nanoparticles to aid brain imaging
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Sep 28, 2006 |
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If you want to see precisely what the 10 billion neurons in a person's brain are doing, a good way to start is to track calcium as it flows into neurons when they fire.
Hubble Discovers a Dark Cloud in the Atmosphere of Uranus
Sep 28, 2006 |
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Just as we near the end of the hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean, winds whirl and clouds churn 2 billion miles away in the atmosphere of Uranus, forming a dark vortex large enough to engulf two-thirds ...
Tan is 'In': Study Finds Light Brown More Attractive than Pale or Dark Skin
Sep 28, 2006 |
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Some African-American stars have been ridiculed for trying to lighten their skin color, but many Caucasians go to tanning salons to darken their skin. A new study by University of Missouri-Columbia researcher Cynthia Frisby ...
With record resolution and sensitivity, tool images how life organizes in a cell membrane
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Sep 28, 2006 |
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What's the difference between a lifeless sack of chemicals and a living cell? It's all in the way they're organized, according to Stanford biophysical chemist Steven Boxer. With colleagues at Stanford, the ...
Scientists study flesh-eating bacteria
Biology /
Sep 28, 2006 |
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Israeli scientists say they have discovered one reason "flesh-eating" bacteria are hard to stop is because of reactions with the immune system.
Scientist Seeks to Improve Car Seat Safety for Children
Sep 28, 2006 |
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Chris Sherwood studies what happens to children in car crashes. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, car crashes are the leading cause of death for children from 2 to 14 years old. In 2003, ...
NASA scientists reveal latest information on ozone hole
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 28, 2006 |
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In 1987, the United States joined several other nations in signing the Montreal Protocol, an international treaty designed to protect the Earth's ozone layer by phasing out the production of a number of substances ...
Plastic biochip speeds up protein detection
Sep 28, 2006 |
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A new, fast, and inexpensive way to test for medically important molecules, such the blood clot protein thrombin and faulty proteins present in Alzheimer’s disease, could emerge from research published today in the journal ...
