Ancient predator had strongest bite of any fish, rivaling bite of large alligators and T. rex
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It could bite a shark in two. It might have been the first “king of the beasts.” And it could teach scientists a lot about humans, because it is in the sister group of all jawed vertebrates.
Cosmologists expose flaws in anthropic reasoning
Nov 28, 2006 |
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Many scientists never liked it anyway, and now Glenn Starkman from Oxford/Case Western and Roberto Trotta from Oxford show that too many details—and too many unknowns—mean that anthropic reasoning gives inconsistent ...
Dark matter hides, physicists seek
Nov 28, 2006 |
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Scientists don't know what dark matter is, but they know it's all over the universe. Everything humans observe in the heavens—galaxies, stars, planets and the rest—makes up only 4 percent of the universe, scientists ...
New Study Finds that Single Impact Killed Dinosaurs
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 28, 2006 |
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The dinosaurs, along with the majority of all other animal species on Earth, went extinct approximately 65 million years ago. Some scientists have said that the impact of a large meteorite in the Yucatan Peninsula, in what ...
Never-before-made material similar to diamonds and ice
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Not since the use of germanium in the first transistor radios and the discovery of its crucial role in semiconductor research more than 50 years ago has the study of this element garnered so much attention.
Magnetic needles turn somersaults
Nov 28, 2006 |
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For about ten years now, tiny magnetic structures measuring a few millionths of a millimetre have met with growing interest from the worlds of science and technology, particularly on account of their potential ...
Software Circumvents Internet Censorship
Nov 28, 2006 |
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With the Dec. 1 release of psiphon software, developed by University of Toronto's Citizen Lab, people around the world will have access to a free tool enabling them to circumvent Internet censorship.
New breast CT scanner rivals mammography
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At the Radiological Society of North America meeting in Chicago on November 27, researchers will unveil a new imaging system developed at the University of Rochester that showed in a pilot study it could capture images equal ...
A stunning new look at deja vu
Nov 28, 2006 |
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A blind man suffering déjà vu. It sounds like a contradiction in terms – but the first case study of its kind has turned the whole theory of déjà vu on its head.
Tales of the unexpected: how the brain detects novelty
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Nov 28, 2006 |
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When you sit down to watch a DVD of your favourite film, the chances are that you are able to predict the exact sequence of events that is about to unfold. Without our memories we would not only be unable to remember our ...
Brilliant growth without gold
Nov 28, 2006 |
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Silicon nanowires can help to further reduce the size of microchips. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics in Halle have for the first time developed single crystal silicon nanowires ...
Giant 8,000-year-old tsunami is studied
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 28, 2006 |
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Italian scientists say geological evidence suggests a giant tsunami resulted from the collapse of the eastern flanks of Mount Etna nearly 8,000 years ago.
A human taste for rarity spells disaster for endangered species
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Nov 28, 2006 |
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A model shows how the value that humans place on rarity fuels disproportionate exploitation of rare species, rendering them even rarer and thus more desirable, ultimately leading them into a vortex of extinction.
Study reveals that female chimpanzees team up to retaliate against male aggression
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A study conducted by Dr Nicholas Newton-Fisher, Lecturer in Biological Anthropology at the University of Kent, has revealed for the first time that female wild chimpanzees will form coalitions to retaliate ...
Night of the living enzyme
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Nov 28, 2006 |
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Inactive enzymes entombed in tiny honeycomb-shaped holes in silica can spring to life, scientists at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have found. The discovery came after salvaging ...
