Researchers make breakthrough in renewable energy materials
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 29, 2008 |
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University of Queensland researchers have made a ground-breaking discovery that produces highly efficient miniature crystals which could revolutionise the way we harvest and use solar energy.
Intelligent Computers See Your Human Traits
Technology / Computer Sciences
May 29, 2008 |
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Today’s computers can do a lot as far as computation goes, but they tend to do it in an impersonal, stand-offish way, so to speak. However, computer engineers are busy changing that, as they try to give computers ...
Amazonian indigenous culture demonstrates a universal mapping of number onto space
May 29, 2008 |
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The ability to map numbers onto a line, a foundation of all mathematics, is universal, says a study published this week in the journal Science, but the form of this universal mapping is not linear but logarithmic. The fi ...
How to make microwaves on a chip to replace X-rays for medical imaging and security
May 29, 2008 |
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Is microwave radiation the nondestructive imaging technology of the future? Microwaves with frequencies from a few hundred gigahertz (GHz) up to slightly over 1 terahertz (THz), penetrate just a short distance ...
No sex, but plenty of gene transfer
Biology /
May 29, 2008 |
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Where do you get your genes? If you are an animal, you inherit them from your parents at the moment of conception, and that's about it. No later incorporation of environmental DNA for you, unless you become ...
Computer model reveals how brain represents meaning
May 29, 2008 |
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Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have taken an important step toward understanding how the human brain codes the meanings of words by creating the first computational model that can predict the unique ...
Protons Pair Up With Neutrons
May 29, 2008 |
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Research performed at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has found that protons are about 20 times more likely to pair up with neutrons than with other protons in ...
Engineers whip up the first long-lived nanoscale bubbles
May 29, 2008 |
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With the aid of kitchen mixers, engineers at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have whipped up, for the first time, permanent nanoscale bubbles – bubbles that endure for more than ...
Researchers uncover 'stirring' secrets of deadly supervolcanoes
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 29, 2008 |
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Researchers from The University of British Columbia and McGill University have simulated in the lab the process that can turn ordinary volcanic eruptions into so-called “supervolcanoes.”
Mars' water appears to have been too salty to support life
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 29, 2008 |
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A new analysis of the Martian rock that gave hints of water on the Red Planet -- and, therefore, optimism about the prospect of life -- now suggests the water was more likely a thick brine, far too salty to ...
Iomega Intros eGo 1TB Desktop Hard Drives
May 29, 2008 |
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Iomega Corp. today announced that stylish data security has reached the 1TB plateau with the worldwide introduction of the Iomega eGo 1TB Desktop Hard Drives.
Where man boldly goes, bacteria follow -- Are we contaminating space?
Biology /
May 29, 2008 |
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Life in outer space is an absolute certainty, and it is likely to be more familiar than we might think, according to an article in the May issue of Microbiology Today. Ever since the start of the space race we have sent m ...
Scientists Hold Seance for Supernova
May 29, 2008 |
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Astronomers have unearthed secrets from the grave of a star that blasted apart in a supernova explosion long ago. By decoding ghostly echoes of light traveling away from the remains of a supernova called Cassiopeia ...
Exercises cut cancer death in men
May 29, 2008 |
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Men who exercise often are less likely to die from cancer than those who don’t exercise, according to a new study from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet. In the study, the researchers looked at the effect ...
Fruits, vegetables and teas may protect smokers from lung cancer
May 29, 2008 |
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Tobacco smokers who eat three servings of fruits and vegetables per day and drink green or black tea may be protecting themselves from lung cancer, according to a first-of-its-kind study by UCLA cancer researchers.
