Warm Coronal Loops Offer Clue to Mysteriously Hot Solar Atmosphere
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 29, 2008 |
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Scientists at NASA reveal a new understanding of the mysterious mechanism responsible for heating the outer part of the solar atmosphere, the corona, to million degree temperatures.
Rewriting Greenland's immigration history
May 29, 2008 |
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The first immigrants in Greenland were not Indians from the North American continent or Canadian Inuit as previously suggested. And it is not just a question of revising the Greenlandic immigration history. The discovery ...
I do not see it, but my brain knows what it means
May 29, 2008 |
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Patients suffering from “hemineglect” cannot attend to, and hence cannot see, things presented to their left side. However, sometimes these ignored stimuli may be processed without awareness.
Why rebel groups attack civilians
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In civil war, rebel groups often target civilians despite the fact that their actual target is the government and that they are often dependent on the support of the civilian groups they attack. This may seem illogical, but ...
Two for One: New Design Enables More Cost-Effective Quantum Key Distribution
May 29, 2008 |
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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated a simpler and potentially lower-cost method for distributing strings of digits, or “keys,” for use in quantum cryptography, ...
Model Reveals How Plasma from Superstorms Affects Near-Earth Space
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 29, 2008 |
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NASA scientists have uncovered new details about how plasma from superstorms interact with Earth’s magnetosphere.
Dehydrated tomatoes show promise for preventing prostate cancer
May 29, 2008 |
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New research suggests that the form of tomato product one eats could be the key to unlocking its prostate cancer-fighting potential, according to a report in the June 1 issue of Cancer Research, a journal of the American Associ ...
Did walking on 2 feet begin with a shuffle?
Biology /
May 29, 2008 |
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Somewhere in the murky past, between four and seven million years ago, a hungry common ancestor of today’s primates, including humans, did something novel. While temporarily standing on its rear feet to reach a piece of fruit, ...
Mars probe Phoenix flexes robotic arm
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 29, 2008 |
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NASA's Phoenix Mars lander flexed its robotic arm Thursday in a successful test of the key element in the probe's mission to investigate the Red Planet's soil for conditions conducive to life, NASA said.
Burials held at Stonehenge for hundreds of years: research
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 29, 2008 |
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England's famous Stonehenge monument was used as a burial site from its inception around 3000 BC until well after the massive stones were erected there around 2500 BC, scientists said Thursday.
A molecular switch turns on the flame in 'nature's blowtorch'
May 29, 2008 |
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Uncontrolled reaction of organic compounds with oxygen is easy: we call it fire. But nature often needs to do oxidations very specifically, adding oxygen to a particular carbon atom in a complicated molecule without disturbing ...
Nanoparticles assemble by millions to encase oil drops
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 29, 2008 |
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In a development that could lead to new technologies for cleaning up oil spills and polluted groundwater, scientists at Rice University have shown how tiny, stick-shaped particles of metal and carbon can trap oil droplets ...
Children's diet not the main cause of ADHD
May 29, 2008 |
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Food may not be the major cause of hyperactivity in children. Genetics, brain function and parental actions such as smoking may be just as important.
Moving molecules within molecules
May 29, 2008 |
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Experts in the field of nanoscience have discovered a way of controlling the motion and detecting the forces that move molecules within molecules.
Intel, Micron First to Deliver Sub-40 Nanometer NAND Flash Memory Device
May 29, 2008 |
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Today Intel Corporation and Micron Technology, Inc. introduced the industry's first sub-40 nanometer NAND memory device, unveiling a 34nm 32 gigabit multi-level cell chip. This process technology was jointly ...
