Shark attack worries? Driving to the beach is more deadly
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Which is more likely to happen - you being in a car wreck or being bitten by a shark? Those who answered that cars are greater killers win a free trip to the beach. It's really no contest, says a Texas A&M University pro ...
New robots help patients walk, touch, feel
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CHICAGO, June 29 (AFP) - A 500-pound (225-kilogram) robot that follows a stroke patient down a hallway and catches him when he falls. A machine that suspends a gunshot wound victim over a treadmill and teaches her legs how ...
Nanotechnology hold promise for new hydrogen fuel technologies
Jun 29, 2005 |
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Nanotechnology may hold the key to developing a viable hydrogen economy, according to Jin Zhang, professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Zhang will receive $535,000 in grants from ...
Researchers create first nanofluidic transistor
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University of California, Berkeley, researchers have invented a variation on the standard electronic transistor, creating the first "nanofluidic" transistor that allows them to control the movement of ions ...
Research: Florida Getting Better At Protecting Homes From Hurricanes
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New Florida homes withstood last year's four hurricanes better than their older counterparts -- thanks in large measure to continued improvements in the state's hurricane building code, say University of Florida engineers. ...
Female butterflies go for sparkle - not size - when choosing to mate
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Size doesn't matter, at least not the size of the eyespots on a male butterfly's wings when female butterflies consider potential mates. Instead, females are attracted to the "sparkle" created by the ult ...
Tulips On The Moon
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Bernard Foing, Chief Scientist at the European Space Agency, is also Project Scientist for SMART-1, a spacecraft now orbiting the Moon. SMART-1 is currently mapping the lunar surface topography and mineralogy, and scientists ...
NASA hopes to use private transport soon
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The U.S. space agency hopes to turn to the private sector to provide transportation for crew and supplies to the International Space Station.
Size matters: Friction, adhesion change on atomic level
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Physicists have a pretty good idea of what to expect when friction and adhesion occur in the visible world. You jam on the brakes, for instance, and your tires and the highway interact to stop your car. You glue two pieces ...
More TV means more negative views of age
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A survey finds U.S. senior citizens who watch more television tend to have more negative views of old age.
Faster Climate Change Predicted as Air Quality Improves
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Global warming may proceed faster and be more severe than previously predicted according to research about to be published in the scientific journal Nature. Reductions in airborne particle pollution, or aerosols, as air qu ...
Digital music players pose security risk
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A Purdue University expert says the growing use of miniature digital music players poses a security risk because they can store huge quantities of information.
Geophysicists image rock layers under Himalaya
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New technique developed to visualize colliding rock bodies A team of geophysicists at the University of Colorado at Boulder has developed a new technique to visualize the colliding rock bodies beneath the Himalaya with unp ...
Era of Next-generation Electronics Draws Closer with the Discovery of Spintronics
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Spintronics – the pioneering new technology, wherein both the charge and spin of an electron is used to carry information – is generating great excitement in the world of technology for its immense potential in a wide variety of ...
Guide: How To See NASA's Comet Crash In The Sky on July 4th
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When NASA's Deep Impact slams an 800-pound projectile into Comet Tempel 1 at 23,000 miles per hour, the collision should create quite a splash. Cameras and other instruments on the main spacecraft will watch this first-ever com ...
