Brain's 'true love' lasts only a year
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Italian scientists have determined the brain chemical fired up when a person meets a "true love" doesn't last a lifetime, but rather, just 12 months.
Tips For Building Hurricane-Proof Houses
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As less fortunate residents of the devastated Gulf Coast look to rebuild, many are searching for new houses that will be able to weather the next storm.
KPO: India's new knowledge business
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Patricia Hill lives in Freemont, Calif., and the mother of 14-year old Clark who is preparing to take his math challenge test soon was a harried parent until recently. Clark would often come up to her seeking help for math ...
Global Warming Doubles Rate Of Ocean Rise
Nov 29, 2005 |
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Global ocean levels are rising twice as fast today as they were 150 years ago, and human-induced warming appears to be the culprit, say scientists at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and collaborating institutions. ...
Tai Shan, star of the global pandacams
Nov 29, 2005 |
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For weeks he has been the hottest ticket in town. Much has been made in the media of the difficulty of procuring tickets to see Tai Shan, the baby giant panda cub and "Peaceful Mountain" of Washington D.C.'s National Zoo.
Gravity played role in New Orleans' bridge failures
Nov 29, 2005 |
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Sir Isaac Newton did a number on the Interstate 10 bridges in New Orleans, according to a team of researchers at the University of Missouri-Rolla that helped document some of the damage caused by Hurricane ...
How to expose a liar
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In interrogating suspected perpetrators it’s important to be able to determine who is telling the truth. A new dissertation from Göteborg University in Sweden shows that strategic questioning can considerably enhance the ...
Can a standby label cut power consumption?
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Everybody complains about high energy prices. And yet it's so easy to save electricity – simply by switching off electrical appliances completely, rather than leaving them 'idling' in standby mode. The Fraunhofer Institute ...
Substance that knocks out anthrax
Nov 29, 2005 |
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Researchers at Stockholm University have found a substance that quickly knocks out the anthrax bacterium. The bacterium has been used in terrorist attacks in the US and Japan, for example.
Shrinking waistline is all in the mind
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Researchers have identified the area of the brain which controls perception of our body image by using an illusion that made people think their waists were shrinking.
Mars Rovers Just Keeps Going And Going
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Spirit, the untiring robotic "wonder child" sent by NASA to explore the eerily earthlike fourth planet from the sun, has completed one martian year - that's almost two Earth years - on Mars.
World's first tool for low-temperature carbon nanotube growth starts trials
Nov 29, 2005 |
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CEVP has developed a fabrication tool to commercialise the revolutionary low temperature carbon nanotube growth process developed by the University of Surrey's Advanced Technology Institute (ATI). The new ...
Nano-based antiradiation drug
Nov 29, 2005 |
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Balls of carbon atoms called buckyballs only a nanometer or billionth of a meter in diameter could serve as future antiradiation drugs to help protect against the side effects of cancer therapies or against dirty bombs, experts ...
Converting Carbon Nanotubes into RNA-Degrading Nano-Enzymes
Nov 29, 2005 |
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The researchers and scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign have achieved a major breakthrough in utilizing nanotechnology. The team of researchers has ...
Northern U.S. lakes losing ice coverage
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A University of Wisconsin study reportedly suggests northern U.S. lakes have been losing annual ice cover earlier each year for the past 30 years.
