New Nanomaterial, 'NanoBuds,' Combines Fullerenes and Nanotubes
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 30, 2007 |
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Researchers have created a hybrid carbon nanomaterial that merges single-walled carbon nanotubes and spherical carbon-atom cages called fullerenes. The new structures, dubbed NanoBuds because they resemble ...
Scientists shed new light on cold fusion
Mar 30, 2007 |
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U.S. scientists say the concept of cold fusion, a controversial concept once hailed as a scientific breakthrough, may be ready for rebirth.
Abrupt climate change more common than believed
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 30, 2007 |
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It came on quickly and then lasted nearly two decades, eventually killing more than one million people and affecting 50 million more. All of this makes the Sahel drought, which first struck West Africa in the late 1960s, ...
Oil production in the world close to peak
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 30, 2007 |
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In a worst-case scenario, global oil production may reach its peak next year, before starting to decline. In a best-case scenario, this peak would not be reached until 2018. These are the estimates made by Fredrik Robelius, ...
Tesla Roadster: Test Driving Your Electric Dream Car
Mar 30, 2007 |
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We take a ride in the Tesla Roadster, a 100-percent electric car inspired by PC technology. Due on the market this fall for under $100K, the Roadster does zero to 60 in 4 seconds.
Neuroscientists find different brain regions fuel attention
Mar 30, 2007 |
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If you spotted an anaconda poised to strike, the signal to pay attention would originate in a different part of your brain than if you gazed at an anaconda in the zoo, neuroscientists at MIT's Picower Institute ...
Danish researches solve virus puzzle
Biology /
Mar 30, 2007 |
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How is virus as for example HIV and bird flu able to make the cells within a human body work for the purpose of the virus? Researchers at the University of Copenhagen shed new light on this question.
Blackboard Problems Leave Vista on Double-Secret Probation
Mar 30, 2007 |
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On college campuses, Microsoft's Vista operating system may be in danger of failing courses that use Blackboard, a key software program for communication between teachers and students.
Ancient rock collisions may have formed Western Australia
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 30, 2007 |
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A new 3D picture of the geology of Western Australia, captured by measuring seismic waves from deep in the Earth’s crust, has provided evidence that it was created when vast regions of ancient world slammed into each other.
Traces of nanobubbles determine nano-boiling
Mar 30, 2007 |
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Using a microscope and some extreme “snapshot” photography with shutter speeds only a few nanoseconds long, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Cornell University have uncovered ...
New algorithms improve automated image labeling
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 30, 2007 |
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A Google image search for "tiger" yields many tiger photos – but also returns images of a tiger pear cactus stuck in a tire, a racecar, Tiger Woods, the boxer Dick Tiger, Antarctica, and many others. Why? Today’s ...
Congress Commends UM-Led Math Team's Breakthrough E8 Calculation
Mar 30, 2007 |
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A major mathematical breakthrough by a team of 18 scientists, led by University of Maryland mathematician Jeffrey Adams, has been commended by Congress, one week after the work made international headlines when it was announced by the American Instit ...
Preventing cancer without killing cells
Mar 30, 2007 |
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Inducing senescence in aged cells may be sufficient to guard against spontaneous cancer development, according to a paper published online this week in EMBO reports. It was previously unknown whether cellular senescence or ...
Titanium dioxide -- It slices, it dices ...
Mar 30, 2007 |
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Chemists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Arizona State University have proposed an elegantly simple technique for cleaving proteins into convenient pieces for analysis. The prototype ...
Handheld instrument assesses dental disease in minutes
Mar 30, 2007 |
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Who would have guessed that when the Star Trek medical diagnostic tool known as the tricorder makes its appearance in real life, the first user might be . . . your dentist.
