Physicists Build a Quantum Gambling Machine
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Quantum gambling machines may not be popping up at futuristic casinos any time soon, but the devices could have other uses – such as enabling physicists to study game theory in situations where cheating is ...
Researchers Prove Existence of New Basic Element for Electronic Circuits -- 'Memristor'
Apr 30, 2008 |
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HP today announced that researchers from HP Labs have proven the existence of what had previously been only theorized as the fourth fundamental circuit element in electrical engineering.
Graphene-based gadgets may be just years away
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 30, 2008 |
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Researchers at The University of Manchester have produced tiny liquid crystal devices with electrodes made from graphene – an exciting development that could lead to computer and TV displays based on this ...
Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer Satellite Pins Down Timer in Stellar Ticking Time Bomb
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Using observations from NASA’s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE), an international team of astronomers has discovered a timing mechanism that allows them to predict exactly when a superdense star will unleash ...
Black hole expelled from its parent galaxy
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By an enormous burst of gravitational waves that accompanies the merger of two black holes the newly formed black hole was ejected from its galaxy. This extreme ejection event, which had been predicted by ...
Researchers create heart and blood cells from reprogrammed skin cells
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Stem cell researchers at UCLA were able to grow functioning cardiac cells using mouse skin cells that had been reprogrammed into cells with the same unlimited properties as embryonic stem cells. The finding is the first to ...
Scientists find rings of Jupiter are shaped in shadow
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 30, 2008 |
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Scientists from the University of Maryland and the Max-Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany appear to have solved a long-standing mystery about the cause of anomalies in Jupiter's gossamer ...
Scientists discover new ocean current
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have discovered a new climate pattern called the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation. This new pattern explains, for the first time, changes in the water that are ...
Atomic force microscopy reveals liquids adjust viscosity when confined, shaken
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Getting ketchup out of the bottle isn’t always easy. However, shaking the bottle before trying to pour allows the thick, gooey ketchup to flow more freely because it becomes more fluid when agitated. The opposite ...
Climate modelers see modern echo in '30s Dust Bowl
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 30, 2008 |
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Climate scientists using computer models to simulate the 1930s Dust Bowl on the U.S Great Plains have found that dust raised by farmers probably amplified and spread a natural drop in rainfall, turning an ...
Birds can tell if you are watching them -- because they are watching you
Biology /
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In humans, the eyes are said to be the ‘window to the soul’, conveying much about a person’s emotions and intentions. New research demonstrates for the first time that birds also respond to a human’s gaze.
Researchers explain how birds navigate
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It has long been known that birds and many other animals including turtles, salamanders and lobsters, use the Earth’s magnetic field to navigate, but the nature of their global positioning systems (GPS) has ...
You are what you eat? Maybe not for ancient man
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New findings suggest that the ancient human “cousin” known as the “Nutcracker Man” wasn’t regularly eating anything like nuts after all.
Scientists discover how some bacteria survive antibiotics
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Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have discovered how some bacteria can survive antibiotic treatment by turning on resistance mechanisms when exposed to the drugs. The findings, published in the April 24 ...
Rocks under the northern ocean are found to resemble ones far south
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 30, 2008 |
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Scientists probing volcanic rocks from deep under the frozen surface of the Arctic Ocean have discovered a special geochemical signature until now found only in the southern hemisphere. The rocks were dredged ...
