New technique to compress light could open doors for optical communications
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have devised a way to squeeze light into tighter spaces than ever thought possible, potentially opening doors to new technology in the fields of optical ...
Scientists Shed Light on Heavy Electrons, Suggest New View of Superconductivity
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory, the University of California, Irvine, and the University of California, Davis have proposed a new characterization for the bizarre behavior of certain super-cooled ...
Prelude to the Higgs: A work for 2 bosons in the key of Z
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Scientists of the DZero collaboration at the US Department of Energy's Fermilab have announced the observation of pairs of Z bosons, force-carrying particles produced in proton-antiproton collisions at the ...
New research challenges notion that dinosaur soft tissues still survive
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Paleontologists in 2005 hailed research that apparently showed that soft, pliable tissues had been recovered from dissolved dinosaur bones, a major finding that would substantially widen the known range of ...
Cassini instrument confirms liquid surface lake on Titan
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
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Scientists have confirmed that at least one body in our solar system, other than Earth, has a surface liquid lake. Using an instrument on NASA's Cassini orbiter, they discovered that a lake-like feature in ...
Mars Express acquires sharpest images of martian moon Phobos
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 30, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Mars Express closed in on the intriguing martian moon Phobos at 6:49 CEST on 23 July, flying past at 3 km/s, only 93 km from the moon. The ESA spacecraft’s fly-bys of the moon have returned ...
Isthmus of Panama formed as result of plate tectonics
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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Contrary to previous evidence, a new University of Florida study shows the Isthmus of Panama was most likely formed by a Central American Peninsula colliding slowly with the South American continent through tectonic plate ...
Subprime lending not main trigger of real estate bubble
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Critics often point to subprime mortgage lending – the funding of home loans to borrowers with less-than-perfect credit – as the culprit in the unsustainable boom in U.S. home prices that eventually derailed ...
Diamonds show how Earth is recycled
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Tiny minerals found inside diamonds have provided us with a rare glimpse of the Earth’s deepest secrets. This exciting new research by a team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, ...
Frankincense provides relief to arthritis sufferers
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An enriched extract of the 'Indian Frankincense' herb Boswellia serrata has been proven to reduce the symptoms of osteoarthritis. Research published today in BioMed Central's open access journal Arthritis Research & Therapy ...
E-Textile Pants Identify Fall-Prone Elderly
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A pair of pants may help determine if elderly individuals have a high risk of slipping and falling by sensing fluctuations in their walking gait.
'Hidden' Van Gogh painting revealed
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A new technique allows pictures which were later painted over to be revealed once more. An international research team, including members from Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) and the University ...
Hybrid Human Faces Could Populate Google Street View
Technology / Computer Sciences
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Due to privacy concerns, Google has been blurring the faces of people caught on Google Street View cameras. But rather than blurring people's faces and diminishing the reality of the scene, researchers have ...
Miscanthus can meet US biofuels goal using less land than corn or switchgrass
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In the largest field trial of its kind in the United States, researchers have determined that the giant perennial grass Miscanthus x giganteus outperforms current biofuels sources – by a lot. Using Miscanthus ...
Study identifies changes to DNA in major depression and suicide
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Autopsies usually point to a cause of death but now a study of brain tissue collected during these procedures, may explain an underlying cause of major depression and suicide. The international research group, led by Dr. ...
