Deciphering the Mystery of Bee Flight
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One of the most elusive questions in science has finally been answered: How do bees fly? Although the issue is not as profound as how the universe began or what kick-started life on earth, the physics of bee ...
Nanotech discovery could have radical implications
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It has been 20 years since the futurist Eric Drexler daringly predicted a new world where miniaturized robots would build things one molecule at a time. The world of nanotechnology that Drexler envisioned ...
Lord May: Scientific values are threatened
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England's outgoing Royal Society President Robert May of Oxford is urging scientists to speak out against the climate change "denial lobby."
Optical vortex could look directly at extrasolar planets
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A new optical device might allow astronomers to view extrasolar planets directly without the annoying glare of the parent star. It would do this by "nulling" out the light of the parent star by exploiting its ...
Powerful New Supercomputer Analyzes Earthquakes
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One of the most powerful computer clusters in the academic world has been created at the California Institute of Technology in order to unlock the mysteries of earthquakes. The Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences' ...
Purdue 'metamaterial' could lead to better optics, communications
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Engineers at Purdue University are the first researchers to create a material that has a "negative index of refraction" in the wavelength of light used for telecommunications, a step that could lead to better ...
Physicists coax six atoms into quantum 'cat' state
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Scientists at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have coaxed six atoms into spinning together in two opposite directions at the same time, a so-called Schrödinger ...
A Planet With Planets? Spitzer Finds Cosmic Oddball
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Planets are everywhere these days. They have been spotted around more than 150 stars, and evidence is growing that they also circle "failed," or miniature, stars called brown dwarfs. Now, astronomers using ...
Turner Network, Inphase, Hitachi Maxell Make History On First Play-Out-To-Air From Holographic System
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InPhase Technologies announced that Turner Network Television became the first television network to air content originating on holographic storage.
Buried craters and underground ice - Mars Express uncovers depths of Mars
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For the first time in the history of planetary exploration, the MARSIS radar on board ESA's Mars Express has provided direct information about the deep subsurface of Mars. First data include buried impact ...
In Depth: Tide out on Titan? A soft solid surface for Huygens
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The Surface Science Package (SSP) revealed that Huygens could have hit and cracked an ice ‘pebble’ on landing, and then it slumped into a sandy surface possibly dampened by liquid methane. Had the tide on Titan ...
Astronomers Find Neptune-Mass Planet Around Small Star
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A team of French and Swiss astronomers have discovered one of the lightest exoplanets ever found using the HARPS instrument on ESO's 3.6-m telescope at La Silla (Chile). The new planet orbits a star belonging ...
India calls for new telecom players
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In yet another step to woo foreign investors and new players to its burgeoning telecom sector, India has decided to open up the latest mobile rage of 3G services only to new telecom players that have not started operations ...
Engineers discover why toucan beaks are models of lightweight strength
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As a boy growing up in Brazil 40 years ago, Marc A. Meyers marveled at the lightweight toughness of toucan beaks that he occasionally found on the forest floor. Now a materials scientist and professor of ...
Yale scientists map cell signaling network
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Yale University scientists have mapped, for the first time, the proteins and kinase signaling network that control how cells of higher organisms operate.
