Archive: 05/31/2007
Corals reveal impact of land use
Using the corals on the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) as a history book, researchers have linked land use along the coast to decades of declining water quality and poor coral health.
May 31, 2007 |
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People Think They Reap What They Sow
People gauge how responsive their partners are primarily by how they themselves respond to their partners—not the other way around, according to a series of Yale studies in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 31, 2007 |
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Love still dominates pop song lyrics, but with raunchier language
“Make love not war” may have been a popular slogan of the ’60s, but romance still figures prominently — and perhaps even more so — in today’s hit music, a new University of Florida study finds. The difference lies in the ...
May 31, 2007 |
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Argonne Anti-Jet-Lag Diet helps summer travelers beat jet lag
With the summer travel season beginning, many travelers are beating jet lag with the Anti-Jet-Lag Diet developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory.
May 31, 2007 |
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Students cut grass with robotic-controlled mower
Cutting the lawn has taken on significant importance for a group of Wright State University students. The 11-member team is entered in the Fourth Annual Institute of Navigation (ION) Autonomous Lawnmower Competition hosted ...
May 31, 2007 |
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University of Victoria Gets Its Place Among The Stars
Looking for directions to UVic? No sweat. Hop on a space shuttle and head for the middle of an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. A mere 416 million km from Earth you’ll find a 3.5-km chunk of rock hurtling away from ...
May 31, 2007 |
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Report Offers Guidance on How to Safely Explore Vast Aquatic Systems Buried Under Antarctic Ice
The National Science Foundation (NSF) should work within the environmental framework of the international Antarctic Treaty system to develop a global scientific consensus on minimally disruptive ways to investigate ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 31, 2007 |
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Gazing up at the man in the star?
[B]Researchers take picture of the face of Altair, a first for a star like our own[/B] Using a suite of four telescopes, astronomers have captured an image of Altair, one of the closest stars to our own and ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 31, 2007 |
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Philandering female felines forgo fidelity
[B]Cheetah study reveals many litters have more than one father[/B] While promiscuity in the animal kingdom is generally a male thing, researchers for the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Zoological Society of London (ZS ...
Biology /
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NASA pondering a future grapple on the James Webb Space Telescope
When it launches in 2013 the James Webb Space Telescope will settle in an orbit roughly one million miles from the Earth. That distance is currently too far for any astronaut or any other existing NASA servicing ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 31, 2007 |
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Engineers work on car engine redesign
U.S. engineers have created the first computational model to track engine performance from one combustion cycle to the next for a new type of engine.
May 31, 2007 |
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Physicist demonstrates how light can be used to remotely operate micromachines
A research team led by Umar Mohideen, a physicist at the University of California, Riverside, has demonstrated in the laboratory that the Casimir force – the small attractive force that acts between two close parallel uncharged ...
May 31, 2007 |
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West African Ocean sediment core links monsoons to global climate evolution
Monsoons, the life-giving, torrential rains of Asia and Africa, have an ancient, unsuspected connection to previous Ice Age climate cycles, according to scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and at Kiel ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 31, 2007 |
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NASA-funded robotic sub finds bottom of world's deepest sinkhole
[B]Carnegie Mellon researchers use sonar to map, demystify El Zacatón[/B] A robotic vehicle designed for underwater exploration plunged repeatedly into the depths of Mexico’s mysterious El Zacatón sinkhole in late May, fin ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 31, 2007 |
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Lessons from the orangutans: Upright walking may have begun in the trees
By observing wild orangutans, a research team has found that walking on two legs may have arisen in relatively ancient, tree-dwelling apes, rather than in more recent human ancestors that had already descended ...
Biology /
May 31, 2007 |
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