Can Helium-4 Transition to a Supersolid?
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For forty years supersolid behavior has been predicted, and since the 1970s, theories about supersolid behavior involving helium-4 have been developed. However, it wasn’t until 2004 that some evidence of supersolid behavior ...
NASA to launch shuttle mission for Hubble telescope (Update)
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 31, 2006 |
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Shuttle astronauts will make one final house call to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope as part of a mission to extend and improve the observatory's capabilities through 2013. NASA Administrator Michael Griffin ...
Microwave pre-cooking of chips reduces cancer chemicals
Oct 31, 2006 |
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Microwaving your chips before you fry them reduces the levels of a cancer-causing substance, reveals findings published today in the SCI’s Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture.
The power behind insect flight: Researchers reveal key kinetic component
Biology /
Oct 31, 2006 |
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Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of Vermont have discovered a key molecular mechanism that allows tiny flies and other "no-see-ums" to whirl their wings at a dizzying rate of up to 1,000 ...
Computing catches up with theory
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Good science requires great patience. In many fields, ideas and theories surge ahead while the tools to test them can take decades to catch up. When Pe-ter Richardson began talking with colleagues who were ...
Start-up looks to turn 'lights out' on flu, other viruses
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 31, 2006 |
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Imagine if killing flu viruses and other microbes were as simple as turning on a light. Exposing a unique surface coating to light may in fact hold the key to protecting you from virtually all viruses and bacteria, including ...
2 Viking finds in Norway, Sweden
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 31, 2006 |
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Norwegian archaeologists have found a Viking farmer buried with horse, sword, spear and shield near Trondheim.
Antiprotons 4 times more effective than protons for cell irradiation
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A pioneering experiment at CERN with potential future application in cancer therapy has produced its first results. Started in 2003, ACE (Antiproton Cell Experiment) is the first investigation of the biological effects of ...
Photoswitches could restore sight to blind retinas
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 31, 2006 |
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A research center newly created by the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory aims to put light-sensitive switches in the body's cells that can be flipped on and off as ...
Nanotechnology goes out on a wing
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What does a colorful and noisy backyard insect have to do with nanotechnology? Plenty, according to Jin Zhang and Zhongfan Liu, both professors at Peking University.
Measles virus used to kill cancer cells
Oct 31, 2006 |
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U.S. researchers are starting the second of several pending molecular medicine studies in patients using measles to kill cancer cells.
Study busts water saving myths
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A comprehensive scientific study of outdoor water use has found some water saving ideas could actually be urban myths that are wasting thousands of litres each day. The project by the Cooperative Research Centre for Irrigation ...
Recovering Pompeii
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Artists in ancient Pompeii painted the town red 2,000 years ago with a brilliant crimson pigment that dominated many of the doomed city's wall paintings. Now scientists from France and Italy are reporting in ...
The Spooky Sun
Oct 31, 2006 |
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Just in time for Halloween, astronomers have taken a haunting new portrait of the sun. In this color-coded image from the Hinode spacecraft (formerly Solar-B), the sun glows eerily orange as though celebrating ...
Scientists study loneliness
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
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A U.S. scientist studying physiological dynamics of day-to-day experiences say older adults who go to bed lonely have higher cortisol levels the next day.
