Robot Suit May Help You Achieve a Perfect Golf Swing
Oct 31, 2007 |
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Researchers have developed a vibrotactile feedback suit to help individuals learn new motor skills more quickly and accurately than by mimicking human teachers alone. Besides golf, dance and sports training, ...
Time to overhaul Newton's theory of gravitation? Galaxy cluster models cast doubt on dark matter
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For almost 75 years, astronomers have believed that the Universe has a large amount of unseen or ‘dark’ matter, thought to make up about five-sixths of the matter in the cosmos. With the conventional theory of gravitation, ...
Make Way for the Real Nanopod: Researchers Create First Fully Functional Nanotube Radio
Oct 31, 2007 |
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Make way for the real nanopod and make room in the Guinness World Records. A team of researchers with the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at ...
Punishing Innocent Downloaders Violates Free Speech, Professor Argues
Oct 31, 2007 |
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As record labels are dramatically increasing lawsuits over music piracy, a University of Arkansas law professor argues that the law's automatic punishment of illegal downloading violates the First Amendment.
Scientists discover new way to make water
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In a familiar high-school chemistry demonstration, an instructor first uses electricity to split liquid water into its constituent gases, hydrogen and oxygen. Then, by combining the two gases and igniting them with a spark, ...
Using nanotech to make Robocops
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 31, 2007 |
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Bulletproof jackets do not turn security guards, police officers and armed forces into Robocops, repelling the force of bullets in their stride. New research in carbon nanotechnology however could give those in the line ...
Researchers warn Gulf of Mexico 'dead zone' could grow
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The New Jersey-size Gulf of Mexico "dead zone" will likely grow in coming years unless federal policies to control it change, in part because the demand for corn-based ethanol fuel will worsen the problem, ...
Catch a Comet - No Telescope Required
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 31, 2007 |
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Usually comets are challenging little no-see-um fuzzballs. To see one often requires a dark sky, a good chart or a telescope that can "go-to" the object automatically.
Planet hunters announce three new finds
Oct 31, 2007 |
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The UK's leading team of planet-hunting astronomers, the Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP), today announced the discovery of three new planets. These extra-solar planets were seen to pass in front of, ...
Paleontologists Discover Ancient Jurassic Mammal with New Type of Teeth
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 31, 2007 |
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A team of Chinese and American scientists has discovered a new mammal from the 165 million-year-old lakebeds of the Jurassic Period in Northern China.
Nano-coatings grease earthquake zones
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 31, 2007 |
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Samples of rock from deep inside the San Andreas Fault could shake up scientists' notions about why some fault zones move slowly and steadily while others balk for a time and then shift suddenly and violently, producing major ...
Ears ringing? Scientists ID the brain's own clarion
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Brain scientists at Johns Hopkins have discovered how cells in the developing ear make their own noise, long before the ear is able to detect sound around them. The finding, reported in this week’s Nature, helps to explai ...
Study confirms supermassive black holes produce powerful galaxy-shaping winds
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Supermassive black holes can produce powerful winds that shape a galaxy and determine their own growth, confirms a group of scientists from Rochester Institute of Technology.
Coral reefs will be permanently damaged without urgent action
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Coral reefs could be damaged beyond repair, unless we change the way we manage the marine environment. New research by the Universities of Exeter and California Davis, published today in Nature, shows how da ...
8x8 Inc. Is Awarded VoIP Patent Allowing Standard & Internet Connection
Oct 31, 2007 |
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The Santa Clara, Calfornia based company 8x8 Inc. has been awarded a patent for the arrangement of a telephone and an interface unit that interfaces with a standard switched system and Internet communication network.
