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Hackers leak e-mails, stoke climate debate
Nov 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Computer hackers have broken into a server at a well-respected climate change research center in Britain and posted hundreds of private e-mails and documents online - stoking debate over whether some scientists have ...
Restored machine to explore mysteries of Big Bang
Nov 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Scientists are preparing the world's largest atom smasher to explore the depths of matter after successfully restarting the $10 billion machine following more than a year of repairs.
Researcher: Faint writing seen on Shroud of Turin (Update)
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 20, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus. Experts say the historian may be reading ...
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UN: Fight climate change with free condoms
Space & Earth / Environment
Nov 18, 2009 |
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Mysteriously warm times in Antarctica
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 18, 2009 |
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Pulling the plug on hybrid myths
Technology / Energy
Nov 19, 2009 |
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Study raises concerns about outdoor second-hand smoke
Medicine & Health / Health
Nov 18, 2009 |
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Doubts raised on nuclear industry viability
Physics / General Physics
Nov 19, 2009 |
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Using superconducting probes to get a picture of what it's like inside CNTs,
Nov 20, 2009 |
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Researchers Find Innate Correlations Among Different Power Law Phenomena,
Nov 17, 2009 |
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Building a more versatile laser,
Nov 16, 2009 |
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H1N1 Virus Can Be Killed by Acidic Ozone Water,
Nov 09, 2009 |
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New Digital 'Electronics' Concept May Continue Moore's Law,
Nov 05, 2009 |
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Researchers Find Innate Correlations Among Different Power Law Phenomena
Nov 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Studying the patterns that emerge in natural and social phenomena is a popular area of research, although usually individual phenomena are studied separately from each other. In a recent study, ...
Extinct goat was cold-blooded
Nov 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An extinct goat that lived on a barren Mediterranean island survived for millions of years by reducing in size and by becoming cold-blooded, which has never before been discovered in mammals.
Vaccine being developed to help smokers quit
Medicine & Health / Medications
Nov 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Glaxo-SmithKline has joined forces with Nabi Pharmaceuticals to produce a vaccine to help smokers give up their addiction permanently.
Bigger not necessarily better, when it comes to brains
Nov 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Tiny insects could be as intelligent as much bigger animals, despite only having a brain the size of a pinhead, say scientists at Queen Mary, University of London.
Nanoparticles used in common household items caused genetic damage in mice
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Nov 16, 2009 |
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Titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles, found in everything from cosmetics to sunscreen to paint to vitamins, caused systemic genetic damage in mice, according to a comprehensive study conducted by researchers at UCLA's Jonsson ...
Mystery of the Solar Tsunami -- Solved (w/ Video)
Nov 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes you really can believe your eyes. That's what NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) is telling researchers about a controversial phenomenon on the sun known as ...
Proton's party pals may alter its internal structure
Nov 18, 2009 |
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A recent experiment at the DOE's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has found that a proton's nearest neighbors in the nucleus of the atom may modify the proton's internal structure.
Beyond sunlight: Explorers census 17,650 ocean species between edge of darkness and black abyss (w/ Video)
Nov 22, 2009 |
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Census of Marine Life scientists have inventoried an astonishing abundance, diversity and distribution of deep sea species that have never known sunlight - creatures that somehow manage a living in a frigid ...
Oceans' uptake of manmade carbon may be slowing
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 18, 2009 |
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The oceans play a key role in regulating climate, absorbing more than a quarter of the carbon dioxide that humans put into the air. Now, the first year-by-year accounting of this mechanism during the industrial ...
Pilot study relates phthalate exposure to less-masculine play by boys
Nov 16, 2009 |
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A study of 145 preschool children reports, for the first time, that when the concentrations of two common phthalates in mothers' prenatal urine are elevated their sons are less likely to play with male-typical toys and games, ...
Museum: Galileo's fingers, tooth are found
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again and will soon be put on display, an Italian museum ...
IBM makes Big Blue cloud
Nov 16, 2009 |
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IBM on Monday announced it has created the world's largest business computing "cloud" capable of holding an amount of digital data on a par with 250 billion iTunes songs.
Google's SPDY will speed up downloads
Nov 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As part of its effort to speed up the Web, Google is experimenting with SPDY, a new application layer protocol, that it hopes will speed up the conversation between browsers and Web servers ...
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New insights into the life of the Maya
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 16, 2009 |
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Alcohol helps lower heart disease risk for men: study
Medicine & Health / Health
Nov 19, 2009 |
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Cigarettes harbor many pathogenic bacteria: Study
Medicine & Health / Health
Nov 19, 2009 |
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Fossil fuel CO2 emissions up by 29 percent since 2000
Space & Earth / Environment
Nov 17, 2009 |
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Accidental discovery produces durable new blue pigment for multiple applications
Chemistry / Biochemistry
Nov 16, 2009 |
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Turning heat to electricity... efficiently
Physics / General Physics
Nov 18, 2009 |
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Three of a kind: Revealing language’s universal essence
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 20, 2009 |
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Crashing the size barrier
Physics / General Physics
Nov 18, 2009 |
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Hunting for Planets in the Dark
Space & Earth / Astronomy
Nov 19, 2009 |
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Battery Research Aims To Store Renewable Energy
Technology / Energy
Nov 19, 2009 |
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Volatile gas could turn Rwandan lake into a freshwater time bomb
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 16, 2009 |
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China harnesses mountain wind power
Technology / Energy
Nov 22, 2009 |
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Common plastics chemicals linked to ADHD symptoms
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 19, 2009 |
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Japanese researchers film rare baby fish 'fossil'
Biology / Plants & Animals
Nov 17, 2009 |
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Computer Based on Insights From The Brain Moves Closer to Reality
Technology / Computer Sciences
Nov 18, 2009 |
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The evolution of orchids
Biology / Plants & Animals
Nov 19, 2009 |
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'Rationalizer' bracelet tells traders when they're stressed
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Nov 17, 2009 |
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One word: bioplastics
Chemistry / Materials Science
Nov 17, 2009 |
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Fighting climate change by turning CO2 to stone
Space & Earth / Environment
Nov 17, 2009 |
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New on-off 'switch' triggers and reverses paralysis in animals with a beam of light (w/ Video)
Chemistry / Biochemistry
Nov 18, 2009 |
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