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Weird wave behavior may explain why the whirligig walks in circles Mar 04, 2008 The whirligig beetle is named for its trademark of walking in circles on the surface of water. Upon investigating a new phenomenon of water wave generation, scientists might now understand why.

Structure reveals how cells 'sugar-coat' proteins Mar 11, 2008 Biologists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, Stony Brook University, and the University of Wurzburg, Germany, have deciphered the structure of a large protein complex responsible for adding ...

Ocean May Exist Beneath Titan's Crust Mar 20, 2008 NASA's Cassini spacecraft has discovered evidence that points to the existence of an underground ocean of water and ammonia on Saturn's moon Titan. The findings made using radar measurements of Titan's rotation ...

Wandering poles left scars on Europa May 14, 2008 Curved features on Jupiter’s moon Europa may indicate that its poles have wandered by almost 90°, report scientists from the Carnegie Institution, Lunar and Planetary Institute, and University of California, ...

More Evidence for a Revolutionary Theory of Water Jun 30, 2008 The traditional picture of how liquid water behaves on a molecular level is wrong, according to new experimental evidence collected by a collaboration of researchers from the Department of Energy's Stanford ...

Physicists Explain Why Liquid Optical Fibers Don't Collapse Jul 29, 2008 (PhysOrg.com) -- For several years, physicists have known that liquid columns can be used to guide light. By trapping a light beam, a liquid column can act like an optical fiber, but with a liquid sheathing ...

Physicists Investigate Controversy over Room-Temperature Ice Aug 05, 2008 (PhysOrg.com) -- By confining water in nano-sized spaces, physicists from Leiden University in the Netherlands have turned water into ice at room temperature. While it’s not the first time scientists have created room-temperature ...

Plate tectonics started over 4 billion years ago, geochemists report Nov 26, 2008 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new picture of the early Earth is emerging, including the surprising finding that plate tectonics may have started more than 4 billion years ago — much earlier than scientists had believed, ...