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Space Sportilization: Former Redskin Player Ken Harvey Offers A 21st Century Game on the Moon
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 24, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Ken Harvey, former linebacker for the Washington Redskins is trying to capture the imagination of young people by proposing a 21st century game of "Float Ball" to be played in zero-gravity. ...
New super-bouyant material: Life preserver might float a horse
Mar 11, 2009 |
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Here's a story that might float your boat: Researchers in China are reporting the development of miniature super-bouyant boats that float so well that an ordinary life preserver made from the same material might support a ...
Dancing droplets
Nov 18, 2008 |
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Our blood, sweat and tears are three precious fluids that can answer lots of questions about the state of our health but testing small amounts of bodily fluids, without contaminating them through contact with ...
Astronomers discover strange new planet
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 14, 2006 |
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U.S. astronomers have discovered a planet unlike any other known in the universe. Smithsonian scientists say the new planet was discovered using a network of small automated telescopes known as HATl. The planet ...
Remote Wash. community to get phone service
Jul 23, 2009 |
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(AP) -- One of the most remote communities in the lower 48 states is finally set to get phone service.
Ocean Circulation Doesn't Work As Expected
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The familiar model of Atlantic ocean currents that shows a discrete "conveyor belt" of deep, cold water flowing southward from the Labrador Sea is probably all wet.
Sand dollar larvae use cloning to 'make change,' confound predators
Biology /
Mar 13, 2008 |
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Nature is full of examples of creatures that try to look as big as possible in an effort to scare away potential predators. But to avoid being eaten alive the larvae of sand dollars appear to have a different strategy, in ...
Little Rafts Battle Anthrax
Mar 02, 2007 |
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Whether as a bioweapon or as a “mere” animal epidemic, anthrax is a serious threat. A team of Canadian and American researchers has now developed a method to increase the effectiveness of an anthrax toxin inhibitor.
Dutch, making peace with water, tackle overcrowding
Oct 18, 2009 |
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About a hundred houses float on a lake in the Amsterdam neighbourhood of Ijburg --a testament to how the Dutch are trying to turn their traditional enemy, water, into an ally against overcrowding.
New method sorts nanotubes by size
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 23, 2006 |
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Rice University scientists have developed the first method for sorting semiconducting carbon nanotubes based on their size, a long-awaited development that could form the basis of a nanotube purification system ...
The unicycling clown phenomenon: Talking, walking and driving with cell phone users
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 19, 2009 |
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Everyone tends to float off into space once in a while and fail to see what is sitting there right in front of them. Recently researchers decided to put the theory of "inattentional blindness" to the test: the unicycling ...
New Balloon Successfully Flight-Tested Over Antarctica
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA and the National Science Foundation have successfully launched and demonstrated a newly designed super pressure balloon prototype that may enable a new era of high-altitude scientific ...
Paramecia adapt their swimming to changing gravitational force
Sep 18, 2006 |
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Using a high-powered electromagnet, Brown University physicists Karine Guevorkian and James Valles have created a topsy-turvy world for the single-celled paramecium. They have managed to increase, eliminate ...
Greenpeace opposes Italian gas terminal
Oct 29, 2007 |
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Environmental activists want to block Italian plans to install a floating natural gas terminal in the middle of a whale and dolphin sanctuary.
Hoverit Unveils MagLev Chair
Jan 17, 2008 |
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British company Hoverit, Ltd., has recently introduced "The Lounger," a chair that defies gravity by hovering a few inches above its base. The Lounger uses permanent magnets in the chair and base to life the ...
