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What really prompts the dog's "guilty look"
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jun 11, 2009 |
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What dog owner has not come home to a broken vase or other valuable items and a guilty-looking dog slouching around the house? By ingeniously setting up conditions where the owner was misinformed as to whether ...
Chameleon for Optoelectronics
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 13, 2007 |
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A liquid that changes its color “on demand” and can take on any color of the rainbow one desires?
Experimental atomic clock uses ytterbium 'pancakes'
Physics /
Mar 06, 2006 |
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Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology working with Russian colleagues have significantly improved the design of optical atomic clocks that hold thousands of atoms in a lattice made ...
Evidence of macroscopic quantum tunneling detected in nanowires
May 27, 2009 |
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A team of researchers at the University of Illinois has demonstrated that, counter to classical Newtonian mechanics, an entire collection of superconducting electrons in an ultrathin superconducting wire is ...
Explosive growth of life on Earth fueled by early greening of planet
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 08, 2009 |
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Earth's 4.5-billion-year history is filled with several turning points when temperatures changed dramatically, asteroids bombarded the planet and life forms came and disappeared. But one of the biggest moments ...
Withdrawal syndrome after consumption of 'Spice Gold'
Jul 09, 2009 |
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A clinical report from Dresden supports the impression that "Spice Gold" is strongly addictive.
Wasteland and wilderness
Oct 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Harvard science historian and physicist Peter Galison is using part of his Radcliffe year to explore the intersections of forbidden wilderness and nuclear wasteland.
Indonesian imams OK Facebook - but no flirting!
May 22, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Muslim clerics debating the exploding popularity of Facebook in Indonesia said Friday that followers could use the networking site to connect with friends or for work - but not to gossip or flirt.
Consumer advocates find BPA in food packaging
Nov 03, 2009 |
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A consumer advocacy group's analysis of canned goods has found measurable levels of the chemical additive bisphenol A across a range of foods, including some labeled "BPA-free."
Vatican searches for extra-terrestrial life
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 10, 2009 |
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Is there life on other planets? The Vatican has asked that age-old question over the past five days during a "study week" on astrobiology gathering leading scientists from around the world.
Partners can help or hinder attempts at changing diet
Mar 25, 2008 |
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For people trying to make a change in their diet, significant others generally play a positive and supportive role, but sometimes respond in negative ways, according to a study in the March/April Journal of Nutrition Education an ...
China's 1-child policy could backfire on its elderly
Aug 28, 2007 |
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China’s efforts to control population growth in the present may cause problems for the county’s senior citizens in the future. This prediction comes from a Saint Louis University School of Medicine researcher who spent a ...
Indonesian clerics want rules for Facebook
May 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Muslim clerics are seeking ways to regulate online behavior in Indonesia, saying the exploding popularity of social networking sites like Facebook could encourage illicit sex.
Study shows transfer of heavy metals from water to fish in Huelva estuary
Jun 16, 2009 |
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A team of researchers from the University of Cadiz has confirmed that zinc, copper and lead are present at high levels in the water and sediments of the Huelva estuary, and have studied how some of these heavy metals are ...
Japanese government plans powerful information-gathering satellite
Feb 02, 2009 |
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Aiming to drastically beef up the performance of the nation's intelligence satellites, the government of Japan will embark on a research and development program in fiscal year 2009 to develop an optical information-gathering ...
