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Scientists determine Viking trade routes by the metal in their swords
Jan 05, 2009 |
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Scientists at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in Teddington have worked with the Wallace Collection to analyse the contents of Viking swords - and the results shed new light on trade routes in the middle ...
Ready when you are: First evidence that visual cues affect timing of sexual maturation
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Feb 14, 2007 |
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Scientists from the Universities of Exeter and Glasgow today reveal how some females become sexually mature more quickly if they see attractive males. Research published today in the Royal Society journal Biology Le ...
Archeologists find late 1500s shipwreck
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 21, 2007 |
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Archeologists in Britain have revealed the findings from a shipwrecked Tudor warship believed to have sunk around the year 1592.
Study: Bronze disk is astronomical clock
Mar 02, 2006 |
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A mysterious Bronze Age disk has reportedly been identified by a Hamburg, Germany, scientist as being one of the world's first astronomical clocks.
Upside-down world: DNA protecting protein helps cancer drug to kill cells
Apr 28, 2009 |
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Some DNA repair enzymes can become double-edged swords - If they work too slowly, they can block necessary cell maintenance and contribute to cell death. This could explain the somewhat mysterious success of the widely used ...
Photon-transistors for the supercomputers of the future
Aug 26, 2007 |
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Scientist from the Niels Bohr Institute at University of Copenhagen and from Harvard University have worked out a new theory which describe how the necessary transistors for the quantum computers of the future ...
Gene Tells Soldier Ants to Beat Swords into Ploughshares
Mar 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- While science has yet to discover what makes that little ol' ant think he'll move that rubber tree plant, researchers at the University of Toronto Mississauga have identified an enzyme in ...
New phase-contrast microscopy developed at PSI enhances X-ray images
May 10, 2006 |
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Imaging techniques are increasingly at the forefront of progress in science and technology. The Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) is among the leaders in this development. Imaging techniques turn objects visually ...
Sony latest to demo videogame motion-sensing controller
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jun 03, 2009 |
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Sony on Tuesday demonstrated a prototype motion-sensing videogame controller, as the maker of PlayStation consoles joined rivals in a trend away from playing with complicated buttons and joysticks.
The Medical Minute: There's no trick to a safe Halloween
Oct 22, 2008 |
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Halloween is supposed to be a spooky night, but parents don’t have to be scared about their kids’ safety if they follow some simple safety tips from Safe Kids Dauphin County, led by Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital, ...
The Medical Minute: There's no trick to a safe Halloween
Oct 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Halloween is supposed to be a spooky night, but parents don’t have to be scared about their kids’ safety if they follow some simple safety tips from Safe Kids Dauphin County, led by the Penn State Hershey ...
Lack of fuel may limit US nuclear power expansion
Mar 20, 2007 |
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Limited supplies of fuel for nuclear power plants may thwart the renewed and growing interest in nuclear energy in the United States and other nations, says an MIT expert on the industry.
Students Learn Better When The Numbers Don't Talk And Dance
Oct 10, 2005 |
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Most teachers believe that students learn better when abstract concepts are taught using concrete materials or examples -- but a new study suggests they may be wrong. Researchers found that when college students were tau ...
Certain female fish have special mating preference
May 15, 2005 |
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Ladies' choice A biologist at Washington University in St. Louis has shown that for some fish species, females prefer males with larger sexual organs, and actually choose them for mating. That does not exclude ...
Hunting for rhythm's DNA: Computational geometry unlocks a musical phylogeny
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Does Bo Diddley rule the world? Though he died last year, the iconic singer and guitarist of American blues and rock still rules the rhythms of the world, says computer scientist Godfried ...
