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Scientists discover why flies are so hard to swat
Biology /
Aug 28, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Over the past two decades, Michael Dickinson has been interviewed by reporters hundreds of times about his research on the biomechanics of insect flight. One question from the press has always dogged him: ...
New Method for Creating Tough Metallic Glass Composites
Feb 28, 2008 |
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Scientists at the California Institute of Technology have developed a new strategy for creating "liquid metal" that makes it able to bend significantly without breaking, while retaining a strength twice that of titanium. ...
Bioengineers develop 'microscope on a chip'
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Jul 28, 2008 |
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Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have turned science fiction into reality with their development of a super-compact high-resolution microscope, small enough to fit on a finger tip. This ...
Worlds in collision
Sep 23, 2008 |
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Two terrestrial planets orbiting a mature sun-like star some 300 light-years from Earth recently suffered a violent collision, astronomers at UCLA, Tennessee State University and the California Institute of ...
Geobiologists Discover Unique 'Magnetic Death Star' Fossil
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 21, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of scientists has discovered microscopic, magnetic fossils resembling spears and spindles, unlike anything previously seen, among sediment layers deposited during an ...
Caltech 4-D microscope revolutionizes the way we look at the nano world
Nov 20, 2008 |
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More than a century ago, the development of the earliest motion picture technology made what had been previously thought "magical" a reality: capturing and recreating the movement and dynamism of the world ...
Genetic Underpinnings of Wood Digestion by Termite Gut Microbes Revealed
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Nov 21, 2007 |
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When termites are chewing on your home, your immediate thought probably isn't "I wonder how they digest that stuff?" But biologists have been gnawing on the question for more than a century. The key is not just the termite, ...
Physicists Transcribe Entanglement into and out of a Quantum Memory
Mar 06, 2008 |
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Scientists at the California Institute of Technology have laid the groundwork for a crucial step in quantum information science. They show how entanglement, an essential property of quantum mechanics, can be generated between ...
Intergalactic 'shot in the dark' shocks astronomers
Dec 18, 2007 |
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A team of astronomers has discovered a cosmic explosion that seems to have come from the middle of nowhere — thousands of light-years from the nearest galaxy-sized collection of stars, gas, and dust. This ...
High-Temp Superconducting Nanowire System is First of its Kind
Nov 26, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from the California Institute of Technology have, for the first time, created an array of nanowires that are superconducting at relatively high temperatures. This work, published ...
Not a Quirk But a Quark ... a Quark Star!
Jun 27, 2008 |
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Astronomers recently announced that they have found a novel explanation for a rare type of super-luminous stellar explosion that may have produced a new type of object known as a quark star.
New Technique Makes Tissues Transparent
Jan 29, 2008 |
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If humans had see-through skin like a jellyfish, spotting disease like cancer would be a snap: Just look, and see a tumor form or grow.
A new window on the universe
Nov 16, 2007 |
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Using new tools to look at the universe, says Patrick Brady, often has led to discoveries that change the course of science. History is full of examples.
Supercomputer simulation of universe may help in search for missing matter
Dec 06, 2007 |
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Much of the gaseous mass of the universe is bound up in a tangled web of cosmic filaments that stretch for hundreds of millions of light-years, according to a new supercomputer study by a team led by the University ...
World's only ultrafast electron microscope takes 4-D 'movies' of molecules
Dec 24, 2007 |
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A unique electron microscope that can help create four-dimensional “movies” of molecules may hold the answers to research questions in a number of fields including chemistry, biology, and physics, according to an article ...
