Physicist Claims First Real Demonstration of Cold Fusion
May 27, 2008 |
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To many people, cold fusion sounds too good to be true. The idea is that, by creating nuclear fusion at room temperature, researchers can generate a nearly unlimited source of power that uses water as fuel ...
Numbers follow a surprising law of digits, and scientists can't explain why
May 10, 2007 |
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Does your house address start with a 1? According to a strange mathematical law, about 1/3 of house numbers have 1 as their first digit. The same holds true for many other areas that have almost nothing in ...
South Pole Neutrino Detector Could Yield Evidences of String Theory
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Jan 26, 2006 |
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Researchers at Northeastern University and the University of California, Irvine say that scientists might soon have evidence for extra dimensions and other exotic predictions of string theory. Early results ...
Discovery supports theory of Alzheimer's disease as form of diabetes
Sep 26, 2007 |
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Insulin, it turns out, may be as important for the mind as it is for the body. Research in the last few years has raised the possibility that Alzheimer’s memory loss could be due to a novel third form of diabetes.
3-D model shows big body of water in Earth's mantle
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 08, 2007 |
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A seismologist at Washington University in St. Louis has made the first 3-D model of seismic wave damping — diminishing — deep in the Earth's mantle and has revealed the existence of an underground water reservoir ...
New and Improved Antimatter Spaceship for Mars Missions
Apr 17, 2006 |
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Most self-respecting starships in science fiction stories use antimatter as fuel for a good reason – it’s the most potent fuel known. While tons of chemical fuel are needed to propel a human mission to Mars, ...
First Successful Demonstration of Carbon Dioxide Air Capture Technology Achieved
Apr 25, 2007 |
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Global Research Technologies, LLC (GRT), a technology research and development company, and Klaus Lackner from Columbia University have achieved the successful demonstration of a bold new technology to capture ...
Backs to the Future
Jun 12, 2006 |
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New analysis of the language and gesture of South America's indigenous Aymara people indicates they have a concept of time opposite to all the world's studied cultures -- so that the past is ahead of them and ...
Before the Big Bang: A Twin Universe?
Apr 09, 2008 |
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Until very recently, asking what happened at or before the Big Bang was considered by physicists to be a religious question. General relativity theory just doesn’t go there – at T=0, it spews out zeros, infinities, ...
First Ever World Map of Happiness Produced
Jul 28, 2006 |
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A University of Leicester psychologist has produced the first ever 'world map of happiness.'
Inventor Doesn't Dare Say 'Perpetual Motion Machine'
Feb 07, 2008 |
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Thane Heins knows the track record of inventors that claim to make breakthroughs in power generation methods, especially when they claim to defy the second law of thermodynamics. Every so often, a (usually ...
Z machine exceeds two billion degrees Kelvin: hotter than the interiors of stars
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Mar 08, 2006 |
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Sandia’s Z machine has produced plasmas that exceed temperatures of 2 billion degrees Kelvin — hotter than the interiors of stars. The unexpectedly hot output, if its cause were understood and harnessed, could ...
Solar power game-changer: 'Near perfect' absorption of sunlight, from all angles
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 03, 2008 |
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No matter which way you look at it, the notion of harvesting energy from the sun to power our homes and businesses is more absorbing than ever.
Astronomers find gaping hole in the Universe
Aug 23, 2007 |
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University of Minnesota astronomers have found an enormous hole in the Universe, nearly a billion light-years across, empty of both normal matter such as stars, galaxies and gas, as well as the mysterious, ...
Mini Nuclear Power Plants Could Power 20,000 Homes (Update)
Nov 12, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Underground nuclear power plants no bigger than a hot tub may soon provide electricity for communities around the world. Measuring about 1.5 meters across, the mini reactors can each power ...
