Dark Energy and Dark Matter – The Results of Flawed Physics?
Sep 11, 2006 |
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There are few scientific concepts as intriguing and mysterious as dark energy and dark matter, said to make up as much as 95 percent of all the energy and matter in the universe. And even though scientists ...
What Happened Before the Big Bang?
Jul 01, 2007 |
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New discoveries about another universe whose collapse appears to have given birth to the one we live in today will be announced in the early on-line edition of the journal Nature Physics on 1 July 2007 and wi ...
Meditation found to increase brain size
Jan 27, 2006 |
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People who meditate grow bigger brains than those who don't. Researchers at Harvard, Yale, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found the first evidence that meditation can alter the physical ...
New plastic is strong as steel, transparent
Oct 04, 2007 |
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By mimicking a brick-and-mortar molecular structure found in seashells, University of Michigan researchers created a composite plastic that's as strong as steel but lighter and transparent.
Tabletop nuclear fusion device developed
Physics /
Feb 13, 2006 |
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Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a tabletop accelerator that produces nuclear fusion at room temperature, providing confirmation of an earlier experiment conducted at the University ...
Robot Discovers Itself, Adapts to Injury
Nov 16, 2006 |
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Nothing can possibly go wrong ... go wrong ... go wrong ... The truth behind the old joke is that most robots are programmed with a fairly rigid "model" of what they and the world around them are like. If a ...
Indians predated Newton 'discovery' by 250 years
Aug 13, 2007 |
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A little known school of scholars in southwest India discovered one of the founding principles of modern mathematics hundreds of years before Newton according to new research.
Scientists Turn Tequila into Diamonds
Nov 07, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Whoever thought that science was a dry subject might change their mind after learning about a new discovery in which tequila is turned into diamonds. A team of Mexican scientists found that ...
New nanoassembly technique is created
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 27, 2006 |
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U.S. chemists at Rice University say they have discovered how to assemble gold and silver nanoparticle building blocks into larger structures.
Scientists and engineers simulate jet colliding with World Trade Center
Sep 11, 2006 |
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Researchers at Purdue University have created a simulation that uses scientific principles to study in detail what likely happened when a commercial airliner crashed into the World Trade Center's North Tower ...
Researchers develop inexpensive, easy process to produce solar panels
Jul 18, 2007 |
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Researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology have developed an inexpensive solar cell that can be painted or printed on flexible plastic sheets.
Interstellar Spaceflight: Is It Possible?
Dec 07, 2005 |
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With current space travel limited to just a few robotic probes visiting nearby planets, how realistic is it to think about reaching the nearest stars? For the short term, not very – especially when we speak ...
Giant garbage patch floating in Pacific
Oct 22, 2007 |
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An enormous island of trash twice the size of Texas is floating in the Pacific Ocean somewhere between San Francisco and Hawaii.
Humans hot, sweaty, natural-born runners
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Apr 16, 2007 |
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Hairless, clawless, and largely weaponless, ancient humans used the unlikely combination of sweatiness and relentlessness to gain the upper hand over their faster, stronger, generally more dangerous animal prey, Harvard Anthropology ...
For a Bigger Hard-drive, Just Add Water
May 11, 2006 |
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Imagine having computer memory so dense that a cubic centimeter contains 12.8 million gigabytes of information. Imagine an iPod playing music for 100 millennia without repeating a single song or a USB thumb-drive with room ...
