 Exploding asteroid theory strengthened by new evidence located in Ohio, Indiana July 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 49 vote(s)
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Geological evidence found in Ohio and Indiana in recent weeks is strengthening the case to attribute what happened 12,900 years ago in North America -- when the end of the last Ice Age unexpectedly turned ... | |
Statins have unexpected effect on pool of powerful brain cells July 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 57 vote(s)
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Cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins have a profound effect on an elite group of cells important to brain health as we age, scientists at the University of Rochester Medical Center have found. The new findings shed ... | |
 Maverick scientists probe Siberian forest mystery July 01, 2008 | User rating: 3 / 5 after 30 vote(s)
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Was it a gigantic meteorite? A tremendous bolt of lightning? Perhaps the crash of a UFO the size of Tokyo? No one is certain of the answer to one of the 20th century's greatest scientific mysteries -- the ... | |
 When using gestures, rules of grammar remain the same June 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 35 vote(s)
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The mind apparently has a consistent way of ordering an event that defies the order in which subjects, verbs, and objects typically appear in languages, according to research at the University of Chicago. | |
Hot future shock: Heat wave temperatures to soar July 02, 2008 | User rating: 2.9 / 5 after 47 vote(s)
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(AP) -- During the European heat wave of 2003 that killed tens of thousands, the temperature in parts of France hit 104 degrees. Nearly 15,000 people died in that country alone. During the Chicago heat wave of 1995, the ... | |
Tufts to develop morphing 'chemical robots' June 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Tufts University has received federal funding to develop chemical robots that will be able to squeeze into spaces as tiny as 1 centimeter, then morph into something 10 times larger, and ultimately biodegrade. The "chembots" ... | |
 Phoenix Scrapes 'Almost Perfect' Icy Soil for Analysis July 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander enlarged the "Snow White" trench and scraped up little piles of icy soil on Saturday, June 28, the 33rd Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Scientists say that the scrapings are ... | |
 First images of solar system's invisible frontier July 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 30 vote(s)
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NASA's sun-focused STEREO spacecraft unexpectedly detected particles from the edge of the solar system last year, allowing University of California, Berkeley, scientists to map for the first time the energized ... | |
 Atomic Tug of War July 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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A new form of energy-transfer, reported today in Nature (3 July 2008) may have implications for the study of reactions going on in the atmosphere, and even for those occurring in the body. | |
 Rocketing Through Water June 30, 2008 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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Swimmers around the world are breaking records this year like never before, including at this week's U.S. Olympic trials. Some attribute it to extensive training as athletes prepare to compete at this summer's ... | |
 Solution to high energy costs could lie underground July 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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Sandia National Laboratories researcher Georgianne Peek thinks a possible solution to high energy costs lies underground. And it’s not coal or oil. It’s compressed air energy storage (CAES). | |
 Japanese sailor first to cross Pacific in wave-powered boat July 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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Japanese sailor and environmentalist Kenichi Horie has completed a 110-day solo voyage across the Pacific Ocean in a boat propelled by wave power to claim another world first. | |
 'Mind's eye' influences visual perception July 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 35 vote(s)
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Letting your imagination run away with you may actually influence how you see the world. New research from Vanderbilt University has found that mental imagery—what we see with the "mind's eye"—directly impacts ... | |
 New paper offers insights into 'blinking' phenomena July 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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A new paper by a team of researchers led by University of Notre Dame physicist Bolizsár Jankó provides an overview of research into one of the few remaining unsolved problems of quantum mechanics. | |
 Worms do calculus to find meals or avoid unpleasantness July 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Thanks to salt and hot chili peppers, researchers have found a calculus-computing center that tells a roundworm to go forward toward dinner or turn to broaden the search. It's a computational mechanism, they ... | |
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