 The 2008 Perseid Meteor Shower July 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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Mark your calendar: The 2008 Perseid meteor shower peaks on August 12th and it should be a good show. | |
Artificial Lotus Effect: Carbon nanotubes with nanoscopic paraffin coating form superhydrophobic, self-cleaning surfaces July 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Never wash your car again? Never clean your windows? These may well become reality if it becomes possible to produce the right coatings—coatings that imitate the self-cleaning effect of the lotus blossom. | |
Closing the hydrogen economic loop July 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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The inventor of the nickel metal hydride (NiMH) technology used for building batteries for countless portable electronic gadgets and now hybrid gas-electric cars believes the hydrogen economy is already upon us. | |
The Quiet Explosion: Object intermediate between normal supernovae and gamma-ray bursts found July 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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A European-led team of astronomers are providing hints that a recent supernova may not be as normal as initially thought. Instead, the star that exploded is now understood to have collapsed into a black hole, producing a ... | |
 Unknown insects found in 110-million-year-old amber in Spain July 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 25 vote(s)
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The remains of several unknown insect species which became extinct long before dinosaurs stopped roaming the earth have been discovered in pieces of 110-million-year-old amber found in Spain, researchers said ... | |
Biology enters 'The Matrix' through new computer language July 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Ever since the human genome was sequenced less than 10 years ago, researchers have been able to access a dizzying plethora of genomic information with a simple click of a mouse. This digitizing of genomic data—and its public ... | |
Exotic materials using neptunium, plutonium provide insight into superconductivity July 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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Physicists at Rutgers and Columbia universities have gained new insight into the origins of superconductivity – a property of metals where electrical resistance vanishes – by studying exotic chemical compounds that contain ... | |
 Physicists shed light on key superconductivity riddle July 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 39 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT physicists believe they have identified a mysterious state of matter that has been linked to the phenomenon of high-temperature superconductivity. | |
Material may help autos turn heat into electricity July 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 36 vote(s)
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Researchers have invented a new material that will make cars even more efficient, by converting heat wasted through engine exhaust into electricity. In the current issue of the journal Science, they describe a material ... | |
 Arctic 'holds 90bln barrels of oil, mostly offshore' July 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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Within the Arctic circle there are 90 billion barrels of oil and vast quantities of natural gas waiting to be tapped, most of it offshore, the government-run US Geological Survey said. | |
Researchers disprove long-standing belief about HIV treatment 23 hours ago | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center have disproved a long-standing clinical belief that the hepatitis C virus slows or stunts the immune system's ability to restore itself after HIV patients are treated ... | |
 'Impressionist' Spacecraft to View Solar System's Invisible Frontier 14 hours ago | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- At the edge of our solar system in December 2004, the Voyager 1 spacecraft encountered something never before experienced during its then 26-year cruise through the solar system — an invisible ... | |
 Unique fossil discovery shows Antarctic was once much warmer July 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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A new fossil discovery- the first of its kind from the whole of the Antarctic continent- provides scientists with new evidence to support the theory that the polar region was once much warmer. | |
Nanoparticles Detect Telomerase Activity July 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Telomerase, an enzyme that prevents chromosomes from shortening when they divide, is widely suspected of playing a key role in making cancer cells immortal. Though researchers have developed a variety of methods for measuring ... | |
 Study suggests human visual system could make powerful computer July 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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Since the idea of using DNA to create faster, smaller, and more powerful computers originated in 1994, scientists have been scrambling to develop successful ways to use genetic code for computation. Now, new ... | |
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