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Officials break ground for the world's most advanced neutrino experiment
May 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Construction begins this month on a cutting-edge physics laboratory in northern Minnesota, supported by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Congressman James Oberstar of Minnesota ...
Astronomers catch binary star explosion inside nebula
Nov 19, 2008 |
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The explosion of a binary star inside a planetary nebula has been captured by a team led by UCL (University College London) researchers – an event that has not been witnessed for more than 100 years. The study, published ...
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Rapid supernova could be new class of exploding star
Nov 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An unusual supernova rediscovered in seven-year-old data may be the first example of a new type of exploding star, possibly from a binary star system where helium flows from one white dwarf ...
Organic weed control options for highbush blueberry
Nov 04, 2009 |
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Research scientists at Nova Scotia Agricultural College have been working steadily to find effective organic methods to control weeds in cultivated blueberry crops. One resulting study, published in a recent ...
Hundreds of hospital patients line up for tests after possible infection
Oct 08, 2009 |
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Some of the 1,851 patients who had tests administered by a Broward General Medical Center nurse alleged to have knowingly violated infection control protocols will know within two weeks if they have contracted hepatitis or ...
Computer model shows changes in brain mechanisms for cocaine addicts
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 22, 2009 |
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About 2 million Americans currently use cocaine for its temporary side-effects of euphoria, which have contributed to making it one of the most dangerous and addictive drugs in the country. Cocaine addiction, ...
CU-Boulder Unmanned Aircraft Buzz Over Gigantic Holes in Antarctic Sea Ice
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 10, 2009 |
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A series of record-setting unmanned research flights are providing University of Colorado at Boulder researchers with some of the first 3-D observations of gaping holes in the Antarctic sea ice known as polynyas ...
In tiny 'Tuk,' they man climate's front line
Sep 07, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Caught between rising seas and land melting beneath their mukluk-shod feet, the villagers of Tuktoyaktuk are doing what anyone would do on this windy Arctic coastline. They're building windmills.
Atoms don't dance the 'Bose Nova'
Sep 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Hanns-Christoph Naegerl's research group at the Institute for Experimental Physics, Austria, has investigated how ultracold quantum gases behave in lower spatial dimensions. They successfully ...
NASA sees some strong thunderstorms in Bill's center as he drenches eastern Canada
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 24, 2009 |
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Bill is still holding onto hurricane status near Nova Scotia, and will be bringing a lot of rain and heavy surf to Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland. Today, Sunday, August 23, NASA infrared ...
NASA watches as Hurricane Bill sweeps over Bermuda
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Aug 21, 2009 |
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Hurricane Bill was raining on Bermuda on Friday, August 21, 2009, and NASA satellites were providing forecasters with information about Bill's rainfall, clouds and winds.
Are you the next Usain Bolt? The answer could be in your saliva
Aug 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Newcastle University are launching a ground-breaking study to find out why some of us can run faster than others - despite doing the same amount of training.
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