News tagged with objects movement
Physicists Find that Size Matters When Initiating an Object's Movement Through Grains
Sep 26, 2008 |
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A team of Penn State physicists has discovered that the size of grains, such as sand, above a buried object is important in determining the force required to begin raising the object. No one, until now, has ...
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Better-than-new LIDAR provides 24/7 atmospheric aerosol data
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers from eight institutions led by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has solved a software and hardware problem that had perplexed scientists studying atmospheric aerosols ...
Brains versus brawn: Study finds there's more to the Noisy Miner than just being a backyard bully
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Some consider the Noisy Miner bird a badly-behaved backyard bully - an avian aggressor that moves into the neighbourhood and quickly takes over.
Don't Blame Cows for Climate Change
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Despite oft-repeated claims by sources ranging from the United Nations to music star Paul McCartney, it is simply not true that consuming less meat and dairy products will help stop climate ...
Nanomedicine: ending 'hit and miss' design
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
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(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the promises of nanomedicine is the design of tiny particles that can home in on diseased cells and get inside them. Nanoparticles can carry drugs into cells and tag cells for MRI and other diagnostic ...
New imaging technique reveals different heart motions by age, gender
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Using a new noninvasive imaging technique, scientists said they have discovered important, fundamental differences in heart motion by age and gender.
RIT astronomer mines Spitzer Space Telescope data for massive starbursts
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Understanding the evolution of galaxies is one of the biggest questions confronting astronomers today. Looking at distant astronomical objects gives scientists important clues to the origins of the Milky Way Galaxy and other ...
The impact of the diffusion of maize to the Southwestern United States
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
15 hours ago |
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An international group of anthropologists offers a new theory about the diffusion of maize to the Southwestern United States and the impact it had.
Gene therapy and stem cells save limb
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Blood vessel blockage, a common condition in old age or diabetes, leads to low blood flow and results in low oxygen, which can kill cells and tissues. Such blockages can require amputation resulting in loss of limbs. Now, ...
Merkel cells revealed as secret behind sensation of light touch
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Scientists have proved experimentally what has been suspected since the discovery of Merkel cells in the skin over a century ago: the sense of light touch that is critical for hand dexterity would not be possible without ...
Turning metal black more than just a novelty
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Rochester optics professor Chunlei Guo made headlines in the past couple of years when he changed the color of everyday metals by scouring their surfaces with precise, high-intensity laser bursts.
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