News tagged with sample
Children who are spanked have lower IQs, new research finds
Sep 25, 2009 |
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Children who are spanked have lower IQs worldwide, including in the United States, according to new groundbreaking research by University of New Hampshire professor Murray Straus. The research results will ...
Phoenix Rasps Frozen Layer, Collects Sample
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 16, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A powered rasp on the back of the robotic arm scoop of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander successfully drilled into the frozen soil and loosened material that was collected in the lander's scoop.
NASA's Phoenix Lander Delivers Soil-Chemistry Sample
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 08, 2008 |
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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander used its Robotic Arm to deliver a second sample of soil for analysis by the spacecraft's wet chemistry laboratory, data received from Phoenix on Sunday night confirmed.
Researchers Skeptical of Claims by Online Dating Sites
Jun 15, 2009 |
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With an estimated 40 percent of the 100 million U.S. singles trying online dating, researchers at the University of Arkansas caution users that some Web sites’ claims of scientific justification may be “junk science.”
Phoenix Mars Lander Working With Sticky Soil
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 29, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists and engineers on NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission spent the weekend examining how the icy soil on Mars interacts with the scoop on the lander's robotic arm, while trying different techniques ...
Mid-Depth Soil Collected for Lab Test On NASA's Mars Lander
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 22, 2008 |
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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has scooped up a soil sample from an intermediate depth between the ground surface and a subsurface icy layer. The sample was delivered to a laboratory oven on the spacecraft.
Africa's rarest monkey had an intriguing sexual past, DNA study confirms
Nov 11, 2009 |
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The most extensive DNA study to-date of Africa's rarest monkey reveals that the species had an intriguing sexual past. Of the last two remaining populations of the recently discovered kipunji, one population ...
Phoenix Revises Method to Deliver Icy Sample
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 28, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's robotic arm will use a revised collection-and-delivery sequence overnight Sunday with the goal of depositing an icy soil sample in the lander's oven.
Scientists discover historic sample of bomb-grade plutonium
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Feb 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Washington state are reporting the surprise discovery of the oldest known sample of reactor-produced bomb-grade plutonium, a historic relic from the infancy of America’s nuclear weapons program. ...
FLASH Imaging Redux: Nano-Cinema is Born
Jul 08, 2008 |
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Flash imaging of nanoscale objects undergoing ultrafast changes is now a technical possibility, according to a recent paper published in the June 22 edition of Nature Photonics. The results are a direct precur ...
Protect your vote -- avoid election machine errors
Nov 03, 2008 |
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Of all the conceivable problems that could lead to a miscount Election Day, there's one possibility that voters can do something about – avoid making election machine-related errors, says a University of Maryland ...
A card-swipe for medical tests: Diagnostic device uses same principle as hard disks, MP3 players
Oct 30, 2008 |
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University of Utah scientists successfully created a sensitive prototype device that could test for dozens or even hundreds of diseases simultaneously by acting like a credit card-swipe machine to scan a card ...
Mars Sample Return: The next step in exploring the Red Planet
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 02, 2008 |
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ESA and the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) will be co-hosting, in cooperation with NASA and the International Mars Exploration Working Group (IMEWG), an International Conference on 9 and 10 July ...
Quick test for prostate cancer
May 19, 2009 |
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A new 3-minute test could help in diagnosing prostate cancer, the most common cancer in men in the UK, according to scientists.
Study indicates people by nature are universally optimistic
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 24, 2009 |
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Despite calamities from economic recessions, wars and famine to a flu epidemic afflicting the Earth, a new study from the University of Kansas and Gallup indicates that humans are by nature optimistic.
