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NASA Begins Hunt for New Meteor Showers
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Nov 11, 2008 |
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It started out as a normal day. NASA astronomer and meteor expert Bill Cooke woke up, dressed, and went to his office at the Marshall Space Flight Center. Colleagues greeted him as usual, there was no hum ...
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Higher levels of protein hormone associated with lower risk of dementia, Alzheimer's disease
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Persons with higher levels of leptin, a protein hormone produced by fat cells and involved in the regulation of appetite, may have an associated reduced incidence of Alzheimer disease and dementia, according to a study in ...
NASA unveils latest results from lunar mission
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NASA's current mission in orbit around the moon, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has been providing crucial insights about our nearest celestial neighbor since its launch in June. At a scientific ...
Icy moons of Saturn and Jupiter may have conditions needed for life
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists once thought that life could originate only within a solar system's "habitable zone," where a planet would be neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water to exist on its surface. ...
Device connected to tongue designed to help blind perceive images
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An experimental device that uses the tongue instead of the eyes to "see" could be on the market next year, and a blind Fresno, Calif., teen hopes to be among the first to take one home.
Miracle light: Can lasers solve the energy crisis?
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Next year will mark the 50th birthday of the laser, one of the most productive and widely used mega-inventions of the last century. Scientists hope that 2010 also will see the launch of laser technology's greatest challenge: ...
Twitter gets more business friendly
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Twitter is testing a way to let businesses better use the popular microblogging service in what could be a future money-making opportunity.
Micromachined piezoelectric harvester drives fully autonomous wireless sensor
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For the first time, a piezoelectric harvesting device fabricated by MEMS technology generates a record of 85μW electrical power from vibrations. A wafer level packaging method was developed for robustness. ...
NASA Outlines Recent Breakthroughs in Greenhouse Gas Research (w/ Video)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers studying carbon dioxide, a leading greenhouse gas and a key driver of global climate change, now have a new tool at their disposal: daily global measurements of carbon dioxide ...
CERN Colour X-ray Technology Set to Save Lives
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Medical studies are soon to start with the MARS scanner, a revolutionary CT scanner developed by the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. The scanner, which incorporates technology developed at the world's ...
Smaller is better for finger sensitivity
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People who have smaller fingers have a finer sense of touch, according to new research in the Dec. 16 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. This finding explains why women tend to have better tactile acuity than men, becaus ...
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