News tagged with small
Most Black Holes Might Come in Only Small and Large
Aug 20, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Black holes are sometimes huge cosmic beasts, billions of times the mass of our sun, and sometimes petite with just a few times the sun's mass. But do black holes also come in size medium? ...
How Small is Too Small? Researchers Find that Polarization Changes at the Nanoscale
Sep 08, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- How small is too small to be useful? Researchers at North Carolina State University have done nanoscale analysis on ferroelectric thin films – materials that are used in electronic devices from computer ...
Dinosaur whodunit: Solving a 77-million-year-old mystery
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 13, 2008 |
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It has all the hallmarks of a Cretaceous melodrama. A dinosaur sits on her nest of a dozen eggs on a sandy river beach. Water levels rise, and the mother is faced with a dilemma: Stay or abandon her unhatched offspring to ...
Mini Dinosaurs Prowled North America (w/Video)
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 16, 2009 |
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Massive predators like Albertosaurus and Tyrannosaurus rex may have been at the top of the food chain, but they were not the only meat-eating dinosaurs to roam North America, according to Canadian researchers w ...
Hubble provides new evidence for dark matter around small galaxies
Mar 12, 2009 |
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Peering into the tumultuous heart of the nearby Perseus galaxy cluster, Hubble discovered a large population of small galaxies that have remained intact while larger galaxies around them are being ripped apart ...
Researchers show small robots can prepare lunar surface for NASA outpost
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Small robots the size of riding mowers could prepare a safe landing site for NASA's Moon outpost, according to a NASA-sponsored study prepared by Astrobotic Technology Inc. with technical ...
Warming in Yosemite National Park sends small mammals packing to higher, cooler elevations
Oct 09, 2008 |
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Global warming is causing major shifts in the range of small mammals in Yosemite National Park, one of the nation's treasures that was set aside as a public trust 144 years ago, according to a new study by University of California, ...
Chips with everything
Technology / Computer Sciences
Feb 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- While the technology to make computer chips smaller and cheaper progresses each year, the fundamental structure of the chip - the computer architecture - has remained the same for decades. ...
Green Comet Approaches Earth
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 05, 2009 |
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In 1996, a 7-year-old boy in China bent over the eyepiece of a small telescope and saw something that would change his life--a comet of flamboyant beauty, bright and puffy with an active tail. At first he ...
Surgical removal of small colon polyps is costly and unnecessary
Nov 03, 2008 |
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Polypectomy (the surgical removal of polyps by colonoscopy) of small polyps found during CT colonography is costly and unnecessary according to a study performed at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public ...
Y chromosome study sheds light on Athapaskan migration to southwest US
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 15, 2008 |
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A large-scale genetic study of native North Americans offers new insights into the migration of a small group of Athapaskan natives from their subarctic home in northwest North America to the southwestern ...
Both theories about human cellular aging supported by new research
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Dec 16, 2008 |
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Aging yeast cells accumulate damage over time, but they do so by following a pattern laid down earlier in their life by diet as well as the genes that control metabolism and the dynamics of cell structures such as mitochondria, ...
Hybrids gather dust at AutoNation dealerships
Mar 06, 2009 |
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AutoNation CEO Mike Jackson has a problem: There are way too many Toyota Prius hybrids sitting on his car lots across America.
Cassini Images Ring Arcs Among Saturn's Moons
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 05, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected a faint, partial ring orbiting with one small moon of Saturn, and has confirmed the presence of another partial ring orbiting with a second moon. This ...
Gasoline stations set prices to match a small number of other stations
Jul 31, 2008 |
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For many years, there have been competition concerns regarding how retail gasoline prices are set in the U.S. and Canada. Consumers have complained about the perceived uniformity of retail gas prices and the perception that ...
