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Scientists determine Viking trade routes by the metal in their swords
Jan 05, 2009 |
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Scientists at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in Teddington have worked with the Wallace Collection to analyse the contents of Viking swords - and the results shed new light on trade routes in the middle ...
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The Medical Minute: There's no trick to a safe Halloween
Oct 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Halloween is supposed to be a spooky night, but parents don’t have to be scared about their kids’ safety if they follow some simple safety tips from Safe Kids Dauphin County, led by the Penn State Hershey ...
Hunting for rhythm's DNA: Computational geometry unlocks a musical phylogeny
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Does Bo Diddley rule the world? Though he died last year, the iconic singer and guitarist of American blues and rock still rules the rhythms of the world, says computer scientist Godfried ...
Researchers identify promising therapeutic target for central nervous system injuries
Oct 15, 2009 |
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Scars can serve as double-edged swords in spinal cord injuries—saving a victim's life, but sealing his or her fate as a paraplegic or quadriplegic. The scar forms a wall around the wound, preventing the injury from spreading, ...
Sony latest to demo videogame motion-sensing controller
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Jun 03, 2009 |
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Sony on Tuesday demonstrated a prototype motion-sensing videogame controller, as the maker of PlayStation consoles joined rivals in a trend away from playing with complicated buttons and joysticks.
Upside-down world: DNA protecting protein helps cancer drug to kill cells
Apr 28, 2009 |
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Some DNA repair enzymes can become double-edged swords - If they work too slowly, they can block necessary cell maintenance and contribute to cell death. This could explain the somewhat mysterious success of the widely used ...
Gene Tells Soldier Ants to Beat Swords into Ploughshares
Mar 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- While science has yet to discover what makes that little ol' ant think he'll move that rubber tree plant, researchers at the University of Toronto Mississauga have identified an enzyme in ...
The Medical Minute: There's no trick to a safe Halloween
Oct 22, 2008 |
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Halloween is supposed to be a spooky night, but parents don’t have to be scared about their kids’ safety if they follow some simple safety tips from Safe Kids Dauphin County, led by Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital, ...
Photon-transistors for the supercomputers of the future
Aug 26, 2007 |
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Scientist from the Niels Bohr Institute at University of Copenhagen and from Harvard University have worked out a new theory which describe how the necessary transistors for the quantum computers of the future ...
No escape from the bullies
May 31, 2007 |
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It happens in school, at work, physically, verbally, even by email and text — now researchers at The University of Nottingham say there’s no escape in the virtual world.
Archeologists find late 1500s shipwreck
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May 21, 2007 |
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Archeologists in Britain have revealed the findings from a shipwrecked Tudor warship believed to have sunk around the year 1592.
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