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Putting a virtual doctor in the ambulance
Jul 29, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new ambulance communications system will enable doctors to diagnose and begin treating critically ill patients before they reach hospital.
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Cosmologist Paul Davies explores notion of 'alien' life on Earth
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 15, 2009 |
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Astrobiologists have often pondered "life as we do not know it" in the context of extraterrestrial life, says Paul Davies, an internationally acclaimed theoretical physicist and cosmologist at Arizona State University. "But," ...
Monitoring against another Pompeii
Aug 04, 2008 |
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A wimax-based connection to the internet will enable real-time monitoring of potentially dangerous active volcanoes.
Spotting tomorrow's forest fires
Aug 01, 2008 |
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A wimax-based connection to the internet enables fire-monitoring efforts in remote and mountainous regions.
Geeks may be chic, but negative nerd stereotype still exists, professor says
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 03, 2009 |
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Despite the increased popularity of geek culture - movies based on comic books, videogames, virtual worlds - and the ubiquity of computers, the geek's close cousin, the nerd, still suffers from a negative ...
Lost World Found in Papua New Guinea Volcano
Sep 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A BBC expedition exploring inside the crater of an extinct volcano in Papua New Guinea (PNG) has discovered a lost world of dozens of weird new species and rare animals, including new frogs, ...
The search for unusual alien life on Earth and life that can survive on Mars
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 21, 2009 |
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Questions such as "How to search for weird alien life?" and "Would Earth microbes survive if delivered to the surface of Mars?" are addressed in articles that are part of the collection of reports presented ...
Spooky Hurricane Science
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 15, 2008 |
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There's a special room at the Marshall Space Flight Center. Researchers call it the "Anechoic Chamber" and they love to test their high-tech instruments there. Normal people think it's just plain spooky. "In ...
Life elsewhere in Solar System could be different from life as we know it
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 06, 2007 |
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The search for life elsewhere in the solar system and beyond should include efforts to detect what scientists sometimes refer to as "weird" life -- that is, life with an alternative biochemistry to that of life on Earth -- ...
The missing link in the evolution of magnetic cataclysmic stars?
Sep 14, 2007 |
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An international team of astronomers might have discovered the missing link in the evolution of the so-called magnetic cataclysmic variable stars. They determined the spin and orbital periods of the binary star Paloma. They ...
'Trust me, I'm a physicist' – the weird world of quantum entanglement
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Feb 03, 2006 |
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Declaring that it is always useful to start a lecture with a literary quote, Professor Sir Peter Knight began his on quantum entanglement with the statement: "Let's just say we want to avoid any Imperial entanglements."
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