 Student Innovation Could Improve Data Storage, Magnetic Sensors May 14, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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Paul Morrow has come a long way from his days as an elementary school student, pulling apart his mother’s cassette player. The talented young physicist has developed two innovations that could vastly improve ... | |
 NASA Phoenix Mission Ready For Mars Landing May 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 26 vote(s)
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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is preparing to end its long journey and begin a three-month mission to taste and sniff fistfuls of Martian soil and buried ice. The lander is scheduled to touch down on the Red ... | |
Want to lose weight? Study suggests a liquid lunch May 15, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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A "liquid lunch" could no longer mean a few pints down the pub, but instead a healthy way to lose weight, according to a study presented Thursday by scientists from food giant Unilever. | |
Precise Alignment to Quantum Dots May 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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“Precise lithographic alignment to site-controlled quantum dots is of major importance for numerous nano-photonic, nano-electronic and nano-spintronic devices,” Sven Höfling tells PhysOrg.com. | |
 Japanese swimsuit makers race Speedo May 14, 2008 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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A Japanese fabric maker says it has the secret to make the world's fastest-ever swimsuit as the country races against time to catch Speedo's high-tech, record-breaking LZR Racer suit. | |
Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope blasts off May 13, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 26 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. launched its WorldWide Telescope late Monday, bringing the free Web-based program for zooming around the universe to a broad audience. | |
 Designing bug perception into robots May 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Insects have provided the inspiration for a team of European researchers seeking to improve the functionality of robots and robotic tools.
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 Samsung Develops World’s First 'Blue Phase' Technology to Achieve 240 Hz Driving Speed for High-Speed Video May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Samsung Electronics announced today that it has developed the world’s first “Blue Phase” LCD panel – which will offer more natural moving images with an unprecedented image-driving speed of 240 Hertz. Samsung ... | |
 A crash course in true political science May 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 26 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Daniel Suson has a doctorate in astrophysics and has worked on the superconducting super collider and a forthcoming NASA probe. Now he's heading back to school to take on an even trickier task - getting ... | |
Genetically modified human embryo stirs criticism May 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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(AP) -- News that scientists have for the first time genetically altered a human embryo is drawing fire from some watchdog groups that say it's a step toward creating "designer babies." | |
 Shrimps see beyond the rainbow May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 25 vote(s)
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A Swiss marine biologist and an Australian quantum physicist have found that a species of shrimp from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, can see a world invisible to all other animals. | |
 Artificial reef near Miami is cemetery, diving attraction May 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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(AP) -- About 45 feet beneath the ocean's surface lies a cemetery with gates, pathways, plaques and even benches. The Neptune Memorial Reef, which opened last fall, is seen by its creators as a perfect final ... | |
 First measurement of entangled states in nitrogen May 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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When atoms form molecules, they share their outer electrons and this creates a negatively charged cloud. Here, electrons buzz around between the two positively charged nuclei, making it impossible to tell ... | |
 Space Station Tricorder May 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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Any Trekkies out there? Remember the tricorder? Dr. McCoy and Mr. Spock both carried them, and they came in mighty handy exploring "strange new worlds ...where no one has gone before." | |
 Studies confirm greenhouse mechanisms even further into past May 14, 2008 | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 25 vote(s)
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The newest analysis of trace gases trapped in Antarctic ice cores now provide a reasonable view of greenhouse gas concentrations as much as 800,000 years into the past, and are further confirming the link ... | |
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