 Strange star stumps astronomers 12 hours ago | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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An obese oddball of a star has left astronomers wondering how it could have formed. Dr David Champion and his colleagues at CSIRO’s Australia Telescope National Facility publish their findings about the star ... | |
 Giant pythons invade southeastern Florida: study 14 hours ago | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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Giant pythons capable of swallowing a dog and even an alligator are rapidly making south Florida their home, potentially threatening other southeastern states, a study said. | |
A Critique of Shortsighted Anthropic Principles 8 hours ago | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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Many people marvel that we live in a universe that seems to be precisely tailored to suit the development of intelligent life. The observation is the basis for some forms of "Anthropic Principles" that strive to explain why ... | |
 How small molecule can take apart Alzheimer's disease protein fibers 11 hours ago | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have shown, in unprecedented detail, how a small molecule is able to selectively take apart abnormally folded protein fibers connected to ... | |
 A baseball cap that reads your mind 12 hours ago | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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It looks like an ordinary baseball cap. But when you put it on, the cap detects and analyzes the electroencephalogram (EEG) signals from your brain. It can even tell you if you’re getting too sleepy when driving ... | |
HIV infection stems from few viruses 12 hours ago | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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A new study reveals the genetic identity of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the version responsible for sexual transmission, in unprecedented detail. | |
 How Did That Chain Letter Get To My Inbox? 8 hours ago | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Everyone who has an e-mail account has probably received a forwarded chain letter promising good luck if the message is forwarded on to others--or terrible misfortune if it isn't. The sheer volume of forwarded ... | |
Weather, waves and wireless: Super strength signalling 13 hours ago | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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A new study from the University of Leicester has discovered a particular window of time when mobile signals and radio waves are ‘super strength’ – allowing them to be clearer and travel greater distances, potentially interfering ... | |
Huge project to restore Everglades to be suspended 15 hours ago | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Construction on a huge reservoir meant to help restore the Everglades will be put on hold over a lawsuit brought by a group that fears the water could be diverted for other purposes. | |
 Rochester's Omega Laser Receives 50-Fold Power Increase to Become 'Petawatt' Laser 9 hours ago | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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The University of Rochester will mark another important step in the effort toward attaining sustainable fusion, the ultimate source of clean energy, Friday, May 16. | |
Thirty-Meter Telescope Focuses on Two Candidate Sites 9 hours ago | User rating: 4 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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After completing a worldwide survey unprecedented in rigor and detail of astronomical sites for the Thirty-Meter Telescope (TMT), the TMT Observatory Corporation board of directors has selected two outstanding sites, one ... | |
Inject rational argument into embryo debate, says expert 13 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
In the week that the UK parliament debates controversial amendments to the 1990 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act, Professor John Burn asks at what point a cell becomes a human. | |
 Entrepreneurs value 'ideas' over weatlh, study finds 9 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
A study at the University of Liverpool has revealed that entrepreneurs are driven to start companies by their passion for ideas rather than the pursuit of wealth. | |
 '$100 laptop' nonprofit now teamed with Microsoft 15 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(AP) -- The One Laptop Per Child project is about to find out whether Microsoft Corp., a rival the nonprofit group once derided, is the solution to its problems in spreading inexpensive portable computers ... | |
Scientists identified earthquake faults in Sichuan, China 9 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Only last summer research published by earth scientists in the international journal Tectonics concluded that geological faults in the Sichuan Basin, China "are sufficiently long to sustain a strong ground-shaking ... | |
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