New-School 'Aether' May Shed Light on Neutron Stars
Oct 10, 2007 |
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Among scientists, it is widely believed that there is no such thing as an aether – a medium pervading all space that allows light waves to propagate, similar to how sound needs air or water – but a part of its spirit may ...
How shyness and other normal human traits became sickness
Medicine & Health / Psychology
Oct 10, 2007 |
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What's wrong with being shy, and just when and how did bashfulness and other ordinary human behaviors in children and adults become psychiatric disorders treatable with powerful, potentially dangerous drugs, asks a Northwestern ...
Fiber optic breakthrough in display sign technology
Oct 10, 2007 |
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Liquid Fiber Displays, a company spun out of research conducted in the Faculty of Engineering at McMaster University, has combined a uniquely woven optical fiber array with current LCD (liquid crystal display) and LED (light-emitting ...
New findings solve human origins mystery
Oct 10, 2007 |
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An extraordinary advance in human origins research reveals evidence of the emergence of the upright human body plan over 15 million years earlier than most experts have believed. More dramatically, the study confirms preliminary ...
Mathematicians predict the future of the past tense
Oct 10, 2007 |
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Verbs evolve and homogenize at a rate inversely proportional to their prevalence in the English language, according to a formula developed by Harvard University mathematicians who've invoked evolutionary principles to study ...
Landmark modeling study reveals how ferroelectric computer memory works
Oct 10, 2007 |
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A collaboration of University of Pennsylvania chemists and engineers has performed multi-scale modeling of ferroelectric domain walls and provided a new theory of behavior for domain-wall motion, the “sliding ...
Storing data on atomic roundabouts
Oct 10, 2007 |
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There are right-handed and left-handed yoghurts, right-handed and left-handed snail shells, and right-handed and (occasionally) left-handed screws. Scientists at the University of Bonn have now demonstrated the existence ...
Cassini Pinpoints Hot Sources of Jets on Enceladus
Space & Earth science / Space Exploration
Oct 10, 2007 |
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A recent analysis of images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft provides conclusive evidence that the jets of fine, icy particles spraying from Saturn's moon Enceladus originate from the hottest spots on the moon's ...
New isotope molecule may add to Venus' greenhouse effect
Space & Earth science / Space Exploration
Oct 10, 2007 |
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Planetary scientists on both sides of the Atlantic have tracked down a rare molecule in the atmospheres of both Mars and Venus. The molecule, an exotic form of carbon dioxide, could affect the way the greenhouse ...
A gene divided reveals the details of natural selection
Oct 10, 2007 |
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In a molecular tour de force, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have provided an exquisitely detailed picture of natural selection as it occurs at the genetic level.
