Designing a test of neutrinos as dark matter candidates
Jan 11, 2008 |
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One of the biggest mysteries of the universe deals with questions of dark matter. There are several experiments and models being designed all over the world to try and determine what would make good dark matter candidates. ...
Physicists report novel interaction between superconductivity and magnetism
Jan 11, 2008 |
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An international collaboration of researchers led by Morten Ring Eskildsen, an assistant professor of physics at the University of Notre Dame, has discovered an altogether new way in which superconducting electrons can interact ...
NASA Satellites Capture Start of New Solar Cycle
Space & Earth science / Astronomy
Jan 11, 2008 |
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NASA scientists say a new solar cycle is beginning, and this could have important repercussions for space-based technology ranging from GPS navigation to weather satellites.
Massive Gas Cloud Speeding Toward Collision With Milky Way
Space & Earth science / Astronomy
Jan 11, 2008 |
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A giant cloud of hydrogen gas is speeding toward a collision with our Milky Way Galaxy, and when it hits -- in less than 40 million years -- it may set off a spectacular burst of stellar fireworks.
Magnetic Alloy With Swiss Cheese Structure Morphs Shape
Jan 11, 2008 |
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Researchers have turned a stubborn alloy into a shape-shifting foam by just giving it a little breathing room.
Super-computer could throw light on 'mysterious' dark energy
Jan 11, 2008 |
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Cosmologists have run a series of huge computer simulations of the Universe that could ultimately help solve the mystery of dark energy.
Culture influences brain function
Medicine & Health / Psychology
Jan 11, 2008 |
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People from different cultures use their brains differently to solve the same visual perceptual tasks, MIT researchers and colleagues report in the first brain imaging study of its kind.
Researchers create mathematical model of fruit fly eyes
Jan 11, 2008 |
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Many researchers have tried to create a mathematical model of how cells pack together to form tissue, but most models have many different complicated factors, and no model is universal.
High degree of resistance to antibiotics in Arctic birds
Jan 11, 2008 |
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In the latest issue of the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, Swedish researchers report that birds captured in the hyperboreal tundra, in connection with the tundra expedition “Beringia 2005,” were carriers of antibi ...
La Niña: 'Little Girl' Makes Big Impression
Space & Earth science / Earth Sciences
Jan 11, 2008 |
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Cool, wet conditions in the Northwest, frigid weather on the Plains, and record dry conditions in the Southeast, all signs that La Niña is in full swing. With winter gearing up, a moderate La Niña is hitting ...
