New Nanowire-Based Memory Could Beef Up Information Storage
Jul 02, 2008 |
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Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have created a type of nanowire-based information storage device that is capable of storing three bit values rather than the usual two—that is, "0," "1," and ...
Some fundamental interactions of matter found to be fundamentally different than thought
Jul 02, 2008 |
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Collisions have consequences. Everyone knows that. Whether it's between trains, planes, automobiles or atoms, there are always repercussions. But while macroscale collisions may have the most obvious effects - mangled steel, ...
First images of solar system's invisible frontier
Space & Earth science / Space Exploration
Jul 02, 2008 |
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NASA's sun-focused STEREO spacecraft unexpectedly detected particles from the edge of the solar system last year, allowing University of California, Berkeley, scientists to map for the first time the energized ...
Atomic Tug of War
Jul 02, 2008 |
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A new form of energy-transfer, reported today in Nature (3 July 2008) may have implications for the study of reactions going on in the atmosphere, and even for those occurring in the body.
Get smart about what you eat and you might actually improve your intelligence
Jul 02, 2008 |
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New research findings published online in The FASEB Journal provide more evidence that if we get smart about what we eat, our intelligence can improve. According to MIT scientists, dietary nutrients found in a wide range ...
Exploding asteroid theory strengthened by new evidence located in Ohio, Indiana
Space & Earth science / Earth Sciences
Jul 02, 2008 |
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Geological evidence found in Ohio and Indiana in recent weeks is strengthening the case to attribute what happened 12,900 years ago in North America -- when the end of the last Ice Age unexpectedly turned ...
Simple insulation could combat heat, cold and noise
Jul 02, 2008 |
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Around the world, an estimated one billion people--mostly in rural villages and the shanty towns surrounding developing-world cities--live in houses whose roofs are nothing more than thin sheets of corrugated ...
Worms do calculus to find meals or avoid unpleasantness
Jul 02, 2008 |
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Thanks to salt and hot chili peppers, researchers have found a calculus-computing center that tells a roundworm to go forward toward dinner or turn to broaden the search. It's a computational mechanism, they ...
Planets Align for the 4th of July
Space & Earth science / Space Exploration
Jul 02, 2008 |
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News Flash: On 4th of July weekend, NASA forecasts lights in the sky. No, not those lights. Look beyond the fireworks. Almost halfway up the western sky, just above the twilight glow of sunset, a trio of worlds ...
The body's own 'marijuana' is good for the skin
Jul 02, 2008 |
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Scientists from Hungary, Germany and the U.K. have discovered that our own body not only makes chemical compounds similar to the active ingredient in marijuana (THC), but these play an important part in maintaining healthy ...
