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A New View Of Gravity
Seeded on Thu Sep 16, 2010 10:57 PM EDT (Science News)
Entropy and information may be crucial concepts for explaining roots of familiar force
ExxonMobil Bets $600 Million on Algae
Seeded on Tue Jul 14, 2009 4:15 PM EDT (Science News, Articles and Information | Scientific American)
Oil giant Exxon Mobil Corp. is making a major jump into renewable energy with a $600 million investment in algae-based biofuels.
One man's quest to honor America's Saturn V rocket
Seeded on Mon Apr 20, 2009 8:43 PM EDT (RocketryPlanet.com)
The story of the biggest scale model rocket ever built On April 25, 2009, history will be made. At Higgs Farm in Price, Maryland, Steve Eves will enter the history books as the person who flew the largest model rocket in history.
7 Civilian Uses for Nuclear Bombs
Seeded on Sun Apr 12, 2009 12:55 AM EDT (Wired News)
You might think of nuclear weapons as just the most fearsome weapon ever invented by humans, but that would be seriously underplaying their versatility.
Is dark energy getting weaker?
Seeded on Thu Apr 9, 2009 10:06 PM EDT (New Scientist.com)
AFTER billions of years of runaway expansion, is the universe starting to slow down? A new analysis of nearby supernovae suggests space might not be expanding as quickly as it once was, a tantalising hint that the source of dark energy may be more exotic than we thought.
Women Smell Better Than Men
Seeded on Thu Apr 9, 2009 1:32 AM EDT (Sciam)
A woman friend of mine recently commented about her guy: "He's such a boy. His towels are stinky. And he doesn't seem to notice!" Well, maybe he can't smell the stinkyness.
Quantum mathematics could improve web searches
Seeded on Sun Apr 5, 2009 1:41 PM EDT (The New Scientist)
A MATHEMATICAL technique for studying disorder in quantum systems could improve internet keyword searches. It is able to spot significant patterns in large data sets such as web pages and text documents, and may even be adaptable to genome analysis
Bacterium eats electricity, farts biogas
Seeded on Sun Apr 5, 2009 1:04 PM EDT (The New Scientist)
Bacteria that can convert electricity into methane could help solve one of the biggest problems with renewable energy – its unreliability compared to the steady output of polluting fossil-fuel power stations.
Media distortion damages both science and journalism
Seeded on Fri Apr 3, 2009 11:58 PM EDT (New Scientist.com)
WHEN media reports state that scientist X of Y university has discovered that A is linked to B, we ought to be able to trust them. Sadly, as many researchers know, we can't.
Robot scientist makes discoveries with no human help
Seeded on Thu Apr 2, 2009 8:45 PM EDT (New Scientist.com)
A robot scientist that can generate its own hypotheses and run experiments to test them has made its first real scientific discoveries.
Fears over 'designer' babies leave children suffering
Seeded on Sat Mar 21, 2009 10:16 PM EDT (New Scientist)
MADELINE Kara Neumann, age 11, died of diabetes because her parents prayed rather than taking her to doctors. Caleb Moorhead, age 6 months, died after his deeply religious vegan parents refused a simple vitamin injection to cure his malnutrition.
DARPA orders hypersonic Nazi Doodlebug engine
Seeded on Fri Mar 20, 2009 11:13 PM EDT (The Register (UK))
Rebellious Pentagon boffins, whose plans for a really cool hypersonic robot stunt plane were stymied by stick-in-the-mud Washington politicos, have managed to sneak through an alternative project.
MRI Lie Detection to Get First Day in Court
Seeded on Tue Mar 17, 2009 12:26 AM EDT (Wired News)
Defense attorneys are for the first time submitting a next-generation lie-detection test as evidence in court.
Darwin on a Godless Creation: "It's like confessing to a murder"
Seeded on Thu Feb 19, 2009 6:47 AM EST (Sciam)
200 years after the birth of Charles Darwin, his theory of evolution still clashes with the creationist beliefs of some organized religions. For him personally, it meant the end of his belief in creation by God
NVIDIA Tesla Makes Personal SuperComputing A Reality
Seeded on Tue Nov 18, 2008 2:45 PM EST (NVIDIA.com)
Today, scientific research is carried out on supercomputing clusters, a shared resource that consumes hundreds of kilowatts of power and costs millions of dollars to build and maintain.
Out of this World Pictures: First Direct Photos of Exoplanets
Seeded on Thu Nov 13, 2008 4:59 PM EST (Sciam)
Two groups of researchers searching for extrasolar planets—planets orbiting stars other than our own sun—laid claim today to an astronomy milestone: photographing extrasolar planets directly, rather than inferring their presence through effects on their parent stars.
Smart DNA: Programming the Molecule of Life for Work and Play
Seeded on Mon Nov 10, 2008 10:35 AM EST (Sciam)
From a modern chemist's perspective, the structure of DNA in our genes is rather mundane. The molecule has a well-known importance for life, but chemists often see only a uniform double helix with almost no functional behavior on its own.
Has new physics been found at the aging Tevatron?
Seeded on Mon Nov 3, 2008 5:24 PM EST (New Scientist)
While engineers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) race to fix its teething problems and start looking for new particles, its ageing predecessor is refusing go silently into the night.
Ultrafast Lasers Show Snapshot Of Electrons In Action
Seeded on Sun Nov 2, 2008 4:13 PM EST (Science Daily)
In the quest to slow down and ultimately understand chemistry at the level of atoms and electrons, University of Colorado at Boulder and Canadian scientists have found a new way to peer into a molecule that allows them to see how its electrons rearrange as the molecule changes sh …
New injectable flu drug shows promise
Seeded on Tue Oct 28, 2008 4:32 PM EDT (msnbc.com)
A new, injected influenza drug appears to reduce symptoms as well as rival drugs Tamiflu and Relenza, researchers reported.
NASA aims to keep moon's skies junk-free
Seeded on Tue Oct 28, 2008 12:25 PM EDT (msnbc.com)
There are well over 100,000 objects in Earth orbit, the vast majority being non-functioning junk in the form of satellites and debris from rocket launches.
Sticky tape generates X-rays
Seeded on Fri Oct 24, 2008 3:01 AM EDT (News at Nature)
Christmas could bring with it a new hazard as you wrap your gifts – X-ray-emitting sticky tape.
No ice rinks on the Moon after all
Seeded on Thu Oct 23, 2008 9:25 PM EDT (New Scientist)
Hopes for large lakes of frozen water at the Moon's poles have taken another bashing, with new images of a prominent crater revealing dull lunar dust instead of shiny pools of ice.
Better Killing through Chemistry:
Seeded on Thu Oct 16, 2008 8:36 PM EDT (Sciam)
Buying chemical weapons material through the mail is quick and easy.I was reading up on nuclear proliferation when our editorial assistant came by my office. "You've got a package downstairs," he said.
One-Organism Ecosystem Discovered in African Gold Mine
Seeded on Thu Oct 9, 2008 6:44 PM EDT (Wired News)
In the hot, dark water of a South African mine, scientists have found the world's loneliest species.
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