Search for life in space getting closer
Scientists in Britain say they are making remarkable advances in the search for life in other solar systems, though results are more than a decade off.
Space Exploration
Jun 7, 2007
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Strengthening nanotube fluorescence
In a way, nanotubes are nature's smallest candles. These tiny tubes are constructed from carbon atoms and they are so small that it takes about 100,000 laid side-by-side to span the width of a single human hair. In the last ...
Nanomaterials
Jun 7, 2007
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Probing Question: Are there upper and lower limits to temperature?
Most people have heard absolute zero described as the lowest possible temperature, but what does that mean? Is it really the coldest cold, or just the lowest temperature that we can measure? Is there a corresponding highest ...
General Physics
Jun 7, 2007
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NASA Updates Shuttle Target Launch Date for Hubble Mission
NASA managers officially are targeting Sept. 10, 2008, for the launch of the fifth and final space shuttle servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. During the 11-day flight, Atlantis' seven astronauts will repair ...
Space Exploration
Jun 7, 2007
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NASA Selects IBM for Next-Generation Supercomputer Applications
On Wednesday, NASA and IBM announced the agency has selected an IBM System p575+ supercomputer for evaluating next-generation technology to meet the agency's future supercomputing requirements. Supercomputers play a critical ...
Hardware
Jun 7, 2007
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Excitons play peek-a-boo on carbon nanotubes
In the quantum world, photons and electrons dance, bump and carry out transactions that govern everything we see in the world around us. In this week's issue of Science, French and U.S. scientists describe a new technique ...
Nanophysics
Jun 7, 2007
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Goodbye wires... MIT experimentally demonstrates wireless power transfer
Imagine a future in which wireless power transfer is feasible: cell phones, household robots, mp3 players, laptop computers and other portable electronics capable of charging themselves without ever being plugged in, freeing ...
General Physics
Jun 7, 2007
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Agonized pose tells of dinosaur death throes
The peculiar pose of many fossilized dinosaurs, with wide-open mouth, head thrown back and recurved tail, likely resulted from the agonized death throes typical of brain damage and asphyxiation, according to two paleontologists.
Archaeology
Jun 7, 2007
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Margin for profit in petrol prices no error, says economist
A University of Western Sydney economist says there is no doubt who benefits from any increase in petrol prices - especially when it comes to long weekends.
Other
Jun 7, 2007
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Birds, Bees, and Moths Drive Flower Evolution
Flowers evolve in a predictable fashion to match the mouthparts of pollinating birds and insects, rather than engaging in a gradual "arms race" between flower and pollinator, according to a new study by researchers at the ...
Jun 7, 2007
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