(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA scientists created a unique collection of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) spectra to interpret mysterious emission from space. Because PAHs are a major product of combustion, remain in the environment, ...
Astronomy
Aug 2, 2010
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Every three years, the same phase of the moon happens on about the same date of each month. The annual Perseid meteor shower of August last happened in a moonless sky in 2007, so this year if the sky is clear when the Perseids ...
Space Exploration
Aug 2, 2010
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During the first summer Abdel Bachri and his physics students at Southern Arkansas University spent at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory they accomplished something that would've been impossible back home: they built ...
General Physics
Aug 2, 2010
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Sky viewers might get to enjoy some spectacular Northern Lights, or aurorae, tomorrow. After a long slumber, the Sun is waking up. Early Sunday morning, the Sun's surface erupted and blasted tons of plasma (ionized atoms) ...
Space Exploration
Aug 2, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Two lines of pest-resistant soybean painstakingly developed by a Michigan State University scientist promise healthier harvests for growers and a little green for the university too.
Other
Aug 2, 2010
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(AP) -- The latest form of identity theft doesn't depend on stealing your Social Security number. Now thieves are targeting your kid's number long before the little one even has a bank account.
Internet
Aug 2, 2010
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An international science team involving the University of Colorado at Boulder that is working on the North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling project hit bedrock July 27 after two summers of work, drilling down more than 1.5 miles ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 2, 2010
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New research shows that when some fence lizards are attacked by fire ants they "stress out"-- a response that actually helps the species to survive by heightening the animal's awareness of imminent danger. Tracy Langkilde, ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 2, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- UT Dallas researchers have released software tools intended to help make cloud computing the standard way much computing is done.
Computer Sciences
Aug 2, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1976, the Viking spacecraft, flying above Mars, captured an image of what appeard to be a large face on the surface of the planet. The face appeared, to many, as proof that a Martian civilization existed; ...
