Archive: 09/20/2006
Greenland ice sheet still losing mass
Data gathered by a pair of NASA satellites orbiting Earth show Greenland continued to lose ice mass at a significant rate through April 2006, and that the rate of loss is accelerating, according to a new University ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 20, 2006 |
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New research puts 'killer La Palma tsunami' at distant future
The volcanic island of La Palma in the Canaries is much more stable than is generally assumed, Dutch scientists working at the TU Delft have found. The southwestern flank of the island isn’t likely to fall into the sea (potentially ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 20, 2006 |
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How the brain keeps emotions at bay
Daily life requires that people cope with distracting emotions--from the basketball player who must make a crucial shot amidst a screaming crowd, to a salesman under pressure delivering an important pitch to a client. Researchers ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Sep 20, 2006 |
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New technology helping foster the 'democratization of cartography'
Mark Harrower recalls a raging debate in his field in the 1970s, when some geographers worried that commercial map-making software would trigger the demise of cartography.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 20, 2006 |
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A 'prisoner's dilemma' for real-life situations
What's best for the individual and what's best for society are often not the same thing--this predicament is the premise for the famous "prisoner's dilemma" game. However, healthy societies depend on individuals ...
Sep 20, 2006 |
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Solar-B -- a new solar mission to study the dynamic sun
A new Japanese-led solar mission with ESA participation is preparing for launch on 23 September 2006. Solar-B will study the mechanisms which power the solar atmosphere and look for the causes of violent solar ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 20, 2006 |
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Breakthrough in computer chip design eliminates wires in data transmission
Research slated to appear in the October 2 edition of the Optical Society of America's Optics Express will unveil that researchers have created a new laser-silicon hybrid computer chip that can produce laser beams that w ...
Sep 20, 2006 |
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Scientists discover new ring and other features at Saturn
Saturn sports a new ring in an image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Sunday, Sept. 17, during a one-of-a-kind observation.
Sep 20, 2006 |
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To be or not to be: Is it all about spinning?
Thanks to the unique possibilities offered by ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI), astronomers have solved a 140-year-old mystery concerning active hot stars. They indeed show that the star Alpha ...
Sep 20, 2006 |
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