(PhysOrg.com) -- Fast-moving objects create blurry images in photography, and the same challenge exists when scientists observe cellular interactions within tissues constantly in motion, such as the breathing ...
Dec 20, 2010
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With little more than a plastic soda bottle, some fishing line, a sponge, and dry ice, anyone can make it snow, make it snow, make it snow... one flake at a time.
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Whooshing down Highway 101 toward his home in Redwood City, Calif., from San Francisco on Saturday afternoon, Olivier Chalouhi was a happy man - the world's first buyer of the all-electric Nissan Leaf to take ...
Dec 20, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Arizona scientists have inserted metal atoms into methane gas molecules and obtained a detailed structure of the resulting molecule. The discovery could be a key step in making ...
Dec 20, 2010
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(AP) -- Foursquare, a popular location-sharing service for smart phones, is now letting you upload a photo of that tasty burger you're about to bite into. You can also let your friend know, through a comment on his recent ...
Dec 20, 2010
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The best-selling tech item around the world is a cell phone and, for the last two years, it's been all about the smart phone, the device that puts the Internet in your pocket.
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An interdisciplinary team of researchers at UC Santa Barbara has produced a groundbreaking study of how nanoparticles are able to biomagnify in a simple microbial food chain.
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In the United States, pacemakers cost $10,000 to $50,000 to implant. About 100,000 Americans undergo the surgery each year. These life-saving devices, however, are mostly discarded in medical waste or buried with people when ...
Dec 20, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory tells scientists how often the biggest black holes have been active over the last few billion years. This discovery clarifies how supermassive ...
Dec 20, 2010
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Doctors and scientists in Wisconsin have published the first detailed account of a groundbreaking medical case in which they sequenced all the genes of a very sick young boy from Monona, Wis., and used the information to ...
Dec 20, 2010
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The face of a doll is clearly not human; the face of a human clearly is. Telling the difference allows us to pay attention to faces that belong to living things, which are capable of interacting with us. But where is the ...
Dec 20, 2010
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Southeast Asia's largest hydroelectric power station has begun operating to help ease an electricity shortage in fast-growing Vietnam, an official said Monday.
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The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) recommended Monday limiting access to eight harmful but widely-used industrial substances.
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The primary method by which astronomers can measure magnetic field strength on stars is the Zeeman effect. This effect is the splitting of spectral lines into two due to the magnetic field's effect on the ...
Dec 20, 2010
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As the common household incandescent bulb marches towards extinction (they'll be completely phased out in the U.S. by 2014), the "battle of the bulb" heats up with CFLs, LEDs, and a new long-lasting contender, ...
Dec 20, 2010
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