Study: Rap Music Linked to Sexism
Rap music brings out sexism in college students, but it doesn't necessarily cause the students to be sexist.
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Feb 21, 2008
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Modified electron microscope identifies atoms
A new electron microscope recently installed in Cornell's Duffield Hall is enabling scientists for the first time to form images that uniquely identify individual atoms in a crystal and see how those atoms bond to one another. ...
General Physics
Feb 21, 2008
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An-arrgh-chy! What Blackbeard can teach us about politics
Pirates, like gangsters, highwayman, and other colorful outlaws, have always carried a certain romantic appeal with them upon the high seas. Thanks to a certain movie trilogy, they are the most appealing of the outlaws at ...
Other
Feb 21, 2008
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Scientists First To Measure Force Required To Move Individual Atoms
IBM scientists, in collaboration with the University of Regensburg in Germany, are the first ever to measure the force it takes to move individual atoms on a surface. This fundamental measurement provides important information ...
Nanophysics
Feb 21, 2008
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Researchers investigate mass bat deaths
First it was bees that were mysteriously dying. Now it's bats.
Feb 21, 2008
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Quantifying Earth's copper: Study puts numbers on nonrenewabilility
Unlike forests, fisheries and other resources that can be renewed relatively rapidly through natural processes, mineral deposits form so slowly that they're classified as nonrenewable. But just how non-renewable are they, ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 21, 2008
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Cold conspirators: Ice crystals implicated in Arctic pollution
Frost flowers. Diamond dust. Hoarfrost. These poetically named ice crystal forms are part of the stark beauty of the Arctic. But they also play a role in its pollution, a new study by scientists at the University of Michigan, ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 21, 2008
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Study finds cloudy outlook for solar panels
Despite increasing popular support for solar photovoltaic panels in the United States, their costs far outweigh the benefits, according to a new analysis by Severin Borenstein, a professor at the University of California, ...
Energy & Green Tech
Feb 21, 2008
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Analogue logic for quantum computing
Digital logic, or bits, is the only paradigm for the IT world, and up to now researchers used it almost exclusively to study quantum information processing. But European scientists, in a series of firsts, have proved that ...
General Physics
Feb 21, 2008
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Advanced engineered substrates boost chip performance
A single platform that combines the benefits of strained silicon and silicon-on-insulator technologies hopes to offer much improved performance for future chip generations.
Electronics & Semiconductors
Feb 21, 2008
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