(PhysOrg.com) -- In the split second before foot meets ball, a soccer player's body betrays whether a penalty kick will go left or right, according to recent research in cognitive science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. ...
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Jun 24, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have proposed a new design for an invisibility cloak - a device that could make objects invisible by guiding light around anything placed inside the cloak.
Over the past couple of decades, atomic force microscopy (AFM) has emerged as a powerful tool for imaging surfaces at astonishing resolutions—fractions of a nanometer in some cases. But suppose you're more concerned with ...
Nanomaterials
Jun 24, 2010
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A sharp view of the starry sky is difficult, because the atmosphere constantly distorts the image. Eindhoven University of Technology researcher Roger Hamelinck developed a new type of telescope mirror, which quickly corrects ...
Astronomy
Jun 24, 2010
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UK school pupils from Nottingham have become pioneer scientists as part of a research project aimed at designing an innovative approach to learning.
Social Sciences
Jun 24, 2010
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Japan's space agency said it had found a trace of gas Thursday in a capsule thought to contain asteroid dust that was brought back to Earth after a multi-billion-kilometre (mile) space journey.
Space Exploration
Jun 24, 2010
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In trying to copy the photosynthesis in the laboratory a team of scientists of the Universities of Jena and Erlangen-Nurnberg and of the Institute of Photonic Technology in Jena (Germany) made a huge step forward. The physicists ...
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Jun 24, 2010
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With summer travel season hard upon us, specialists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have helped create two new standards designed to increase safety as we rush from gate to gate in crowded mass transit ...
Engineering
Jun 24, 2010
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Planetary scientists have uncovered telltale signs of water on Mars — frozen and liquid — in the earliest period of the Red Planet's history. A new claim, made public this month, is that a deep ocean covered some of the ...
Space Exploration
Jun 24, 2010
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National Institute of Standards and Technology scientists have moved a step closer to developing the means for a rapid diagnostic blood test that can scan for thousands of disease markers and other chemical indicators of ...
Bio & Medicine
Jun 24, 2010
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