Archive: 01/4/2006

Semantic descriptors to help the hunt for music

You like a certain song and want to hear other tracks like it, but don't know how to find them? Ending the needle-in-a-haystack problem of searching for music on the Internet or even in your own hard drive is a new audio-based ...

Jan 04, 2006 4 / 5 (3) 0

Measuring the size of a small, frost world

Being in the right place at the right time gave a group of Massachusetts research astronomers a unique opportunity to study Pluto's largest moon Charon. The resulting measurements, to unprecedented accuracy, ...

Jan 04, 2006 5 / 5 (6) 0

Gold 'glitters' in new ways at the nanoscale

May lead to new computer chips, network switches Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have found that gold "shines" in a different way at the nanoscale, and the insights may lead to ...

Jan 04, 2006 4 / 5 (7) 0

Scientists work to squeeze atoms

Like bakers measuring the exact same amount of flour every time they made bread, physicists at The University of Texas at Austin have used a laser trap to consistently capture and measure the same small number of atoms.

Jan 04, 2006 4 / 5 (7) 0

Apollo Chronicles: Dark Shadows

On the next sunny day, step outdoors and look inside your shadow. It's not very dark, is it? Grass, sidewalk, toes--whatever's in there, you can see quite well.

Jan 04, 2006 4.7 / 5 (10) 0

A Planet Colder Than It Should Be

Mercury is boiling. Mars is freezing. The Earth is just right. When it comes to the temperatures of the planets, it makes sense that they should get colder the farther away they are from the Sun. But then there ...

Jan 04, 2006 4.3 / 5 (11) 0