Gee Whizzz! Basics on faster-than-light research
Some questions and answers about the experiment that appeared to show particles speeding faster than light.
Sep 23, 2011
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Sep 23, 2011
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Google pulls plug on Fast Flip, Aardvark
Google said Friday it is pulling the plug on online news reader Fast Flip, social search service Aardvark, commenting tool Sidewiki and several other products.
Sep 03, 2011
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New study aims to assess how we perceive risks
Do you know how risky scuba diving is compared to riding a motorbike? When choosing between a fairly safe option and a slightly riskier one, which do you take? A new study, launched last night on the BBC's ...
Apr 06, 2011
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Forget everything you thought you knew about memory
Research may shed light on why dementia sufferers have memory difficulties.
Dec 07, 2010
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Humidity makes gecko feet stickier
Geckos have amazingly sticky feet. Their stickability comes from billions of dry microscopic hairs that coat the soles of their feet. However, when humidity increases, gecko feet stick even tighter to smooth ...
Oct 15, 2010
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Personality predicts cheating more than academic struggles, study shows
Students who cheat in high school and college are highly likely to fit the profile for subclinical psychopathy - a personality disorder defined by erratic lifestyle, manipulation, callousness and antisocial tendencies, according ...
Sep 07, 2010
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Testing predictions in electrochemical nanosystems
German physicists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) are gearing up for experimental tests of findings they arrived at through theoretical considerations: that electrochemical reactions take place more rapidly ...
Jun 07, 2010
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Panel says NASA should skip moon, fly elsewhere (Update)
(AP) -- NASA needs to make a major detour on its grand plans to return astronauts to the moon, a special independent panel told the White House Thursday.
Oct 23, 2009
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Study: Men Losing Their Minds Over Women
(PhysOrg.com) -- Research reported in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology has shown that men go ga-ga over pretty women. They simply lose their minds (while women keep theirs).
Sep 07, 2009
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Long-term effects of the Human Volunteer Programme at Porton Down
(PhysOrg.com) -- Oxford researchers have reported results from a study of death and cancer rates in military veterans who took part in the Ministry of Defence’s Human Volunteer Programme at Porton Down between ...
Mar 25, 2009
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