News tagged with fingerprints
New class of stellar explosions discovered
They're bright and blue-and a bit strange. They're a new type of stellar explosion that was recently discovered by a team of astronomers led by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Among the most ...
Jun 08, 2011 |
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Super-Earth has an atmosphere, but is it steamy or gassy?
In December 2009, astronomers announced the discovery of a super-Earth known as GJ 1214b. At the time, they reported signs that the newfound world likely had a thick, gaseous atmosphere. Now, a team led by ...
Dec 01, 2010 |
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Supernova shrapnel found in meteorite
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have identified the microscopic shrapnel of a nearby star that exploded just before or during the birth of the solar system 4.5 billion years ago.
Sep 09, 2010 |
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Phoenix Mars Lander finds surprises about red planet's watery past
(PhysOrg.com) -- Liquid water has interacted with the Martian surface throughout Mars' history, measurements by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander suggest.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 09, 2010 |
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Room's Ambience Fingerprinted By Phone
(PhysOrg.com) -- Your smart phone may soon be able to know not only that you're at the mall, but whether you're in the jewelry store or the shoe store.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Sep 24, 2009 |
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DIY 'tinkerers' create more than mere toys from spare parts
To Ken Delahoussaye, an old computer, cell phone, camera or even a child's toy is much more than a disposable device. Each is something he can take apart and fuse with other parts to create something totally new.
Apr 29, 2009 |
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Why Do We Have Fingerprints?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Unlike most wrinkles on our bodies, which appear due to bending and stretching of the skin, fingerprints aren't the result of repeated motion. Each of us is born with a unique set of them, ...
Apr 04, 2009 |
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Finding fingerprints in sea level rise
It was used to help Apollo astronauts navigate in space, and has since been applied to problems as diverse as economics and weather forecasting, but Harvard scientists are now using a powerful statistical tool to not only ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 18, 2012 |
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lobSTR algorithm rolls DNA fingerprinting into 21st century
As any crime show buff can tell you, DNA evidence identifies a victim's remains, fingers the guilty, and sets the innocent free. But in reality, the processing of forensic DNA evidence takes much longer than a 60-minute primetime ...
Apr 27, 2012 |
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Fingerprints tell all: Progress in fingerprint analysis
(PhysOrg.com) -- It has long been well established that fingerprints can be used to identify people or help convict them of crimes. Things have gone a lot further now: fingerprints can be used to show that ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Mar 30, 2012 |
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Space mountain produces terrestrial meteorites
When NASA's Dawn spacecraft entered orbit around giant asteroid Vesta in July, scientists fully expected the probe to reveal some surprising sights. But no one expected a 13-mile high mountain, two and a half ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 02, 2012 |
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Novel epigenetic patterns involved in cell fate regulation
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) publish exciting new results on the regulation of cell fate in the scientific journal Nature. They identified ...
Dec 15, 2011 |
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Robotics team finds artificial fingerprints improve tactile abilities
(PhysOrg.com) -- Over the past couple of decades, many people in and out of the science community have watched the steady progress being made in robotics. It’s an exceptionally interesting field due to ...
Sep 21, 2011 |
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Security first: When a footstep is like a fingerprint
How a bare foot strikes the ground as one walks reveals your identity almost as well as a fingerprint, according to a study released Wednesday.
Sep 07, 2011 |
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Chemist contributes to development of novel method for recovering old fingerprints
A Northern Illinois University chemist is part of an international team of scientists whose work might someday crack open cold-case files.
Aug 03, 2011 |
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Fingerprint (disambiguation)
A fingerprint is a mark made by the pattern of ridges on the pad of a human finger. The term has been extended by metaphor to anything that can uniquely distinguish a person or object from another, including:
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Wikipedia.
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