News tagged with long
Viking 'sunstone' more than a myth
Ancient tales of Norse mariners using mysterious sunstones to navigate the ocean when clouds obscured the Sun and stars are more than just legend, according to a study published Wednesday.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 02, 2011 |
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Long-Distance Teleportation Between Two Atoms: First between atoms 1 meter apart
(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, scientists have successfully teleported information between two separate atoms in unconnected enclosures a meter apart - a significant milestone in the global quest for ...
Jan 22, 2009 |
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Milky Way a Swifter Spinner, More Massive, New Measurements Show
(PhysOrg.com) -- Fasten your seat belts -- we're faster, heavier, and more likely to collide than we thought. Astronomers making high-precision measurements of the Milky Way say our home Galaxy is rotating ...
Jan 05, 2009 |
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The annihilating effects of space travel
Long distance space travel could create the ultimate 'killer entrance', devastating your destination and anything around the arriving spacecraft, according to calculations by Professor Geraint Lewis and two ...
Mar 12, 2012 |
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Young adults' sexual relationships increasingly favor men, research finds
(PhysOrg.com) -- While young women's educational and career opportunities have skyrocketed over the past two decades, their opportunities for stable, long-term relationships have declined, according to new research from sociologists ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jan 18, 2011 |
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'Amplified' nanotubes may power the future
Rice University scientists have achieved a pivotal breakthrough in the development of a cable that will make an efficient electric grid of the future possible.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 14, 2011 |
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Major clue in long-term memory making discovered
You may remember the color of your loved one's eyes for years. But how?
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 20, 2011 |
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Researchers Detect First Neutrino Events at T2K Facilities in Japan
(PhysOrg.com) -- Louisiana State University researchers, including graduate and undergraduate students, have been working for several years on an experiment in Japan called T2K, short for Tokai to Kamioka ...
Jan 19, 2010 |
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Precise Radio-Telescope Measurements Advance Frontier Gravitational Physics
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists using a continent-wide array of radio telescopes have made an extremely precise measurement of the curvature of space caused by the Sun's gravity, and their technique promises a ...
Sep 01, 2009 |
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Close-up movie shows hidden details in the birth of super-suns (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- The constellation of Orion is a hotbed of massive star formation, most prominently in the Great Nebula that sits in Orion's sword. The glowing gas of the Nebula is powered by a group of young ...
Nov 16, 2009 |
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Seeking the universe from an apple orchard in Washington state
Out here by an apple orchard just off Highway 97 is one of the Hubble Space Telescope's ignored cousins, an 82-foot dish painted all white that weighs in at 240 tons.
May 04, 2010 |
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Flapping micro air vehicles inspired by swifts
Scientists have designed a micro aircraft that will be able to flap, glide and hover like a bird.
Jul 02, 2011 |
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Some sauropods really did hold their long necks high
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study suggests the long necks of sauropod dinosaurs really were held high, in spite of theories suggesting they were more likely to keep their necks low because of the very high blood ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 03, 2010 |
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Ancient harvestmen revealed in 3-D models
Two ancient types of harvestmen, or 'daddy long legs,' which skittered around forests more than 300 million years ago, are revealed in new three-dimensional virtual fossil models published today in the journal ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Aug 23, 2011 |
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Sleep helps build long-term memories
(PhysOrg.com) -- Experts have long suspected that part of the process of turning fleeting short-term memories into lasting long-term memories occurs during sleep. Now, researchers at the RIKEN-MIT Center for ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 24, 2009 |
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