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Study: Believers' inferences about God's beliefs are uniquely egocentric
Religious people tend to use their own beliefs as a guide in thinking about what God believes, but are less constrained when reasoning about other people's beliefs, according to new study published in the ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 30, 2009 |
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Researchers Create Microscope With 100 Million Times Finer Resolution Than Current MRI
(PhysOrg.com) -- IBM Research scientists, in collaboration with the Center for Probing the Nanoscale at Stanford University, have demonstrated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with volume resolution 100 million ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 13, 2009 |
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Komodo even more deadly than thought: Research
The carnivorous reptiles (Varanus komodoensis) are known to bite prey and release them, leaving them to bleed to death from their wounds: the victims are reported to go into shock before the dragons kill a ...
May 18, 2009 |
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Cassini's Big Sky: The View from the Center of Our Solar System
(PhysOrg.com) -- When NASA's Cassini spacecraft began orbiting Saturn five years ago, a dozen highly-tuned science instruments set to work surveying, sniffing, analyzing and scrutinizing the Saturnian system.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 20, 2009 |
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Mars camera yields best Red Planet map ever
(PhysOrg.com) -- The best Mars map ever made is now available online for planetary scientists and armchair astronauts alike. And citizen scientists are invited to help make it even better.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 23, 2010 |
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Scientists see water ice in fresh meteorite craters on Mars
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists are seeing sub-surface water ice that may be 99 percent pure halfway between the north pole and the equator on Mars, thanks to quick-turnaround observations from orbit of fresh ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 24, 2009 |
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Cassini Data Help Redraw Shape of Solar System (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Images from the Ion and Neutral Camera on NASA's Cassini spacecraft suggest that the heliosphere, the region of the sun's influence, may not have the comet-like shape predicted by existing ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 16, 2009 |
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Geological landforms indicate 'recent' warm weather on Mars
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research led by a UK scientist indicates that Mars had significantly warmer weather in its recent past than previously thought. The research, funded by the UK’s Science and Technology ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 29, 2009 |
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Brain structure corresponds to personality
Personalities come in all kinds. Now psychological scientists have found that the size of different parts of people's brains correspond to their personalities; for example, conscientious people tend to have a bigger lateral ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 22, 2010 |
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Winds of change strike Mars, too
Mysterious dark sand dunes around Mars' northern polar cap are shifting with the seasons, as carbon dioxide gas changes form and sparks landscape-altering avalanches, said a study published Thursday.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 03, 2011 |
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Martian Face Turns Out to be a Rocky Mesa
(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1976, the Viking spacecraft, flying above Mars, captured an image of what appeard to be a large face on the surface of the planet. The face appeared, to many, as proof that a Martian civilization ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 02, 2010 |
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Optical microscope without lenses produces high-resolution 3-D images on a chip
(PhysOrg.com) -- UCLA researchers have redefined the concept of a microscope by removing the lens to create a system that is small enough to fit in the palm of a hand but powerful enough to create three-dimensional ...
Apr 22, 2011 |
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Hundreds of New Views from Telescope Orbiting Mars
(PhysOrg.com) -- The most powerful telescopic camera ever to orbit Mars reveals a fresh crater, an ice mound, climate-recording layers and many other views in 314 newly released observations.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 04, 2010 |
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Is it snowing microbes on Enceladus?
There's a tiny moon orbiting beyond Saturn's rings that's full of promise, and maybe -- just maybe -- microbes.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 28, 2012 |
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Aging process revealed by lactate in the brain
Swedish researchers at Karolinska Institutet have shown that they may be able to monitor the aging process in the brain, by using MRI technique to measure the brain lactic acid levels. Their findings suggest that the lactate ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 02, 2010 |
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