For more than four hundred years, astronomers have used telescopes to study the great variety of stars in our galaxy. Millions of distant suns have been catalogued. There are dwarf stars, giant stars, dead stars, exploding ...
Astronomy
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For many people, daily computer use might lead to complaints about a sore back, carpal tunnel or lost data. For Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) Associate Professor Katherine Isbister, glazed eyes and ...
Software
Nov 1, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Waikato researchers have managed to create a billion-year-old bacterial enzyme and then trace its evolution through history, to the modern day.
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 1, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A late October snowstorm from a Nor'easter blanketed the eastern U.S. from West Virginia to Maine and broke records the weekend before Halloween Monday. NASA's Aqua satellite flew over the region on October ...
Environment
Nov 1, 2011
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Researchers in Germany have discovered that urban light pollution not only limits the visibility of stars, but also plays havoc with nocturnal animals that depend on a compass-like pattern of polarised light to function. ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 1, 2011
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True luxury has only one color – gold. A nanometer-thin layer of pure gold now lends ties and pocket handkerchiefs that authentic gold sheen, thanks to a new Empa-developed process. The yarn, which is coated using a ...
Engineering
Nov 1, 2011
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When Hurricane Irene barreled up the East Coast this August, forecasters had a pretty good idea of the track the storm would take, along with its expected wind, rain and storm surge.
Earth Sciences
Nov 1, 2011
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Under a partly cloudy sky overlooking grassy mesas, dozens of cylindrical instruments point toward the sun above the Colorado prairie.
Space Exploration
Nov 1, 2011
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There are no agriculture majors at Missouri University of Science and Technology, but some engineering students on the campus have taken up virtual planting and harvesting through the social networking game FarmVille on Facebook. ...
Social Sciences
Nov 1, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Football has often been called “a game of inches,” but biology is a game of nanometers, where spatial differences of only a few nanometers can determine the fate of a cell – whether it lives ...
Bio & Medicine
Nov 1, 2011
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