Plants don't think – but animals do. The difference between the thoughts of humans and the thoughts of other animals – and whether we will ever be able to find out exactly what they are - will be the topic of a ...
Other
Dec 1, 2010
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More than one million people have watched assembly and testing of NASA's next Mars rover via a live webcam since it went online in October.
Space Exploration
Dec 1, 2010
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Although drinking water is monitored more strictly than almost anything, our water supply network is still not immune to accidents, wear and tear or targeted attacks. A one-minute warning system for toxins and other substances ...
Engineering
Dec 1, 2010
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Need has caught up with Gerhard Welsch's ideas. Welsch, a professor of materials science and engineering at Case Western Reserve University, began patenting designs for a small, light, powerful and reliable capacitor in 2000.
Engineering
Dec 1, 2010
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Unseasonal warm temperatures caused by El Niтo have a profound effect on the fish populations of coral reefs in the South Pacific, scientists have found. An international team of biologists studied the arrival ...
Environment
Dec 1, 2010
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Evelyn Fox Keller, professor emerita in MIT’s Program in Science, Technology, and Society, is a leading historian of biology whose new book, The Mirage of a Space between Nature and Nurture, published this fall by Duke ...
Evolution
Dec 1, 2010
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Ocean variability -- the perpetual changing of currents, temperatures, salinity and the contours of the seafloor -- alters the way sound travels through the water. A new analysis of how this variability affects sound waves ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 1, 2010
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A new report prepared by scientists from the Joint Global Change Research Institute, a collaboration of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of Maryland, provides recommendations on how to integrate scientific ...
Environment
Dec 1, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Do ants hold the key to the fuel of the future? Formic acid provides more efficient and safer storage of hydrogen. It is an ideal way to store energy from renewable sources or to power 21st century cars.
Materials Science
Dec 1, 2010
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Where you live in the world largely determines how freely you can access the internet. The level of cyber censorship in different countries around the world is directly related to how authoritarian the governing regime is, ...
Internet
Dec 1, 2010
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