20/12/2005

Duke Chemist's Lab Steady Source of 'Nanotube' Advances

"Nanotubes" grown in the busy laboratory of associate chemistry professor Jie Liu were crucial to IBM scientists' recent announcements of a new source of light emissions. Liu's lab is also working with a California firm to ...

Breaking the silence online

A website that allows sex partners to inform each other about their sexual health has been launched in Los Angeles.

Scientists narrow time limits for human, chimp split

A team of researchers has proposed new limits on the time when the most recent common ancestor of humans and their closest ape relatives – the chimpanzees – lived. Scientists at Arizona State University and Penn State ...

Researchers extend Einstein's work

A University of Queensland research team has celebrated the end of the Einstein International Year of Physics by developing a ground-breaking theory based on work originated by the great scientist.

Record year for meteorite recovery in Canada

The discovery of four new meteorites in 2005 makes it a record-setting year for recovering rocks from outer space in Canada and also confirms a University of Calgary scientist’s belief that an extraordinary concentration ...

Opportunity Completes Atmospheric Science Campaign At Erebus

Opportunity successfully deployed its robotic arm on sol 671 (Dec. 13, 2005) and used it to position the microscopic imager. The cause of a shoulder-joint motor stall during an attempt to deploy the arm on sol 654 appears ...

Permafrost may nearly disappear by 2100

The National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., says global warming may destroy most permafrost across the Northern Hemisphere.

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