Scientists today described development of a new explosives detector that can sense small amounts of TNT and other common explosives in liquids instantly with a sensitivity that rivals bomb-sniffing dogs, the current gold ...
Analytical Chemistry
Mar 28, 2012
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A team of physicists at UC Santa Barbara has seen the light, and it comes in many different colors. By aiming high- and low-frequency laser beams at a semiconductor, the researchers caused electrons to be ripped from their ...
Optics & Photonics
Mar 28, 2012
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A hidden and never before recognized layer of information in the genetic code has been uncovered by a team of scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) thanks to a technique developed at UCSF called ...
Biotechnology
Mar 28, 2012
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The Camarillo fold belt (CFB) in the Western Transverse Ranges poses a significant seismic hazard to nearly one million people living in Southern California, yet few published geologic or geochronological data from this fold ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 28, 2012
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Plate tectonics, the dominant process shaping Earth as we know it today, may not have existed throughout Earth's history.
Earth Sciences
Mar 28, 2012
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Google on Wednesday began letting people get monthly reports summarizing what they have been up to at the Internet titan's free online services.
Internet
Mar 28, 2012
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The Woodlark Rift off-shore of eastern Papua New Guinea is the fastest extending continental crust on Earth.
Earth Sciences
Mar 28, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new fossil discovery from Eastern Africa called the Burtele foot indicates Australopithecus afarensis, an early relative of modern humans, may not have been the only hominin to walk the plains and woodlands ...
Archaeology
Mar 28, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the Planetary Science Institute (PSI) and NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) have proposed a new hypothesis to explain a class of enigmatic geologic features on Mars that have puzzled scientists ...
Space Exploration
Mar 28, 2012
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Swiss mining giant Xstrata has won a test case against what is set to be Australia's largest open-cut coal mine, with a court ruling that the economic benefits outweighed its climate change impacts.
Environment
Mar 28, 2012
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