In work that could one day help prevent millions of dollars in economic losses for seaside communities, MIT chemists have demonstrated how tiny marine organisms likely produce the red tide toxin that periodically shuts down ...
Aug 30, 2007
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Scientists at the University of Rochester and the J. Craig Venter Institute have discovered a copy of the genome of a bacterial parasite residing inside the genome of its host species.
Aug 30, 2007
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Large continental ice sheets did not exist in both hemispheres around 41 million years ago during the warmer-than modern conditions of the time.
Earth Sciences
Aug 30, 2007
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NTT DoCoMo announced today the development of two smartphones equipped with the Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.0 Japanese-edition operating system.
Consumer & Gadgets
Aug 30, 2007
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By Friday, August 24, 2007, the remnants of Dean were dissipating off the western Mexican coast.
Earth Sciences
Aug 30, 2007
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MIT engineers have shown that nanofluids, which once held promise as a super-coolant, do not have the theoretical cooling capabilities many scientists believed they had.
Nanophysics
Aug 30, 2007
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Photonic quantum information science could soon move out of the laboratory and be used in future technologies like quantum computers thanks to a grant of over £1 million.
General Physics
Aug 30, 2007
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According to a pair of statistical physicists, sports leagues as they are typically set up – with each team playing an equal number of games and the one with the most wins declared league champion – too often allow a ...
Using restricted-access Census data, a new study examines a quarter-million households on a block-by-block basis to yield new results about the correlation between household attributes and school quality. The researchers ...
Other
Aug 30, 2007
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The mighty Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity continue to persevere in brutal conditions, as revealed in images of the sun they are sending home. The images show how opaque the Martian atmosphere has been in the face of a ...
Space Exploration
Aug 30, 2007
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