Scientists work to stop bridge corrosion
Purdue University engineers in West Lafayette, Ind., say they're developing a new generation of bridges that will be corrosion resistant.
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Physicists Achieve Quantum Entanglement Between Remote Ensembles of Atoms
Physicists have managed to "entangle" the physical state of a group of atoms with that of another group of atoms across the room. This research represents an important advance relevant to the foundations of quantum mechanics ...
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Alaska's Columbia Glacier continues on disintegration course
Alaska's rapidly disintegrating Columbia Glacier, which has shrunk in length by 9 miles since 1980, has reached the mid-point of its projected retreat, according to a new University of Colorado at Boulder study.
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Researchers 'wire' DNA to identify mutations
A team of ASU researchers led by Nongjian Tao and Peiming Zhang has developed a new, breakthrough technique for the detection of DNA mutations. Their results, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy ...
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'Doctor Franklin's Medicine' explores founding father's vast medical legacy
Benjamin Franklin's myriad contributions as scientist, inventor, publisher and statesman will be back in the spotlight in coming months as America celebrates his 300th birthday on Jan. 17, 2006.
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PULSE: The Impact of European Pulsar Science on Modern Physics
Pulsars are neutron stars that rotate quickly, up to 600 times per second. They are compact -- only 20 kilometres in diameter -- leftovers of supernova explosions. Nonetheless they have a mass 1.4 times that of our sun, and ...
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Huygens finds a hostile world on Titan
Conditions on Saturn's moon Titan, with its dense atmosphere, are similar to those on Earth early in our solar system. Pictures and spectral analysis of Titan's surface, recorded by an international scientific team including ...
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Changes to land cover may enhance global warming in Amazon, reduce it in midlatitudes
New simulations of 21st-century climate show that human-produced changes in land cover could produce additional warming in the Amazon region comparable to that caused by greenhouse gases, while counteracting greenhouse warming ...
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Former Intel chief architect provides an insider's look into the design of the Pentium chips
One of the most recognizable brand names in the world, Intel Corporation has become synonymous with the computer age. From its introduction of the first microprocessor more than 30 years ago to its meteoritic rise in the ...
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Magnet Lab Researcher Exploring Science Behind Commercial Applications of Liquid Helium
Picture a teaspoon of powdered sugar. As fine a substance as it is, there still are tremendous differences in the sizes of its individual particles. Some are so small, they move around randomly and are invisible to the naked ...
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