Location: Princeton University, United States
A dwarf star with a surprisingly magnetic personality and a huge hot spot
covering half its surface area is showing astronomers that life as a cool dwarf
is not necessarily as simple and quiet as they once assumed.
Simultaneous...
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Location: University of British Columbia, Canada
University of British Columbia astronomer
Harvey Richer and UBC graduate student Saul Davis have discovered that white
dwarf stars are born with a natal kick, explaining why these smoldering embers
of...
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Location: Conservation International, United States
Healthy ecosystems
that provide people with essential natural goods and services often overlap with
regions rich in biological diversity, underscoring that conserving one...
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Location: Purdue University, United States
Researchers who study severe weather and climate
change joined forces to study the effects of global
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Location: University of Illinois at Chicago, United States
The world's most powerful medical magnetic resonance imaging machine, the 9.4
Tesla at the University
of Illinois at Chicago, has successfully completed safety trials and may
soon...
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Location: Rice University, United States
Robotics engineers at Rice University are
teaming with doctors from Memorial
Hermann|TIRR to develop a PC-based system for physical...
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Location: University of Chicago, United States
Faint, fleeting blue flashes of radiation emitted by particles that travel
faster than the speed of light through the atmosphere may help scientists solve
one of the oldest mysteries in astrophysics.
For nearly a century, scientists...
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Location: University of Missouri, United States
Sending an unmanned spacecraft to the outer fringes of the solar system
requires extensive planning. At the University
of Missouri, engineers have developed an efficient and highly sophisticated
...
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Location: Clemson University, United States
The next generation of laptops, desk computers, cell phones and other
semiconductor devices may get faster and more cost-effective with research from Clemson
University.
"We’ve developed a new...
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Location: Purdue University, United States
A group of Purdue University researchers
has captured a key step in the metabolic process that allows materials, such as
nutrients and drug treatments, to move in and out of cells.
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Location: University of Michigan, United States
A wireless, nano-scale voltmeter developed at the University
of Michigan is overturning conventional wisdom about the physical
environment inside cells. It may someday help researchers tackle such tricky
...
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Location: McMaster University, Canada
Hamilton, ON. November 29, 2007 – Researchers using supercomputer
simulations have exposed a very violent and critical relationship between
interstellar gas and dark matter when galaxies are born – one that has been
largely ignored by the...
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Location: Duke University, United States
Scientists at Duke University have created
the first map of imprinted genes throughout the human genome, and they say a
modern-day Rosetta stone – a form of artificial intelligence called machine
learning –...
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Location: University of California, Berkeley, United States
Three quarters of our universe is made up of some weird, gravitationally
repulsive substance that was only discovered ten years ago – dark energy. This
month in Physics World, Eric Linder and Saul Perlmutter, both at the
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Location: NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, United States
One of the fastest moving stars ever seen has been discovered with NASA's
Chandra X-ray Observatory. This cosmic cannonball is challenging theories to
explain its blistering speed.
Astronomers...
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Location: Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
As the first research group in the world, researchers at Chalmers
have succeeded in combining a receiver for high frequencies with an antenna on a
small chip.
The receiver is just a few square...
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Location: University of New Hampshire, United States
In a paper published recently in the journal Nature Physics, an international
team of space scientists led by researchers from the University
of New Hampshire present findings on the first experimental...
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Location: Air Force Institute of Technology, Ohio, United States
very soon big brother will be able to follow you to work. Software is being
designed to allow companies to flag up employees who are potential saboteurs,
industrial spies or data thieves. It might also flag up whistle-blowers.
US...
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