Location: Department of Physics, Syracuse University, United States
Scientists hope that a new supercomputer being built by Syracuse
University's Department of
Physics may help them identify the sound of a...
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Location: Brookhaven National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, United States
In an achievement some see as the "holy grail" of nanoscience,
researchers at the U.S.
Department of Energy's Brookhaven
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Location: University of Illinois, United States
The continuous fabrication of complex, three-dimensional nanoscale structures
and the ability to grow individual nanowires of unlimited length are now
possible with a process developed by researchers at the
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Location: European Southern Observatory, Chile
Astronomers have used European
Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope to measure the distribution
and motions of thousands of galaxies in the...
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Location: University of California, Santa Cruz, United States
A strange and violent fate awaits a white dwarf star that wanders too close
to a moderately massive black hole. According to a new study, the black hole's
gravitational pull on the white dwarf would cause tidal forces sufficient to
disrupt...
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Location: Carnegie Institution’s Geophysical Laboratory, Uruguay
Scientists have discovered that the magnetic strength of magnetite—the most
abundant magnetic mineral on Earth—declines drastically when put under
pressure. Researchers from the Carnegie
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Location: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, DOE, United States
Contrary to expectations for a small icy body, much of the comet dust
returned by the Stardust mission formed very close to the young sun and was
altered from the solar system’s early materials.
When the Stardust mission returned to...
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Location: University of Washington, United States
What if swallowing a pill with a camera could detect
the earliest signs of cancer?
The tiny camera is designed to take high-quality,...
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Location: Cornell University Communications, United States
The Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto
Rico will observe a newly discovered asteroid on Jan. 27-28, as the object
called 2007 TU24 passes within 1.4 lunar...
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Location: School of Engineering and Applied Science, Princeton University, United States
A new technique for printing extraordinarily thin lines quickly over wide
areas could lead to larger, less expensive and more versatile electronic
displays as well new medical devices, sensors and other technologies.
Solving a...
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Location: University of Southern California, United States
Quickly moving your fingertips to tap or press a surface is essential for
everyday life to, say, pick up small objects, use a BlackBerry or an iPhone. But
researchers at the University of
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Location: National Center for Electron Microscopy, Department of Energy, United States
TEAM 0.5, the world's most powerful transmission electron microscope —
capable of producing images with half-angstrom resolution (half a ten-billionth
of a meter), less than the diameter of a single
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Location: University of California, Berkeley, United States
The environmental damage caused by rich nations disproportionately impacts
poor nations and costs them more than their combined foreign debt, according to
a first-ever global accounting of the dollar costs of countries' ecological
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Location: University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
Denizens of oceans, lakes and even wet soil, diatoms are unicellular algae
that encase themselves in intricately patterned, glass-like shells. Curiously,
these tiny phytoplankton could be harboring the next big breakthrough in
computer...
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Location: British Antarctic Survey (BAS), United Kingdom
The first evidence of a volcanic eruption from beneath Antarctica’s most
rapidly changing ice sheet is reported this week in the journal Nature
Geosciences. The volcano on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet erupted 2000 years ago
(325BC) and...
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Location: University of California, Merced, United States
Over the past 85 years, humans have helped shape California climate during certain seasons. But that’s not necessarily good.
Recent research by scientists at the Lawrence Livermore...
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