Neuroscientist helping astronauts sleep better
A new sunrise takes place every 90 minutes. Docking maneuvers sometimes occur at odd hours. Then there's that feeling of apparent weightlessness.
Space Exploration
Jul 29, 2012
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Fake online editorial fools New York Times
The New York Times, which famously insists on the accuracy of its reports, was red faced Sunday after being fooled by a hoax online editorial posted under the name of ex-boss Bill Keller.
Internet
Jul 29, 2012
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Researchers analyze melting glaciers and water resources in Central Asia
As part of the ACQWA European project, coordinated by the Institute of Environmental Sciences at the University of Geneva (UNIGE), researchers from UNIGE collaborated with scientists from the German-speaking part of Switzerland, ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 29, 2012
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Tech titans face off in court over iPhone, iPad
(AP) — Two tech titans will square off in federal court Monday in a closely watched trial over control of the U.S. smart phone and computer tablet markets.
Business
Jul 29, 2012
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Researchers find links between magnetic field inversions, mantle convection and tectonics
On a time scale of tens to hundreds of millions of years, the geomagnetic field may be influenced by currents in the mantle. The frequent polarity reversals of Earth's magnetic field can also be connected with processes in ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 29, 2012
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New discovery of how carbon is stored in the Southern Ocean
A team of British and Australian scientists has discovered an important method of how carbon is drawn down from the surface of the Southern Ocean to the deep waters beneath. The Southern Ocean is an important carbon sink ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 29, 2012
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Giant ice avalanches on Saturn's moon Iapetus provide clue to extreme slippage elsewhere in solar system
Saturn's ice moon Iapetus has more giant landslides than any solar system body other than Mars. Measurements of the avalanches suggest that some mechanism lowered their coefficients of friction so that they flowed rather ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 29, 2012
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Breakthrough in colloidal quantum dot films leads to record efficiency for next-generation solar cells
Researchers from the University of Toronto and King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) have made a breakthrough in the development of colloidal quantum dot (CQD) films, leading to the most efficient CQD solar ...
Nanomaterials
Jul 29, 2012
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Cutting the graphene cake
(Phys.org) -- Researchers at the University of Manchester have demonstrated that graphene can be used as a building block to create new 3D crystal structures which are not confined by what nature can produce.
Nanomaterials
Jul 29, 2012
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Chronic 2000-2004 drought, worst in 800 years, may be the 'new normal': study
The chronic drought that hit western North America from 2000 to 2004 left dying forests and depleted river basins in its wake and was the strongest in 800 years, scientists have concluded, but they say those conditions will ...
Environment
Jul 29, 2012
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