(PhysOrg.com) -- Half of the globe has warmed at least one half of one degree Fahrenheit (0.3 C) in the past 30 years, while half of that -- a full quarter of the globe -- warmed at least one full degree Fahrenheit (0.6 C), ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 11, 2008
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A keystone of evolutionary history, the Thermopolis Archaeopteryx fossil, has come to the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to undergo a revolutionary type of analysis. ...
Archaeology
Dec 11, 2008
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Forty years ago, Stanford researcher Doug Engelbart got a standing ovation in a San Francisco auditorium after dramatically introducing the computer mouse, hyperlinks, live text editing and interactive computing ...
Other
Dec 11, 2008
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Where natural disasters strike, political corruption is soon to follow, say the authors of a study in the Journal of Law and Economics. But it's not the wind and rain that turns good folks bad; it's the money that floods ...
Other
Dec 11, 2008
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You really can learn a lot from a dummy. For decades, automakers have been crashing test dummies to gain insight to how various auto safety systems protect – or fail to protect – people during car accidents. But those ...
Engineering
Dec 11, 2008
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Since the days of Leonardo da Vinci people have tried to build machines that fly with flapping wings like a bird or an insect. Even in the jet age the idea remains attractive because such machines could be ...
Engineering
Dec 11, 2008
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Today Addonics announced their NAS (network attached storage) adapter, a low-cost way to add USB storage devices onto a local area network. The NAS adapter will permit USB storage devices shared by any network ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Queensland research has found one of Australia's iconic animals is not a shadow of its former self.
Dec 11, 2008
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The James Webb Space Telescope, targeted for launch in 2013, is already taking an incredible journey right here on Earth. It's zigzagging up, down, and across the US to be "spit and polished" to perfection for its lofty space ...
Space Exploration
Dec 11, 2008
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(PhysOrg.com) -- No longer just an expensive ornament, diamonds are now of a sufficient size and quality to attract the eye of a team of physicists at Macquarie University, who are using them to develop a new more powerful ...
Condensed Matter
Dec 11, 2008
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