Like a Doppler weather map with red blotches tracking the paths of major storms, a new tracking software service co-developed by Columbia University computer science professor Tony Jebara instantly shows people where the ...
Computer Sciences
Jun 20, 2008
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A new mass spectrometry test can help sports anti-drug doping officials to detect whether an athlete has used drugs that boost naturally occurring steroid levels. The test is more sensitive compared to previous alternatives, ...
Other
Jun 20, 2008
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Findings of a three-year study by researchers at the University of California, Riverside and the University of Florida, Gainesville run counter to the popular belief that women have better language skills than men.
Other
Jun 20, 2008
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New record in ultrafast metrology: Physicists at Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich are the first to produce light pulses lasting only 80 attoseconds.
Nanophysics
Jun 20, 2008
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[B]Oscillator projected to increase current brightness by millions of times[/B] The future of high-intensity x-ray science has never been brighter now that scientists at U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory ...
General Physics
Jun 20, 2008
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A study of honeybee 'anarchy' has uncovered several regions of the genome that influence cheating behaviour.
Biotechnology
Jun 20, 2008
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[B]Low-income students are in many ways just as technologically savvy as their counterparts[/B] In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers at the University of Minnesota have discovered the educational benefits of social ...
Internet
Jun 20, 2008
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Researchers have found that female red squirrels showed high levels of multimale mating and would even mate with males that had similar genetic relatedness, basically mating with their relatives.
Jun 20, 2008
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For the second time since April, ESA's Jules Verne ATV was used to raise the orbit of the International Space Station yesterday. A record boost from the 20 minute burn of the Automated Transfer Vehicle's main engines successfully ...
Space Exploration
Jun 20, 2008
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Who doesn’t dream of increasingly fast computers that consume less and less energy? To design these computers of the future, it is important to be able to control nanoscale strain in the processors. Until now, this strain ...
Engineering
Jun 20, 2008
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