Thursday, October 1, 2009

'Smart Drugs' Set To Cause Trouble

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More powerful performance-enhancing drugs are in the pipeline, and may cause serious problems for universities in the future. Credit: iStock...

Raining Pebbles: Rocky Exoplanet Has Bizarre Atmosphere, Simulation Suggests

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The exoplanet COROT-7b is close enough to its star that its "day-face" is hot enough to melt rock. Theoretical models suggest the ...

Loss Of Top Predators Causing Ecosystems To Collapse

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From Live Science: The catastrophic decline around the world of "apex" predators such as wolves, cougars, lions or sharks has led ...

Farmed Out: How Will Climate Change Impact World Food Supplies?

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BLEAK FUTURE?: A new report estimates that climate change will result in 25 million more malnourished children by 2050. © iStockphoto.com / ...

Excavating Ardi: A New Piece For The Puzzle Of Human Evolution

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Image: A artist's rendering of the probable life appearance and skeleton of Ardipithecus ramidus, aka "Ardi" (c) 2009, J.H. M...

High-Res Images of New Territory on Mercury

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From Wired Science: Flying within 228 kilometers of the surface of Mercury on Sept. 29, the Messenger spacecraft snapped portraits of a port...

Will Computer Programs Replace Mozart?

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From Discover Magazine: Meet Emily Howell. She’s a composer who is about to have a CD released of sonatas she composed. So what makes her un...

Asian Quake Could Trigger California's Big One

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Influencing the San Andreas fault line at Parkfield. (Image: David Paul Morris/Getty) From New Scientist: IT'S a kind of geological butt...

Plutonium Shortage Threatens Future Deep Space Missions

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Fuel Shortage Dwindling supplies of plutonium-238, the fuel NASA uses to launch probes into deep space and to power Mars rovers, threaten t...

How to Make Biodiesel With a Commercial Kit

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Senior editor Mike Allen (who used to teach organic chemistry in a previous career) gloves up to pump methanol into the processor. From Popu...

Microsoft Researcher Converts His Brain Into 'E-Memory'

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Photo: Gordon Bell wearing a SenseCam, which automatically records photos throughout the day. From CNN: (CNN) -- For the past decade, Micro...
Wednesday, September 30, 2009

First Intelligent Financial Search Engine Developed

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Financial search engine image. (Credit: Image courtesy of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) From Science Daily: ScienceDaily (Sep. 30, 2009...

Spiritual Women Have More Sex

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From Live Science: Is it sexy to be spiritual? New research has found that spirituality has a greater effect on the sex lives of young adul...

Cleaning Up On Dirty Coal

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Photo: Cheap coal: This demonstration plant in Wilsonville, AL, uses a transport gasifier to turn two tons of cheap, low-quality coal per h...

World Biofuel Use Expected To Double By 2015

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From CNET: Global biofuel use is expected to increase twofold by 2015 and Brazil will remain the world's top exporter of biofuel, accord...

America's 'Most Dangerous Fault'

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From The BBC: It's a big white building on Mission Boulevard. You can't miss it; the Art Deco style is really striking. The grass is...

Being Stephen Hawking

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Stephen Hawking From Discovery: Sir John Maddox, twice the editor of the journal Nature, was one of the most thoughtful voices in science jo...

Why The Mafia Study Gangster Movies

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From The Guardian: Life imitates art as mob members avidly watch The Godfather to find out how to do their jobs. Bada-bing. For some people,...

Dementia Risk Seen in Players in N.F.L. Study

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New England Patriots' linebacker Ted Johnson, left, listens to coach Pepper Johnson during an afternoon training camp in 2001. Charles K...

The Next Generation Of Stealth

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A cloaking device is made of copper rings, each surrounded by 10 layers of meta-material. (© Duke Photography www.dukephoto.duke.edu) Now Yo...