Thursday, October 8, 2009

'Significant Risk' Of Oil Production Peaking In Ten Years, Report Finds

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Offshore oil rig at sunset. (Credit: iStockphoto/Kristian Stensønes) From Science Daily: Science Daily (Oct. 8, 2009) — A new report, launch...

New Shroud of Turin Evidence: A Closer Look

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From Live Science: An Italian scientist and his team claim to have replicated the Shroud of Turin, believed by many to be the burial cloth o...

Unmanned Helicopter Hunts Drug Smugglers

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From Popular Mechanics: The Fire Scout unmanned helicopter got its first job—hunting drug smugglers. MQ-8B became the first unmanned helo t...

Electron Microscopes Powered by Quantum Mechanics Could See Through Living Cells

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Butterfly Wing Under an Electron Microscope MIT and NSF From Popular Science: Electron microscopes are great and all, but the problem is t...

Make Your Own Barcode, Just Like Google

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Can you decode our secret message? (http://www.barcodesinc.com) From the Christian Science Monitor: What’s black and white and read all ove...

Learning A Musical Instrument Helps To Boost Children's Memory

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Children playing musical instruments in Scotland. Photograph: Murdo Macleod/Murdo Macleod From Times Online: Learning a musical instrument i...

England Footballers Miss Penalties As They See The Goal As Smaller Than Their Rivals

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From The Telegraph: England footballers have been handed another excuse for why they keep missing penalties – they perceive the goalmouth as...

Albatross-cam Reveals Amazing Relationship Between Birds And A Killer Whale

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A rookery of albatrosseses glide behind a killer whale, which churned up food scraps from the deep From The Daily Mail: Albatrosses have bee...

Private Space Technology Powers Up

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Photo: Rocket science: Franklin Chang Diaz (top) is a former NASA astronaut and founder of Ad Astra Rocket Company. The company has develop...

DNA Sequencing In A Holey New Way

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DNA molecules will be held in place by tiny voltages within the nanohole From The BBC: IBM will announce on Tuesday how it intends to hold D...
Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Do Dust Particles Curb Climate Change?

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Every cloud is different from the next. It is therefore important to study the types of cloud systems in which aerosols have the greatest in...

Underground City Envisioned In Nevada

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This illustration depicts how urban life would be among the water bank canals of an underground city. Credit: Andrew Kudless (Design), Nenad...

Astronomers Discover Solar System's Largest Planetary Ring Yet Around Saturn

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RING LEADER: An artist's conception of the faint, newfound ring around Saturn. The ring dwarfs the scale of the familiar system of rings...

Anatomy Of A Dying Star

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White Dwarf A simulation of a star's final hours may help scientists uncover what triggers its death. The program simulated the death of...

Google’s Abandoned Library Of 700 Million Titles

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From Epicenter: Imagine a world where Google sucks. It might seem a stretch. The Google logo is practically an icon of functionality. Google...

Chemical In Sperm 'May Slow Ageing Process'

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The secret of eternal youth? Photo: GETTY/AFP From The Telegraph: Researchers in Austria say that human sperm might be the next weapon in...

Taking The Pill For Last 40 Years 'Has Put Women Off Masculine Men'

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From The Daily Mail: It ushered in the 1960s sexual revolution and gave women control over their own fertility. But according to a new study...

Military Robots To Get A Virtual Touch

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Photo: The Packbot Explorer From Technology Review: A modified game controller will give military bomb-disposal experts remote touch. iRobo...

Why Minds Are Not Like Computers

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From The New Atlantis: People who believe that the mind can be replicated on a computer tend to explain the mind in terms of a computer. Whe...

Russia Plots Return To Venus

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The Venera missions produced tantalising images of the Venusian surface. From The BBC: Densely clouded in acid-laden mist, Venus used to be ...