ESO's New Technology Telescope has been used to find the first evidence that asteroids can have a highly varied internal structure. By making measurements astronomers have found that different parts of the asteroid Itokawa have different ...
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Omega Appliances has launched a new website to assist consumers in finding the right product for them and then to direct them to their nearest retailer for purchase. Located at?omegaappliances.com.au, the site showcases the brand's ...
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Nearly 30 years after the discovery of high-temperature superconductivity, many questions remain, but an Oak Ridge National Laboratory team is providing insight that could lead to better superconductors. Their work, published in Physical ...
Scientists at the University of California, San Diego have developed a new genetic platform that allows efficient production of naturally occurring molecules, and have used it to produce a novel antibiotic compound. Their study, published ...
Images gathered by University of Oregon scientists using seismic waves penetrating to a depth of 300 kilometers (almost 200 miles) report the discovery of an anomaly that likely is the volcanic mantle plume of the Galapagos Islands. It's ...
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Biologists have studied the functionality of a poorly understood category of genes, which produce long non-coding RNA molecules rather than proteins. Some of these genes have been conserved throughout evolution, and are present in 11 ...
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In a laboratory under a mountain 80 miles east of Rome this fall, a Princeton-led international team switched on a new experiment aimed at finding a mysterious substance that makes up a quarter of the universe but has never been seen. The ...
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One of the most ambitious missions in the history of space goes into high-risk mode on Monday when Europe rouses a comet-chasing probe from years of hibernation. "The most important alarm clock in the Solar System" will end the scout ...
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But in making the most precise measurements ever of the shape of electrons, a team of Harvard and Yale scientists, led by Harvard's Gerald Gabrielse, the George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Physics, John Doyle, professor of physics, and ...
Tags: Higgs boson, shape of electrons, Standard Model, theory of nature
Superconducting materials exhibit unexpected behaviors when subjected to magnetic fields or high pressures –discoveries that have implications for controlling electrons in those special materials. According to two studies, one ...
Tags: Cerium-Colbalt-Indium5, superconductivity, magnetism, electrons
Late this month, ESA's Mars Express will make the closest flyby yet of the Red Planet's largest moon Phobos, skimming past at only 45 km above its surface. The flyby on 29 December will be so close and fast that Mars Express will not be ...
A mysterious fever that has popped up in Chennai, India, has left doctors puzzled as they try to figure out how to treat it. Doctors say tests for various infectious diseases come up negative for patients with the fever, so it has been ...
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Creative commons founder Lawrence "Larry" Lessig has accused Apple of deleting messages from its user forums that criticise an apparent Wi-Fi disabling software bug in iOS 7. Writing on his blog, Lessig described his "astonishment" in ...
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The people of China have a long held belief that they are descendents of the dragon, a tradition that is firmly embedded in their culture and one that is encountered across all aspects of Chinese society and in the minds of its people. ...
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These mysterious light installations were created by the artist and photographer Artist Barry Underwood. He installs on-site light sculptures in forests, mountainsides, lakes and rivers and manipulates the photo by altering the vista ...
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