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Monthly Archives: April 2012
Microsoft invests in Barnes and Noble’s Nook e-books
Microsoft has invested $300m (£185m) in a digital venture with US bookseller Barnes and Noble. The deal could make Barnes and Noble’s Nook e-book reader available to millions of new customers, integrating it with the Microsoft’s new Windows 8 operating system. The … Continue reading
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Billionaire to Build Titanic II
One of Australia’s richest men, Clive Palmer, on Monday unveiled plans to build a 21st century version of the doomed Titanic in China, with its first voyage from England to New York set for 2016. Palmer, a self-made mining billionaire, said … Continue reading
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Galileo Galilei
Galileo was a hugely influential Italian astronomer, physicist and philosopher. Galileo Galilei was born on 15 February 1564 near Pisa, the son of a musician. He began to study medicine at the University of Pisa but changed to philosophy and … Continue reading
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New direction for weight control
A potential target in the battle against obesity has been discovered: a liver enzyme. Until recently, the liver was not thought to play an important role in controlling body weight. Now, researchers from the University of Melbourne believe they’ve identified a … Continue reading
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Students turn building into game of Tetris
The two-hundred and ninety-five feet (ninety meter) tall Building 54 on MIT’s Cambridge campus has become the canvas for a number of carefully planned and daringly executed visual displays over the years, not strictly allowed by the administration but often … Continue reading
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Phoebe has planet-like qualities
Data from NASA’s Cassini mission reveal Saturn’s moon Phoebe has more planet-like qualities than previously thought. Scientists had their first close-up look at Phoebe when Cassini began exploring the Saturn system in 2004. Using data from multiple spacecraft instruments and … Continue reading
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Anti-fogging, self-cleaning glass that’s free of glare
One of the most instantly recognizable features of glass is the way it reflects light. But a new way of creating surface textures on glass, developed by researchers at MIT, virtually eliminates reflections, producing glass that is almost unrecognisable because of its … Continue reading
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Why are there more than the average ‘lefties’ in sports?
According to a study published recently, it is likely that being the odd one out, as you grow up, gives left-handed people an advantage in many sports having the element of surprise over their opponents. On average, one in 10 people … Continue reading
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TED launches a groundbreaking online education initiative
The folks at TED have announced their new education initiative. They call it “TED-Ed,” and it’s part of a brand new platform designed to “capture and amplify the voice of the world’s greatest teachers” in the form of short, sharp, … Continue reading
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New particle discovered at CERN
Physicists from the University of Zurich have discovered a previously unknown particle composed of three quarks in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator. A new baryon could thus be detected for the first time at the LHC. The baryon … Continue reading
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Intense light prevents and treats heart attacks
There are lots of ways physicians might treat a patient after a heart attack — certain resuscitation methods, aspirin, clot-busters and more. Now University of Colorado medical school researchers have found a new candidate: Intense light. “The study suggests that … Continue reading
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MALTA
A personal appreciation by Alan Mason – Having visited the Maltese Archipelago on holiday, around twenty years ago in the nineties, I found the islands, the people, their history and culture fascinating for a number of reasons; that include the … Continue reading
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History of the Gyroscope
A gyroscope is a device for measuring or maintaining orientation, based on the principles of angular momentum. In essence, a mechanical gyroscope is a spinning wheel or disk whose axle is free to take any orientation. The earliest known gyroscope-like instrument was made by German Johann … Continue reading
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Maintain your brain: The secrets to aging success
Aging may seem unavoidable, but that’s not necessarily so when it comes to the brain. So say researchers in the April 27th issue of the Cell Press journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences explaining that it is what you do in … Continue reading
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Why didn’t the Neanderthals survive?
Until approximately 100,000 years ago, the Neanderthals dominated Europe, but by about 28,000 years ago, they had all but vanished from their last breeding ground in Gibraltar, losing out to Homo sapiens or ‘modern humans’ who arrived from Africa. There are many suggestions as to why … Continue reading
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Cal Academy Butterfly Collection
Butterflies and moths — the lepidopterans — are more than just pretty insects that pollinate plants. They are important research subjects that provide valuable glimpses into evolutionary processes. They provide scientists with important insights into sexual selection, speciation, and the … Continue reading
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Freezing glass may shed light on a great mystery in mathematics
The way in which disorderly systems like glasses freeze could shed light on one of the greatest enigmas in mathematics today. The mystery in question concerns prime numbers, which are essentially the elementary particles of arithmetic — a prime number such … Continue reading
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Plan Aims to Find Mars Life on the Cheap
The Biological Oxidant and Life Detection initiative, nicknamed BOLD, is a direct follow-on to NASA’s foundational 1976 Mars Viking life-detection experiments. ”We have much better technology that we could use,” BOLD lead scientist Dirk Schulze-Makuch, with Washington State University, told Discovery … Continue reading
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Graphene found to emit infrared light
Ever since its discovery in 2004, graphene, the honey-comb arranged sheet of one atom thick carbon atoms, has continued to make waves in both the physics and engineering worlds. Now comes news from yet another research team heralding a new … Continue reading
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