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Slow earthquakes: It’s all in the rock mechanics
Earthquakes that last minutes rather than seconds are a relatively recent discovery, according to an international team of seismologists. Researchers have been aware of these slow earthquakes, only for the past five to 10 years because of new tools and … Continue reading
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The Leaf Cycle
During the spring and summer leaves serve as factories where most of the foods necessary for the tree’s growth are manufactured. The process, known as photosynthesis; takes place in the leaf in numerous cells containing chlorophyll, which gives the leaf … Continue reading
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Particle vs. Antiparticle
Majorana fermion on a chip: Interview with Leo Kouwenhoven. Leo Kouwenhoven is a professor of physics at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. He ended the 75-year hunt for the Majorana fermion—a particle that is its own antiparticle—by creating … Continue reading
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Venus, Jupiter and Mercury Will Dance on May 28
Understanding events in the night sky is much like enjoying a cup of coffee in your favorite coffee shop! For example, right now, a delicious ‘grande’ mug of decaf skinny peppermint latte (it’s really good, you should try it) is … Continue reading
Posted in Cosmology, Uncategorized
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Attacking MRSA with metals from antibacterial clays
In the race to protect society from infectious microbes, the bugs are outrunning us. The need for new therapeutic agents is acute, given the emergence of novel pathogens as well as old foes bearing heightened antibiotic resistance. Shelley Haydel, a … Continue reading
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Kepler’s Planet-Hunting Mission May Be Over
NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler space telescope has shut down due to an apparent problem with its positioning system, suspending indefinitely its science mission, officials said Wednesday. So far, attempts to coax the telescope back into operation have been fruitless. Two of the … Continue reading
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Researchers suggest Victorian-era people more intelligent modern-day counterparts
In a new study, a European research team suggests that the average intelligence level of Victorian-era people was higher than that of modern-day people. They base their controversial assertion on reaction times (RT) to visual stimuli given as tests to … Continue reading
Posted in History, Neuroscience, Science
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The eloquence of the otoliths
Fish fossils that are about 23 million years old give unprecedented insight into the evolutionary history of the gobioid order, one of the most species-rich groups among the modern bony fishes. Researchers led by paleontologist Professor Bettina Reichenbacher from the … Continue reading
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Every burst of star formation can reshape the universe
One of the most violent and wondrous cosmic events is starburst, in which hundreds of millions of stars are born all at once. These are far rarer nowadays than they were in the early universe, but they do still happen… … Continue reading
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Tom Lehrer – The Elements
The recording of Tom Lehrer is from Copenhagen, Denmark, in September 1967.
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Mathematician Makes Astounding Prime Numbers Breakthrough
A partial solution to a centuries-old problem known as the twin prime conjecture now affirms the idea that an infinite number of prime numbers have companions — and that a maximum distance between these pairs does in fact exist. Prime … Continue reading
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Mount Everest’s Glaciers Are Melting
Earth’s global thaw has reached Mount Everest, the world’s tallest peak, researchers said today (May 14) at the Meeting of the Americas in Cancun, Mexico. Glaciers in the Mount Everest region have shrunk by 13 percent in the last 50 … Continue reading
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Untangling the tree of life
These days, phylogeneticists – experts who painstakingly map the complex branches of the tree of life – suffer from an embarrassment of riches. The genomics revolution has given them mountains of DNA data that they can sift through to reconstruct … Continue reading
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Non-inherited mutations account for many heart defects
New mutations that are absent in parents but appear in their offspring account for at least 10% of severe congenital heart disease, reveals a massive genomics study led, in part, by researchers at the Yale School of Medicine. The analysis … Continue reading
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New principle may help explain why nature is quantum
Like small children, scientists are always asking the question ‘why?’. One question they’ve yet to answer is why nature picked quantum physics, in all its weird glory, as a sensible way to behave. Researchers Corsin Pfister and Stephanie Wehner at … Continue reading
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Carnivorous plant throws out ‘junk’ DNA
Genes make up about 2 percent of the human genome. The rest consists of a genetic material known as noncoding DNA, and scientists have spent years puzzling over why this material exists in such voluminous quantities. Now, a new study … Continue reading
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Graphene joins the race to redefine the ampere
A new joint innovation by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and the University of Cambridge could pave the way for redefining the ampere in terms of fundamental constants of physics. The world’s first graphene single-electron pump (SEP), described in a … Continue reading
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Spacewalking repair halts station leak
Astronauts made a rare, hastily planned spacewalk to fix a serious ammonia leak at the International Space Station, and the U.S. space agency said it appeared the repair was a success. But the following weeks will be the test. Authorities have … Continue reading
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