Boeing’s ‘lightest metal ever’ is 99.99% air, must be seen to be believed
We live in an age of technological marvels, from the computers we carry around in our pockets to the connected homes we live in, but there’s hardly time to sit back and admire our achievements when another one is just around the corner....
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Boeing’s ‘lightest metal ever’ is 99.99% air, must be seen to be believedWe live in an age of technological marvels, from the computers we carry around in our pockets to the connected homes we live in, but there’s hardly time to sit back and admire our achievements when another one is just around the corner....ScienceOctober 15, 2015, 0:52:20Boeing’s ‘lightest metal ever’ is 99.99% air, must be seen to be believedsource: https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/boeing-lightest-metal-ever-99-99-air-must-030032588.html | October 15, 2015, 0:52:20
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Mars secret revealed: First "unambiguous" signs of water
Researchers using data from a NASA satellite orbiting Mars said Monday they have found clear evidence of intermittent flows of salty water on the Red Planet, the first "unambiguous" signs of liquid water on the frigid world and a possible indicator of microbe-friendly environments below the surface....
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Mars secret revealed: First "unambiguous" signs of waterResearchers using data from a NASA satellite orbiting Mars said Monday they have found clear evidence of intermittent flows of salty water on the Red Planet, the first "unambiguous" signs of liquid water on the frigid world and a possible indicator of microbe-friendly environments below the surface....ScienceOctober 11, 2015, 15:25:37Mars secret revealed: First "unambiguous" signs of watersource: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mars-secret-revealed-first-unambiguous-signs-of-water/ | October 11, 2015, 15:25:37
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NASA lays out three-phase plan for putting astronauts on Mars
The path to Mars goes through the moon -- or the region of space near the moon, anyway. NASA aims to put boots on Mars in the 2030s after first gathering human-spaceflight experience and expertise in low Earth orbit and the "proving ground" of cis-lunar space near the moon....
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NASA lays out three-phase plan for putting astronauts on MarsThe path to Mars goes through the moon -- or the region of space near the moon, anyway. NASA aims to put boots on Mars in the 2030s after first gathering human-spaceflight experience and expertise in low Earth orbit and the "proving ground" of cis-lunar space near the moon....ScienceOctober 11, 2015, 15:23:25NASA lays out three-phase plan for putting astronauts on Marssource: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nasa-lays-out-three-phase-plan-for-putting-astronauts-on-mars/ | October 11, 2015, 15:23:25
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Why elephants rarely get cancer - and what we can learn from them
Dr. Joshua D. Schiffman, a pediatric oncologist, was on a normal trip to Salt Lake City's Hogle Zoo in 2012 with his three children when he stumbled across an unlikely source of inspiration that would feed his current cancer research - elephant blood. The zoo's elephant caretaker Eric Peterson was explaining how the animals flap their large ears in order to circulat...
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Why elephants rarely get cancer - and what we can learn from themDr. Joshua D. Schiffman, a pediatric oncologist, was on a normal trip to Salt Lake City's Hogle Zoo in 2012 with his three children when he stumbled across an unlikely source of inspiration that would feed his current cancer research - elephant blood. The zoo's elephant caretaker Eric Peterson was explaining how the animals flap their large ears in order to circulat...ScienceOctober 11, 2015, 15:22:55Why elephants rarely get cancer - and what we can learn from themsource: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/elephants-rarely-develop-cancer-could-hint-at-future-breakthroughs/ | October 11, 2015, 15:22:55
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The Crazy Hammer They're Sending to Mars
Space missions evoke some of the biggest questions humans can ask. How did we get here? Are we alone in the universe? You know, the usuals. But to even begin to answer these questions, scientists have to piece together the tiniest details, by making unbelievably precise measurements with crazy-imaginative technologies....
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The Crazy Hammer They're Sending to MarsSpace missions evoke some of the biggest questions humans can ask. How did we get here? Are we alone in the universe? You know, the usuals. But to even begin to answer these questions, scientists have to piece together the tiniest details, by making unbelievably precise measurements with crazy-imaginative technologies....ScienceOctober 10, 2015, 16:43:51The Crazy Hammer They're Sending to Marssource: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/10/the-crazy-hammer-theyre-sending-to-mars/409156/ | October 10, 2015, 16:43:51
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Uniqlo is using neuroscience to help you find the perfect shirt
On Wednesday, the Japanese clothing brand launched a new experience in its Pitt Street store in Sydney, Australia that aims to use neuroscience to help match customers' moods with the perfect T-shirt. Tracy Lang, Uniqlo Australia's marketing director, told reporters Tuesday the technology, called "UMood" was an Australian-first....
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Uniqlo is using neuroscience to help you find the perfect shirtOn Wednesday, the Japanese clothing brand launched a new experience in its Pitt Street store in Sydney, Australia that aims to use neuroscience to help match customers' moods with the perfect T-shirt. Tracy Lang, Uniqlo Australia's marketing director, told reporters Tuesday the technology, called "UMood" was an Australian-first....ScienceOctober 7, 2015, 2:46:45Uniqlo is using neuroscience to help you find the perfect shirtsource: http://mashable.com/2015/10/06/uniqlo-neuroscience-australia-tshirts/#lTzGgjVSi5qa | October 7, 2015, 2:46:45
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Physicists win Nobel for finding neutrinos, burdened with mass, aren't so fleeting a
In 1960, physicists could agree with John Updike when he wrote in his poem "Cosmic Gall" that, "Neutrinos, they are very small / They have no size and have no mass." But on Tuesday, two physicists won the Nobel Prize for proving that poem -- and more than 50 years of scientific belief -- to be wrong....
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Physicists win Nobel for finding neutrinos, burdened with mass, aren't so fleeting aIn 1960, physicists could agree with John Updike when he wrote in his poem "Cosmic Gall" that, "Neutrinos, they are very small / They have no size and have no mass." But on Tuesday, two physicists won the Nobel Prize for proving that poem -- and more than 50 years of scientific belief -- to be wrong....ScienceOctober 7, 2015, 2:39:36Physicists win Nobel for finding neutrinos, burdened with mass, aren't so fleeting asource: http://www.cnet.com/news/physicists-win-nobel-for-finding-that-neutrino-particles-burdened-with-mass-arent-so-fleeting-after/ | October 7, 2015, 2:39:36
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What It's Like to Fly Into the Eye of a Hurricane
Half a century ago, the journalist Edward R. Murrow climbed into a modified bomber aircraft and rode it straight into the eye of Hurricane Edna, a storm that eventually slammed into Massachusetts and killed 20 people. Murrow’s flight was with the Air Force Weather Service, and the next day he recounted the experience in gorgeous, vivid detail for his radio audience....
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What It's Like to Fly Into the Eye of a HurricaneHalf a century ago, the journalist Edward R. Murrow climbed into a modified bomber aircraft and rode it straight into the eye of Hurricane Edna, a storm that eventually slammed into Massachusetts and killed 20 people. Murrow’s flight was with the Air Force Weather Service, and the next day he recounted the experience in gorgeous, vivid detail for his radio audience....ScienceOctober 2, 2015, 16:36:51What It's Like to Fly Into the Eye of a Hurricanesource: http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/10/what-its-like-to-fly-into-a-hurricane/408646/ | October 2, 2015, 16:36:51
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Keeping cells in good shape
The Cell Shape and Expression, or Cytospace, investigation examined how physical forces -- including shear stress, stiffness, surface tension, and gravity -- change the relationships among these proteins, interfering with cell architecture and changing the geometric form, or shape, of the cell....
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Keeping cells in good shapeThe Cell Shape and Expression, or Cytospace, investigation examined how physical forces -- including shear stress, stiffness, surface tension, and gravity -- change the relationships among these proteins, interfering with cell architecture and changing the geometric form, or shape, of the cell....ScienceOctober 2, 2015, 16:35:27Keeping cells in good shapesource: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150928082156.htm | October 2, 2015, 16:35:27
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Crunching numbers: Math equations help build optimal bird wing
A researcher uses numbers to show how to build the best wing or fin. Specifically, he wanted to know how flexible the wings or fins should be, so that if an engineer designed a flying or swimming drone, they could create the most effective one possible....
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Crunching numbers: Math equations help build optimal bird wingA researcher uses numbers to show how to build the best wing or fin. Specifically, he wanted to know how flexible the wings or fins should be, so that if an engineer designed a flying or swimming drone, they could create the most effective one possible....ScienceOctober 2, 2015, 16:34:36Crunching numbers: Math equations help build optimal bird wingsource: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150928155903.htm | October 2, 2015, 16:34:36
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Do patients with age-related macular degeneration have trouble with touch screens?
Older adults with central vision loss caused by age-related macular degeneration (AMD) have no problem with accuracy in performing touch screen tasks, according to a study in the October issue of Optometry and Vision Science, official journal of the American Academy of Optometry. The journal is published by Wolters Kluwer....
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Do patients with age-related macular degeneration have trouble with touch screens?Older adults with central vision loss caused by age-related macular degeneration (AMD) have no problem with accuracy in performing touch screen tasks, according to a study in the October issue of Optometry and Vision Science, official journal of the American Academy of Optometry. The journal is published by Wolters Kluwer....ScienceSeptember 24, 2015, 23:44:31Do patients with age-related macular degeneration have trouble with touch screens?source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150924124043.htm | September 24, 2015, 23:44:31
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Microscopic Robot Fish Could Shape The Future Of Medicine
Could recently developed tiny robot fish shape the future of medicine? Here's why the latest in nanoscience has fins and a tail. Video provided by Newsy...
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Microscopic Robot Fish Could Shape The Future Of MedicineCould recently developed tiny robot fish shape the future of medicine? Here's why the latest in nanoscience has fins and a tail. Video provided by Newsy...ScienceSeptember 24, 2015, 23:37:44Microscopic Robot Fish Could Shape The Future Of Medicinesource: http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/bb6a4e8c3a3a313dc060de64da8126b7.htm | September 24, 2015, 23:37:44
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The Surprising Physics of Pulling a Bike With a Rubber Band
DO YOU NEED some practice with force diagrams for your introductory (or advanced) physics course? Here are three questions (and the last one is awesome) about the motion of a bike as it is pulled....
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The Surprising Physics of Pulling a Bike With a Rubber BandDO YOU NEED some practice with force diagrams for your introductory (or advanced) physics course? Here are three questions (and the last one is awesome) about the motion of a bike as it is pulled....ScienceSeptember 22, 2015, 3:44:29The Surprising Physics of Pulling a Bike With a Rubber Bandsource: http://www.wired.com/2015/09/surprising-physics-pulling-bike-rubber-band/ | September 22, 2015, 3:44:29
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Understanding of complex networks could help unify gravity and quantum mechanics
Mathematicians investigating one of science's great questions -- how to unite the physics of the very big with that of the very small -- have discovered that when the understanding of complex networks such as the brain or the Internet is applied to geometry the results match up with quantum behavior....
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Understanding of complex networks could help unify gravity and quantum mechanicsMathematicians investigating one of science's great questions -- how to unite the physics of the very big with that of the very small -- have discovered that when the understanding of complex networks such as the brain or the Internet is applied to geometry the results match up with quantum behavior....ScienceSeptember 13, 2015, 4:2:58Understanding of complex networks could help unify gravity and quantum mechanicssource: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150910084602.htm | September 13, 2015, 4:2:58
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Think Like a Tree: What We Can Learn From the Oaks That Survived Katrina
TEN YEARS AGO this week, Hurricane Katrina ripped through New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, bringing floods and gale-force winds that devastated the region and displaced more than a million people. But New Orleans’ live oaks were surprisingly resilient, as biologist Janine Benyus describes in our first episode of a new video series on biomimicry, Think Like a Tree....
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Think Like a Tree: What We Can Learn From the Oaks That Survived KatrinaTEN YEARS AGO this week, Hurricane Katrina ripped through New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, bringing floods and gale-force winds that devastated the region and displaced more than a million people. But New Orleans’ live oaks were surprisingly resilient, as biologist Janine Benyus describes in our first episode of a new video series on biomimicry, Think Like a Tree....ScienceAugust 26, 2015, 17:42:19Think Like a Tree: What We Can Learn From the Oaks That Survived Katrinasource: http://www.wired.com/2015/08/think-like-tree-learning-oaks-survived-katrina/ | August 26, 2015, 17:42:19
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Understanding The $100 Million Search For Intelligent Alien Life
The project is called Breakthrough Listen and to those who are dedicated to this line of work, this money is a godsend, as funding for alien hunting has become harder and harder to find. Years of battling for funds, fighting critics about why we search for life, and hearing nothing but silence from our celestial neighbors makes this line of work trying....
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Understanding The $100 Million Search For Intelligent Alien LifeThe project is called Breakthrough Listen and to those who are dedicated to this line of work, this money is a godsend, as funding for alien hunting has become harder and harder to find. Years of battling for funds, fighting critics about why we search for life, and hearing nothing but silence from our celestial neighbors makes this line of work trying....ScienceAugust 17, 2015, 0:43:15Understanding The $100 Million Search For Intelligent Alien Lifesource: http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/16/building-a-phone-for-et/ | August 17, 2015, 0:43:15
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