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Science and Galileo - working together
10-16-2007 · European Space Agency (ESA)Galileo is a promising tool for the scientific community, even though it is mainly intended for a set of practical services such as guiding cars, supporting safe aircraft landings or helping blind people to find their way.
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- Rosetta and New Horizons watch Jupiter in joint campaign
03-30-2007 · European Space Agency (ESA)
ESA's Rosetta and NASA's New Horizons are working together in their joint campaign to observe Jupiter. A preliminary analysis of the data from Rosetta's Alice ultraviolet spectrometer indicates that the data quality is excellent and that good science is expected to follow.
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- Revealing the origins of morality -- good and evil, liberal and conservative
05-17-2007 · EurekAlert!
In a review to be published in the May 18 issue of the journal Science, a University of Virginia social-psychologist, discusses a new consensus scientists are reaching on the origins and mechanisms of morality. Haidt shows how evolutionary, neurological and social-psychological insights are being synthesized. "Putting these three principles together forces us to re-evaluate many of our most cherished notions about ourselves," says Haidt, whose research demonstrates that people generally follow their gut feelings and make up moral reasons afterwards.
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- UCLA's J. Fraser Stoddart, colleagues make interlocked molecules
10-17-2006 · EurekAlert!
An enormous challenge to science is the generation of two individual molecules that are not chemically bound to each other but are mechanically wedged together to form a tight link. A team of British and American researchers has now developed an entire new family of such mutually interlocked molecules and has generated a first example.
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- First out-of-body experience induced in laboratory setting
08-23-2007 · EurekAlert!
A neuroscientist working at University College London has devised the first experimental method to induce an out-of-body experience in healthy participants. In a paper published today in Science, Dr. Henrik Ehrsson, UCL Institute of Neurology, outlines the unique method by which the illusion is created and the implications of its discovery.
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- Online game feeds music search engine project at UC San Diego
09-25-2007 · EurekAlert!
UC San Diego electrical engineers and computer scientists are working together on a computerized system that will make it easy for people who are not music experts (like the senior author's mom) to find the kind of music they want to listen to -- without knowing the names of artists or songs.
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- UCSD computer scientists take the 'why' out of WiFi
09-04-2007 · EurekAlert!
UCSD computer scientists have designed a system that automatically analyzes the behavior of all the WiFi connections in the UCSD computer science building. "In the end, we can say 'it's because of this that your wireless is slow or has stopped working' -- and we can tell you immediately," said computer science professor Stefan Savage, a senior author on the paper presented last week in Kyoto, Japan, at ACM SIGCOMM, the premier computer networking conference.
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- Delft researchers unravel the working of the bicycle
09-20-2007 · EurekAlert!
For nearly 150 years, scientists have been baffled by the bicycle. How is it possible that a moving bicycle can, all by itself, be so stable? Researchers of the Delft University of Technology, working with colleagues from Cornell University and the University of Nottingham, UK, believe they have now found the ultimate model of the bicycle. The researchers discuss their findings in the new edition of Delft Outlook, the science magazine of TU Delft.
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- New telomere discovery could help explain why cancer cells never stop dividing
10-04-2007 · EurekAlert!
A group working at the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research in collaboration with the University of Pavia has discovered that telomeres, the repeated DNA-protein complexes at the end of chromosomes that progressively shorten every time a cell divides, also contain RNA. This discovery, published online Oct. 4 in Science Express, calls into question our understanding of how telomeres function, and may provide a new avenue of attack for stopping telomere renewal in cancer cells.
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- MIT device draws cells close -- but not too close -- together
03-29-2007 · EurekAlert!
In a popular children's game participants stand as close as possible without touching. But on a microscopic level, coaxing cells to be very, very close without actually touching one another has been among the most frustrating challenges for cell biologists. Now MIT researchers led by Sangeeta Bhatia, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, have solved the problem with a novel device.
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- Nanoparticle exposures happen, says expert
10-11-2007 · EurekAlert!
Some nanotechnology fanciers suggest that, like proverbial birds of a feather, engineered nanoscale materials will flock -- or clump -- together. This tendency, they maintain, should reduce or eliminate risks as nanotechnology manufacturing increases and the number of nanotechnology-enabled products grows. Think again, cautions nanoparticle expert Andrew Maynard, chief science advisor to the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, in a new article written for the UK's SAFENANO Initiative.
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