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Earth leaving its orbit
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Apr 01 2008, 12:10 (UTC+0) |  rhevin writes: Report has recently come in from observatories around the world that the Earth has left its normal orbit around the sun. This is thought to be the cause of large gravity waves, emitted from recently abnormal solar storms.
"We don't know much yet, but I would lie if I said I wasn't worried" says one of the leading astronomers in China, who was among the first to discover this disturbing news. More about this can be found at Science Cube
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Chimps' Memories Superior to Those of Humans
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Dec 04 2007, 19:48 (UTC+0) |  Pau1 writes: Chimpanzees have an extraordinary photographic memory that is far superior to ours, research suggests.
Young chimps outperformed university students in memory tests devised by Japanese scientists. The tasks involved remembering the location of numbers on a screen, and correctly recalling the sequence.
"There are still many people, including many biologists, who believe that humans are superior to chimpanzees in all cognitive functions," said lead researcher Tetsuro Matsuzawa of Kyoto University.
"Here we show for the first time that young chimpanzees have an extraordinary working memory capability for numerical recollection - better than that of human adults tested in the same apparatus, following the same procedure."
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Paralysed man's mind is 'read'
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Nov 17 2007, 09:10 (UTC+0) | 
Electrodes were planted in the part of the brain which controls speech |
 Romen writes: Scientists say they may be on the brink of translating into words the thoughts of a man who can no longer speak, after a pioneering experiment.
Electrodes have been implanted in the brain of Eric Ramsay, who has been "locked in" - conscious but paralysed - since a car crash eight years ago.
These have been recording pulses in areas of the brain involved in speech.
Now, New Scientist magazine reports, they are to use the signals he generates to drive speech software.
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Energetic Cosmic Rays May Start From Black Holes
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Nov 11 2007, 15:25 (UTC+0) | | dera writes: They are the zestiest bits of matter in the universe. They can zing through space for millions of years at essentially the speed of light and with 100 million times the energy produced by the biggest particle accelerators on the earth, before crashing occasionally into Earth’s atmosphere and dying in a spray of microscopic fluff. continued... |
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Levitation cracked!
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Aug 13 2007, 19:49 (UTC+0) |  5p1k3 writes: Levitation has been elevated from being pure science fiction to science fact, according to a study reported today by physicists.
In earlier work the same team of theoretical physicists showed that invisibility cloaks are feasible.
Their discovery could ultimately lead to frictionless micro-machines with moving parts that levitate But they say that, in principle at least, the same effect could be used to levitate bigger objects too, even a person.
The Casimir force is a consequence of quantum mechanics, the theory that describes the world of atoms and subatomic particles that is not only the most successful theory of physics but also the most baffling.
The force is due to neither electrical charge or gravity, for example, but the fluctuations in all-pervasive energy fields in the intervening empty space between the objects and is one reason atoms stick together, also explaining a “dry glue” effect that enables a gecko to walk across a ceiling.
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Half a glass of red wine 'protects from cancer'
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Nov 18 2007 - 19:22 GMT | From: dera :
Half a glass of red wine a day could protect you from colon cancer, scientists have discovered. The study found that a diet rich in grapes can help prevent the third most common form of cancer, one that kills more than half a million people worldwide and over 16,000 in Britain every year. Continued... |
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Earth Rise Captured in HD
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Nov 15 2007 - 15:39 GMT | From: mad_scientist :
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) have successfully performed the world's first high-definition image taking of an Earth-rise by the lunar explorer "KAGUYA" (SELENE).
The Apollo project was the first mission to take images of Earth rising over the Moon.
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Heavy metal 'a comfort for the bright child'
@ Lifestyle
May 28 2007 - 11:41 GMT | From: cybersky :
Intelligent teenagers often listen to heavy metal music to cope with the pressures associated with being talented, according to research. The results of a study of more than 1,000 of the brightest five per cent of young people will come as relief to parents whose offspring, usually long-haired, are devotees of Iron Maiden, AC/DC and their musical descendants. Researchers found that, far from being a sign of delinquency and poor academic ability, many adolescent "metalheads" are extremely bright and often use the music to help them deal with the stresses and strains of being gifted social outsiders. Continued |
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From aardvark to zinnia, all of Earth's known species to be cataloged on Web site
@ Computers & IT
May 09 2007 - 23:34 GMT | From: cybersky :
In a whale-sized project, the world's scientists plan to compile everything they know about all of Earth's 1.8 million known species and put it all on one Web site, open to everyone. The effort, called the Encyclopedia of Life, will include species descriptions, pictures, maps, videos, sound, sightings by amateurs, and links to entire genomes and scientific journal papers. Its first pages of information will be shown Wednesday in Washington where the massive effort is being announced by some of the world's leading institutions. The project will take about 10 years to finish. Continued |
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Gene mutation linked to cognition is found only in humans
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May 09 2007 - 23:29 GMT | From: cybersky :
The human and chimpanzee genomes vary by just 1.2 percent, yet there is a considerable difference in the mental and linguistic capabilities between the two species. A new study showed that a certain form of neuropsin, a protein that plays a role in learning and memory, is expressed only in the central nervous systems of humans and that it originated less than 5 million years ago. The study, which also demonstrated the molecular mechanism that creates this novel protein, will be published online in Human Mutation, the official journal of the Human Genome Variation Society. continued... |
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Mathematician shows possibility of invisibility
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May 04 2007 - 22:41 GMT | From: cybersky :
A computer model designed by a mathematician at the University of Liverpool has shown that it is possible to make objects, such as aeroplanes and submarines, appear invisible at close range.continued... |
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