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Part-time pulsar yields new insight into inner workings of cosmic clocks
Astronomers using the 76-m Lovell radio telescope at the University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Observatory have discovered a very strange pulsar that helps explain how pulsars act as 'cosmic clocks' and confirms theories put forward 37 years ago to explain the way in which pulsars emit their... view more (2006-03-03)

Fourth Consecutive Win For Dorling Kindersley As Oceans Scoops Junior Aventis Science Book Prize
A vividly illustrated exploration of life above and below the waves was last night named the winner of the Aventis Prizes for Science Books Junior Prize 2003 - the fourth consecutive year that publisher Dorling Kindersley has scooped the £10,000 prize. Written by Dr Frances Dipper, the DK... view more (2003-06-26)

Duke engineers developing ultrasound devices combining 3-D imaging with therapeutic heating
Duke University engineers are developing technology that may enable physicians to someday use high frequency ultrasound waves both to visualize the heart's interior in three dimensions and then selectively destroy heart tissue with heat to correct arrhythmias.   view more (2005-11-07)

Illegal destruction of coral reefs worsened impact of tsunami
The illegal mining of corals off the southwest coast of Sri Lanka permitted far more onshore destruction from the 26 December 2004 tsunami than occurred in nearby areas whose coral reefs were intact.   view more (2005-08-16)

New 'self-exploding' microcapsules could take sting out of drug delivery
Belgian chemists have developed "self-exploding" microcapsules that could one day precisely release drugs and vaccines inside the human body weeks or even months after injection.   view more (2006-01-04)

Rice University researchers create 'nanorice'
Who better to invent "nanorice" than researchers at Rice University? But marketing and whimsy weren't what motivated the team of engineers, physicists and chemists from Rice's Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP) to make rice-shaped particles of gold and iron oxide.   view more (2006-03-15)

'Electromagnetic Wormhole' Possible with Invisibility Technology
The team of mathematicians that first created the mathematics behind the "invisibility cloak" announced by physicists last October has now shown that the same technology could be used to generate an "electromagnetic wormhole."   view more (2007-10-15)

Scientists observe solitary vibrations in uranium
Los Alamos scientists, working with collaborators from around the world, recently observed experimental evidence of solitary vibrations (solitons) in a solid.   view more (2006-03-31)

Barnacles go to great lengths to mate
Compelled to mate, yet firmly attached to the rock, barnacles have evolved the longest penis of any animal for their size - up to 8 times their body length - so they can find and fertilize distant neighbours.   view more (2008-02-07)

What do Racquel Welch and quantum physics have in common?
The study aims to delve into a 'void' or empty space in which atoms move, which has a large intrinsic energy density known as zero-point energy   view more (2006-06-30)

Limiting stroke damage is focus of study
Brain damage that occurs even days after a stroke, increasing stroke size and devastation, is the focus of researchers trying to identify new treatments.   view more (2007-05-31)

New tool for weather forecasters
A new processing system now operational in ESA ground stations will help weather forecasters to benefit once more from unique all-weather data from the ERS-2 scatterometer. Although the highly successful ERS global mission is formally over, the spacecraft has been continuing to provide coverage... view more (2003-08-26)

Stretchable silicon could be next wave in electronics
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a fully stretchable form of single-crystal silicon with micron-sized, wave-like geometries that can be used to build high-performance electronic devices on rubber substrates.   view more (2005-12-16)

'Missing Beach' Returns to Donegal
The sandy beach at Five-Finger Strand in Donegal has returned as predicted by University of Ulster researchers. The beach, which had lost its sand and for the past several years was an unattractive gravely surface, has now reverted to its former glory. A study, undertaken by the University's... view more (2004-02-19)

Physicist's innovative technique makes atomic-level microscopy at least 100 times faster
Using an existing technique in a novel way, Cornell physicist Keith Schwab and colleagues at Cornell and Boston University have made the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) -- which can image individual atoms on a surface -- at least 100 times faster.   view more (2007-11-09)

Scientists formulate a heat wave survival guide
Scientists from Imperial College London have found a simple solution to city dwellers' despair as temperatures soar during summer heat waves. In a bid to cool down they have to learn how to ventilate and cool rooms by using windows and the building properly.   view more (2003-08-06)

Why do earthquakes stop?
The underlying structure of a fault determines whether an earthquake rupture will jump from one fault to another, magnifying its size and potential devastation.   view more (2008-02-06)

High-resolution images herald new era in Earth sciences
High-resolution images that reveal unexpected details of the Earth's internal structure are among the results reported by MIT and Purdue scientists in the March 30 issue of Science.   view more (2007-04-09)

Significant new method developed for characterizing density wave features
In a paper published in The Astronomical Journal (133:2584-2606, June 2007) Dr. Xiaolei Zhang, of the Naval Research Laboratory, and Dr. Ronald J. Buta, of the University of Alabama, report that they have developed an accurate and widely-applicable method for characterizing density wave features in... view more (2007-07-10)

Scientists use seismic waves to locate missing rock under Tibet
Geologists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have located a huge chunk of Earth's lithosphere that went missing 15 million years ago. By finding the massive block of errant rock beneath Tibet, the researchers are helping solve a long-standing mystery, and clarifying how continents... view more (2007-02-08)

Case closed: MIT gumshoes solve
Hey kids! Try this at home. Pour clean water onto a small plate. Wait for all the ripples to stop.   view more (2007-07-18)

Space Mission Eddington Seeks Out Quaking Stars And Earthlike Planets
Members of the media are invited to attend the meeting. No pre-registration is required, but it would be helpful if advance notice of attendance is given to the RAS press officer, Peter Bond, or to one of the organisers. There may be opportunities for interviews during the morning registration... view more (2002-01-08)

Multi-wavelength images help astronomers study star birth, death
In recent years, a number of ground-based optical and radio surveys of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds - Earth's nearest neighboring galaxies - have become available.   view more (2006-01-12)

European researchers successfully predict a major earthquake
Earthquakes are by far the most deadly natural disasters in the world. Since 1975, they have killed over 340,000 people. Since the beginning of this century, they have caused an average of 20,000 deaths each year. Unfortunately, until recently, there was no reliable scientific technique for... view more (1999-06-24)

UA Physicist Discovers Exotic Superconductivity
A University of Arizona physicist has discovered that powerful magnetic fields change the physical nature of superconductivity.   view more (2006-08-17)
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