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'Star Trek' Warp Speed? Physicists Have New Idea That Could Make It So
With the new movie 'Star Trek'
opening in theaters across the
nation, one thing movie goers will
undoubtedly see is the Starship
Enterprise racing across the
galaxy at the speed of light. But
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Small Brain Of Dwarf 'Hobbit' Explained By Hippo's Island Life
Ancient Madagascan hippos have
shed light on the origins of the
small brain of the 1-metre-tall
human, known as the hobbit. By
examining the skulls of extinct
Madagascan hippos, scientists
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Refined Hubble Constant Narrows Possible Explanations For Dark Energy
Whatever dark energy is,
explanations for it have less
wiggle room following a Hubble
Space Telescope observation that
has refined the measurement of the
universe's present expansion rate
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Brain Cell Mechanism For Decision Making Also Underlies Judgment About Certainty
Researchers who study how the
brain makes decisions are
uncovering the biological
mechanisms behind the belief that
a choice is likely to be correct.
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Bioelectricity Promises More 'Miles Per Acre' Than Ethanol
Biofuels such as ethanol offer an
alternative to petroleum for
powering our cars, but growing
energy crops to produce them can
compete with food crops for
farmland, and clearing forests to
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World's Most Unusual Volcano: Origin Of Carbon-based Lavas Revealed
Scientists studying the world's
most unusual volcano have
discovered the reason behind its
unique carbon-based lavas. The new
geochemical analyses reveals that
an extremely small degree of
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Babies Brainier Than Many Imagine
A new study shows what many
mothers already know: babies are a
lot smarter than others may
realize. Though only five months
old, the study's cuties indicated
through their curious stares that
they could differentiate water in
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Low Cost, Dexterous Robotic Hand Operated By Compressed Air
Scientists have developed a unique
robotic hand that can firmly hold
objects as heavy as a can of food
or as delicate as a raw egg, while
dexterous enough to gesture for
sign language. ... > full story
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Rise Of Oxygen Caused Earth's Earliest Ice Age
Earth's earliest ice ages may have
been due to the rise of oxygen in
Earth's atmosphere, which consumed
atmospheric greenhouse gases and
chilled the earth. A team of
scientists from Germany, South
Africa, Canada, and the US have
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Physicists Create World's Smallest Incandescent Lamp
Physicists have created the
world's smallest incandescent lamp
using a filament made from a
single carbon nanotube only 100
atoms wide. Invisible to the
untrained eye, the filament
appears as a tiny point of light
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- Star Trek Warp Speed? New Idea Could Make It So
- Small 'Hobbit' Brain Explained By Hippo Skull
- Possible Explanations For Dark Energy?
- Brain's Decision Mechanism Underlies Certainty
- Bio-electricity More Promising Than Ethanol
- Unusual Volcano: Carbon-based Lavas Explained
- Babies Brainier Than Many Imagine
- Dexterous Robotic Hand Moved By Compressed Air
- Rise Of Oxygen Caused Earth's Earliest Ice Age
- World's Smallest Incandescent Lamp
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