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- Magnetic 'force field' shields giant gas cloud during collision with Milky Way
- Former missile-tracking telescope helps reveal fate of baby pulsar
- Houston we have a problem: Microgravity accelerates biological aging
- Underwater robots influence complex swimming behaviors of schooling fish
- Gaming technology unravels one of the most complex entities in nature: Computational research unveils secrets in the human carbohydrate bar-code
- Dogs know a left-sided wag from a right
- Real-time, 3-D teleconferencing technology developed
- Could a Milky Way supernova be visible from Earth in next 50 years?
- Patient in 'vegetative state' not just aware, but paying attention, study suggests
- New recyclable building material, made partially from potatoes, could help solve waste problem
- Seeing in the dark: Most people can see their body's movement in the absence of light
- Giant atom eats quantum gas
- One of the oldest cases of tuberculosis discovered
- New experiments reveal the types of bacteria involved in human decomposition
| Magnetic 'force field' shields giant gas cloud during collision with Milky Way Posted: 31 Oct 2013 12:34 PM PDT Doom may be averted for the Smith Cloud, a gigantic streamer of hydrogen gas that is on a collision course with the Milky Way Galaxy. Astronomers have discovered a magnetic field deep in the cloud's interior, which may protect it during its meteoric plunge into the disk of our Galaxy.  |
| Former missile-tracking telescope helps reveal fate of baby pulsar Posted: 31 Oct 2013 11:29 AM PDT A radio telescope once used to track ballistic missiles has helped astronomers determine how the magnetic field structure and rotation of the young and rapidly rotating Crab pulsar evolves with time.  |
| Houston we have a problem: Microgravity accelerates biological aging Posted: 31 Oct 2013 09:53 AM PDT As nations strive to put humans farther into space for longer periods of time, the real loser in this new space race could be the astronauts themselves. That's because experiments conducted on the International Space Station show that microgravity accelerates cardiovascular disease and the biological aging of these cells.  |
| Underwater robots influence complex swimming behaviors of schooling fish Posted: 31 Oct 2013 09:52 AM PDT Scientists have demonstrated how underwater robots can be used to understand and influence the complex swimming behaviors of schooling fish. Robotic fish have an impact on collective animal behavior.  |
| Posted: 31 Oct 2013 09:52 AM PDT Scientists have used the power of off-the-shelf computer gaming technology to capture previously unobservable atomic movements. The research is helping to chart one of nature's most complex entities known as "glycomes" -- the entire complement of carbohydrates within a cell.  |
| Dogs know a left-sided wag from a right Posted: 31 Oct 2013 09:49 AM PDT You might think a wagging tail is a wagging tail, but for dogs there is more to it than that. Dogs recognize and respond differently when their fellow canines wag to the right than they do when they wag to the left. The findings show that dogs, like humans, have asymmetrically organized brains, with the left and right sides playing different roles.  |
| Real-time, 3-D teleconferencing technology developed Posted: 31 Oct 2013 09:47 AM PDT Engineers have developed 3-D teleconferencing technology that's live, real-time and streaming at 30 frames per second. They say the technology could be ready for smart phones in a few years.  |
| Could a Milky Way supernova be visible from Earth in next 50 years? Posted: 31 Oct 2013 09:46 AM PDT Astronomers have calculated the odds that, sometime during the next 50 years, a supernova occurring in our home galaxy will be visible from Earth. The good news: they've calculated the odds to be nearly 100 percent that such a supernova would be visible to telescopes in the form of infrared radiation. The bad news: the odds are much lower -- dipping to 20 percent or less -- that the shining stellar spectacle would be visible to the naked eye in the nighttime sky.  |
| Patient in 'vegetative state' not just aware, but paying attention, study suggests Posted: 31 Oct 2013 08:05 AM PDT A patient in a seemingly vegetative state, unable to move or speak, showed signs of attentive awareness that had not been detected before, a new study reveals.  |
| New recyclable building material, made partially from potatoes, could help solve waste problem Posted: 31 Oct 2013 08:05 AM PDT A new biodegradable and recyclable form of medium density fibreboard (MDF) has been created that could dramatically reduce the problem of future waste.  |
| Seeing in the dark: Most people can see their body's movement in the absence of light Posted: 31 Oct 2013 06:04 AM PDT With the help of computerized eye trackers, a new cognitive science study finds that at least 50 percent of people can see the movement of their own hand even in the absence of all light.  |
| Posted: 31 Oct 2013 06:03 AM PDT A team of experimental and theoretical physicists has studied a single micrometer-sized atom. This atom contains tens of thousands of normal atoms in its electron orbital.  |
| One of the oldest cases of tuberculosis discovered Posted: 30 Oct 2013 03:59 PM PDT Scientists verify the presence of tuberculosis from 7,000 years ago.  |
| New experiments reveal the types of bacteria involved in human decomposition Posted: 30 Oct 2013 03:59 PM PDT The type of bacteria involved in human decomposition can change over time, according to new research.  |
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