New Evidence Suggests Need to Rewrite Bronze Age History May 01, 2006 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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Separated in history by 100 years, the seafaring Minoans of Crete and the mercantile Canaanites of northern Egypt and the Levant (a large area of the Middle East) at the eastern end of the Mediterranean were never considered ... | |
 Traffic jam mystery solved by mathematicians December 19, 2007 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 363 vote(s)
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Mathematicians from the University of Exeter have solved the mystery of traffic jams by developing a model to show how major delays occur on our roads, with no apparent cause. Many traffic jams leave drivers ... | |
 Cow Backpacks Trap Methane Gas July 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 96 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In an attempt to understand the extent of cow flatulence on global warming, scientists in Argentina are strapping plastic bags to the backs of cows to capture their emissions. | |
 The new shape of music: Music has its own geometry, researchers find April 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 137 vote(s)
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The connection between music and mathematics has fascinated scholars for centuries. More than 200 years ago Pythagoras reportedly discovered that pleasing musical intervals could be described using simple ... | |
The good news in our DNA: Defects you can fix with vitamins and minerals June 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 108 vote(s)
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As the cost of sequencing a single human genome drops rapidly, with one company predicting a price of $100 per person in five years, soon the only reason not to look at your "personal genome" will be fear of what bad news ... | |
 Indians predated Newton 'discovery' by 250 years August 13, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 227 vote(s)
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A little known school of scholars in southwest India discovered one of the founding principles of modern mathematics hundreds of years before Newton according to new research. | |
Humans hot, sweaty, natural-born runners April 16, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 197 vote(s)
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Hairless, clawless, and largely weaponless, ancient humans used the unlikely combination of sweatiness and relentlessness to gain the upper hand over their faster, stronger, generally more dangerous animal prey, Harvard Anthropology ... | |
 Researchers develop inexpensive, easy process to produce solar panels July 18, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 221 vote(s)
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Researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology have developed an inexpensive solar cell that can be painted or printed on flexible plastic sheets. | |
A dash of lime -- a new twist that may cut CO2 levels back to pre-industrial levels July 21, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 136 vote(s)
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Scientists say they have found a workable way of reducing CO2 levels in the atmosphere by adding lime to seawater. And they think it has the potential to dramatically reverse CO2 accumulation in the atmosphere, reports Cath ... | |
 Logo Can Make You 'Think Different' March 18, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 89 vote(s)
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Whether you are a Mac person or a PC person, even the briefest exposure to the Apple logo may make you behave more creatively, according to recent research from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and ... | |
Blue-eyed humans have a single, common ancestor January 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 98 vote(s)
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New research shows that people with blue eyes have a single, common ancestor. A team at the University of Copenhagen have tracked down a genetic mutation which took place 6-10,000 years ago and is the cause of the eye colour ... | |
Genetic 'telepathy'? A bizarre new property of DNA January 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 97 vote(s)
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Scientists are reporting evidence that intact, double-stranded DNA has the “amazing” ability to recognize similarities in other DNA strands from a distance. And then like friends with similar interests, the bits of genetic ... | |
 Free software brings affordability, transparency to mathematics December 06, 2007 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 89 vote(s)
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Until recently, a student solving a calculus problem, a physicist modeling a galaxy or a mathematician studying a complex equation had to use powerful computer programs that cost hundreds or thousands of dollars. ... | |
 Understanding Algae As An Alternative Fuel Source: Will The Real Algae X Please Stand Up September 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 55 vote(s)
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The recent creation of AXI, LLC is an alliance between Allied Minds, Inc. a seed investment company and the University of Washington. The alliance came about because of Professor Rose Ann Cattolico PhD, an ... | |
 Alligator blood may put the bite on antibiotic-resistant infections April 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 70 vote(s)
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Despite their reputation for deadly attacks on humans and pets, alligators are wiggling their way toward a new role as potential lifesavers in medicine, biochemists in Louisiana reported today at the 235th ... | |
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