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Video Cameras Learn From Insect Eyes
September 1, 2006 The bane of all wedding videos -- that picture of the bride in front of the window where her face is so dark that you can't see the features -- may soon be a thing of the past. By mimicking how ... > full story -
NASA Finds Direct Proof Of Dark Matter
August 21, 2006 Dark matter and normal matter have been wrenched apart by the tremendous collision of two large clusters of galaxies. The discovery, using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes, gives ... > full story -
Astronomers Discover Rapidly Forming, Large Proto-Disc Galaxies 3 Billion Years After Big Bang
August 19, 2006 Astronomers have discovered large disc galaxies akin to our Milky Way that must have formed on a rapid time scale, only 3 billion years after the Big Bang. In one of these systems, the combination of ... > full story -
NASA Findings Suggest Jets Bursting From Martian Ice Cap
August 17, 2006 Every spring brings violent eruptions to the south polar ice cap of Mars, according to researchers interpreting new observations by NASA's Mars Odyssey ... > full story -
Cassini Finds Lakes On Titan's Arctic Region
July 28, 2006 NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found lakes on Saturn's moon Titan. The lakes are most likely the source of hydrocarbon smog in the frigid moon's atmosphere. Finding the source of the complex soup of ... > full story -
Skin Cancer Rare -- But More Deadly -- In People With Darker Skin
July 27, 2006 New University of Cincinnati research shows that dark-skinned people -- commonly thought to be "immune" to most skin cancers -- are more likely than whites to die from skin cancer and its related ... > full story -
Rice Scientists Unveil 'Nanoegg'
July 21, 2006 Researchers at Rice University's Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP) have unveiled the "nanoegg," the latest addition to their family ultrasmall, light-focusing particles. A cousin of the versatile ... > full story -
Rare Blob Unveiled: Evidence For Hydrogen Gas Falling Onto A Dark Matter Clump?
July 3, 2006 ESO's VLT has helped scientists to discover a large primordial 'blob', more than 10 billion light-years away. The most likely scenario to account for its existence and properties is that it ... > full story -
New Fruit Fly Protein Illuminates Circadian Response To Light
June 29, 2006 Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have identified a new protein required for the circadian response to light in fruit flies. The discovery of this protein -- named JET ... > full story -
Continuous Search Begun For Gravitational Waves
June 28, 2006 The joint German-British Gravitational Wave Detector GEO600 has now entered an 18-month run of continuous measurement. Researchers are optimistic that they will be able to observe a never before seen ... > full story
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