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A new paper, entitled “Can humans see beyond intensity images?” poses a very interesting question – could we possibly see quantum images? A researcher proposes an experiment that he says could shed some light on this theoretical debate.
Exotic images based on quantum entanglement could very well b... |
28 February 2012
10:43 GMT |
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The popular show MythBusters has been temporarily put on hold, after one of their experiments went haywire, and damaged a Dublin, Ireland neighborhood. The myth in question involved firing a cannon with ammo other than a cannonball.
The test firings were done in a safe, enclosed location, but one of the projectiles... |
8 December 2011
08:29 GMT |
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Pseudo-astronauts living in a series of interconnected metal cylinders in Russia have now spent more than a year in solitary confinement. They are replicating the exact conditions of a round-trip to Mars. The experiment, called Mars500, is meant to provide scientists and psychologists with an insight into how the hum... |
3 June 2011
09:37 GMT |
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Scientists with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recently proposed a new experiment that could prove quantum computers can indeed be built, and handle operations that are out of reach for even the most modern computers today. This particular experiment would be tremendously complex and difficult to set... |
2 March 2011
08:49 GMT |
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At this point, scientists recognize the necessity of redefining several basic units of measurements with more precision, and the kilogram is chiefly among them. But the newest proposal on how to do that is bound to spark heated debates in the international scientific community. One of the most outstanding things abou... |
28 January 2011
08:13 GMT |
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In an announcement made yesterday, December 2, officials at the American space agency revealed that the organization is looking to pass on its control over science experiments carried out by the United States on the International Space Station (ISS) to a non-profit organization.According to the officials who made the... |
3 December 2010
03:15 GMT |
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Experimentation forms the basis of modern science, and researchers at the University of Southampton may have just developed a way to innovate the way this process takes place. Experts from the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the university recently won an award for developing a type of artificial ... |
11 October 2010
07:02 GMT |
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Officials announce that the Berkeley Lab campus now houses a new research support facility, which will play a pivotal role in conducting battery research. The work done here could have major implications for the future.The new building was partially funded with grant money secured from the American Recovery and Reinv... |
8 September 2010
03:53 GMT |
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With the Mars500 experiment nearing its third month mark, experts are beginning to form a clue as to how humans endure long-term space travels. Six volunteers underwent astronaut training last years and at the beginning of 2010, and were then locked in a facility that simulates a future spacecraft bound for the Red P... |
3 September 2010
02:40 GMT |
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A team of scientists based at the University of Houston in Texas has recently determined that the risk of a person developing gallbladder cancer is tightly linked to that individual's exposure to estrogens. This particular variant of the disease is highly aggressive and invasive, and doctors always give a reserv... |
17 August 2010
04:38 GMT |
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In a new set of scientific studies, it was revealed that scientists don't know as much as they thought they did about how frozen cones drip, and icicles form. For many years, it was believed that samples featuring a precise quantity of water, freezing under the same conditions, would create icicles that feature ... |
16 August 2010
03:57 GMT |
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Today, June 3, six mock astronauts entered a series of chambers at the Institute for Biomedical Problems (IBMP), in Moscow, Russia. The doors were closed behind them, and lying ahead are 520 days of complete isolation from the outside world. The crew will only be in contact with “Mission Control,” which w... |
3 June 2010
11:03 GMT |
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Officials at the European Space Agency (ESA) announced yesterday that the six-member crew of the Mars 500 experiment was finally ready to go. Two European astronauts will join three Russian and one Chinese colleagues, in remaining isolated from the outside world for nor no less than 520 days. This is the estimated du... |
11 May 2010
03:57 GMT |
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According to a new, extensive review of several hundred studies, it would appear that studies detailing animal trials are about 30 percent more likely to show that a treatment works than the actual human trials that are carried on later. Researchers have noticed for a long time that a large discrepancy existed betwee... |
30 March 2010
03:04 GMT |
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German investigators from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in Leipzig, argue that metacognition should no longer be regarded as a uniquely-human trait. They say that the ability may actually exist in other animals as well, and reveal that new experiments confirmed its existence in great apes, i... |
24 March 2010
11:57 GMT |
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A collaboration between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Russian Federal Space Agency (RosCosmos) is about to embark on a very ambitious project. Six people are to be locked away in a Russian facility for 520 days, in order to simulate the effects that real astronauts would experience in the case of a return-t... |
16 March 2010
16:11 GMT |
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Over the past couple of decades, astronomers and astrophysicists have been searching for the elusive dark matter with everything at their disposal. From special satellites to advanced underground facilities buried deep within disused mines, detectors for this form of matter are nearly everywhere. In spite of these ef... |
16 March 2010
03:52 GMT |
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Over the years, many researchers have argued against the primordial soup theory, saying that the seeds of life on our planet may have arrived on Earth via meteorites. As recent studies have suggested, both the atmosphere and the oceans on our planet may be of extraterrestrial origin, and so this new idea for the emer... |
25 February 2010
18:11 GMT |
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According to a new research conducted by scientists at the Ohio State University (OSU), students taking various courses have the same easy time learning from computer simulations of the concepts they are studying, as they do from actual, practical experiments. In their experiments, the investigators looked at how the... |
12 February 2010
04:44 GMT |
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Over the past 20 years, the European Space Agency (ESA) has been directly involved with supporting and promoting astrobiology studies. These are investigations into how life forms survive in the extreme environment that is the outer space. For this purpose, in 2008, the Expose-E experiment was installed on the Columb... |
3 February 2010
02:33 GMT |
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The largest advantage that the International Space Station (ISS) has over any other scientific laboratory in the world is the fact that it can easily perform experiments under unique conditions. First and foremost, it's the only place where researchers can conduct experiments in microgravity. This opens up the w... |
28 January 2010
09:57 GMT |
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In a groundbreaking, new work that could change the way people with a consciousness look at fish, Janicke Nordgreen has demonstrated that, most likely, they can experience pain when they are ill-treated. A doctoral student at the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science, the expert has recently presented her findings i... |
13 January 2010
19:01 GMT |
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After having successfully docked to the International Space Station (ISS), in spite of being an experimental design, the unmanned Japanese H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV), a cargo freighter, is getting ready to undock from the station and meet its fiery demise upon atmospheric reentry. Members of Expedition 21 spent yest... |
28 October 2009
19:31 GMT |
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Among the scientific experiments that will be taken to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard the space shuttle Discovery, there is one that was designed by experts at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). The experimental heat-transfer system will be installed aboard the station for a total of three year... |
26 August 2009
09:31 GMT |
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In laboratory conditions, researchers test various aspects of lab rats' behavior, in a bid to find parallels between their way of acting in certain situations and our own. Once this happens, they find an animal model for a certain human trait, various aspects of which they can analyze. In a recent investigation,... |
18 June 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Experts at the Houston-based University of Texas Health Science Center (HSC) will have the honor of having their nano-fluidics experiments being ferried to orbit aboard NASA's delivery systems. The deal states that SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets and Dragon spacecraft, blasting off from the Kennedy Space Center, a part ... |
12 May 2009
10:15 GMT |
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The Mars 500 experiment, currently underway at the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, near Moscow, has just concluded its first week of operations. All the six participants that are locked inside for 105 days are reported to be in good condition and spirits, and the activity inside s... |
9 April 2009
06:27 GMT |
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The most ambitious weather experiment in the world will take place between May 10th and June 13th in the central parts of the United States, and will be conducted by an inter-disciplinary team of researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), as well as by ten universities and 3 other gr... |
7 April 2009
09:00 GMT |
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Experts at the Cornell University (CU) have created a remarkable, new algorithm for computers, which is able to derive basic natural laws from raw scientific data. That is to say, rather than people clogging around a table over coffee and determining why, for example, gravity exists, the entire task will be performed... |
3 April 2009
05:23 GMT |
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Early tomorrow, the hatches will close on the international Mars 500 experiment, a test designed to evaluate the effects of long-term isolation on the human mind. The six “astronauts” aboard the bogus spaceship, two from Europe and four from Russia, will remain locked inside the metal containers at the In... |
30 March 2009
07:53 GMT |
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Over the past few years, a growing number of people with no expertise in any field of research has started contradicting scientists over even the smallest detail of their research, like they have any idea what they're talking about. Members of the international scientific community say that the situation is very... |
5 March 2009
04:00 GMT |
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Researchers from the US are currently in possession of what could be referred to as the first artificially-created genetic code in history. Currently located in beakers at the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution in Gainesville, Florida, the DNA-like chemical elements may form the first organism in history cap... |
16 February 2009
11:01 GMT |
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Sociologists say that a new breed of scientists is currently gaining momentum in the academic community, one that uses its own children for harmless experimentation, instead of paying others to undergo the tests. The researchers who apply this method are saying that there's nothing wrong with, for example, attac... |
19 January 2009
06:30 GMT |
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