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As proof of the fact that the world's oceans still store countless surprises for researchers, a new discovery puzzled the academic community, when a scientific excursion near New Zealand led to the discovery of a new type of fish that, at first, appeared to have four eyes. Knowing that four-eyed vertebrates are ... |
28 December 2008
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Astronomy has gone a long way since the telescope was invented, and this device allows today's scientists to detect and deduce the presence of large planets outside our solar system. Still, the limited technology we have restrains the possibilities of finding smaller, Earth-like planets which may actually be mor... |
4 December 2008
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Atsushi Uchida, a Japanese electrical engineer from the Saitama University, and fellow researcher Peter Davis, from the NTT Communication Science Laboratories in Kyoto, Japan, have managed to obtain actual random number sequences at speeds of up to 1.7 GB per second. Their discovery will prove to be crucial for digit... |
24 November 2008
05:11 GMT |
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Chinese researchers' long dream of building a facility better but still relying on the technology used on a national scale for astronomical search purposes has finally come true. Housed in a building that looks like a nuclear missile silo and a messed up PI symbol lies their latest achievement, the Large sky Are... |
7 November 2008
08:29 GMT |
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Liquid mirrors, discovered not long ago, provide the best results at lower costs. They generally require the heavy mercury material to build, but a new approach may enable researchers to place giant versions of such devices even on the Moon. Another one of those science-fiction visions will soon come true, namel... |
10 October 2008
04:33 GMT |
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The following few years could bring us a ground-shaking new atomic microscope based on the fantastically smooth mirror just developed by the scientists from the Surface Science Laboratory at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. While this new device type would not provide a much higher resolution than the currently-used e... |
1 October 2008
04:24 GMT |
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A recent study added another member to the list of the creatures that prove self-awareness capabilities besides humans, dolphins, apes and magpies. It's the elephant, which has been proven to be able to recognize its own face in the mirror.Only seven years ago, everybody was absolutely convinced that the self-aw... |
30 September 2008
05:24 GMT |
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Investigations in the X-ray spectrum are critical for astronomers, especially in studying extremely violent interactions produced by black holes, neutron stars and dark energy. The problem with X-ray light is that it's hard to collect since most of the X-ray sources in the sky are very faint, not to mention that... |
10 June 2008
06:02 GMT |
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The guys that brought you the Battlefield series are working on something entirely different. Maybe they were traumatized by the levels of violence in their multiplayer shooter. Or maybe they want to use the relative freedom they now have in Electronic Arts, thanks to the success of their multiplayer shooter, to try ... |
3 March 2008
02:51 GMT |
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Over 90 % of the amputees report severe pain in the "phantom" limb, in many cases a sensation that the arm or leg is not correctly positioned. The pain can be excruciating and common painkiller drugs do almost nothing. Researches have showed that a mirror 'tricking' the mind that lost limb is still there co... |
26 November 2007
06:14 GMT |
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A solution reminding us of the "Armageddon" movie and high-skilled drillers like Bruce Willis would help only as plan B. In fact, scientists are focusing on flying mirrors to save the Earth from a catastrophic asteroid collision. No less than 5,000 mirrors would be necessary to focus a sunlight fascicle on to the ast... |
8 October 2007
05:45 GMT |
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A newly developed technology could revolutionize most optical devices, making them much more adaptable, yet smaller and cost-effective. The variable liquid lenses and mirrors may one day replace conventional ones in camera phones, for instance, as they have no mechanical parts - thus taking less space - but maintain... |
23 July 2007
11:10 GMT |
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LG Shine should fade into insignificance when compared to the GPlus GP800 mobile phone. In the competition for reaching the greatest glamor, this handset might just defeat the luxurious LG Shine phone.It looks like the perfect mobile phone for ladies who would like to squeeze in their handset even their pocket mirror... |
11 July 2007
04:15 GMT |
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The world's largest telescope will make its first observations this week, in a "first light" ceremony, after 17 years of construction. Although not fully completed, it will be able to take its first look at the sky on July 13, so its makers are not at all superstitious.Gran Telescopio Canarias, or GTC, sometime... |
10 July 2007
11:06 GMT |
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Lenses are used to converge or diverge light in various optical and electronic devices and the first written records of the use of a lens date to Ancient Greece, in 424 BC. The optical zoom lenses in professional television cameras can have a magnification ratio as high as 100x.There are some things that a single mi... |
4 July 2007
09:48 GMT |
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Ares V is the new Cargo Launch Vehicle under development at NASA, part of the Project Constellation, aimed to out people on the Moon, again and on Mars, for the first time. Though the rocket is still on the drawing board, scientists are thrilled about what it could carry into space."The Ares V rocket will be able to... |
27 June 2007
05:52 GMT |
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Do you share the suffering of your favorite character when looking at a movie? Do you feel every blow he/she receives? That's because your brain centers are activated by watching others suffering. Now a research team has come with supplementary data to the theory that mirror systems in our brains are responsibl... |
19 June 2007
05:36 GMT |
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A new proposition in the field of astronomical observations is getting mixed opinions. An American astronomer is proposing that we build a giant liquid-mirror telescope on the Moon, saying that it will be hundreds of times more accurate and sensitive than even the Hubble Space Telescope.Roger Angel, a member of the ... |
23 May 2007
16:36 GMT |
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I'm sure you're familiar with the "kleptonarcissist" buzzword. Anyway, just in case you're not familiar with it, a kleptonarcissist is someone so vain that he/she compulsively steals glances of himself/herself in any nearby reflective surface-mirror. It makes more sense if you read the definition witho... |
8 May 2007
04:14 GMT |
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The size and efficiency of future devices relying on laser optics (like DVD players, computer circuits and laser printers) could be highly improved by a novel high-performance mirror developed by a team at University of California, Berkeley. This mirror has the same 99.9 % reflective punch as high-grade mirrors, name... |
12 March 2007
10:05 GMT |
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