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- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 1 minutes
- Episodes
- 80
- Years Active
- 2008 - 2010
Current Event
Waters from warmer latitudes, or subtropical waters, are reaching Greenland's glaciers, driving melting and likely triggering an acceleration of ice loss, reports a team of researchers from the Woods…
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Thu 04 Mar 2010
Viral Vrooom
Researchers at MIT have shown that they can genetically engineer viruses to build both the positively and negatively charged ends of a lithium-ion battery.
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Tue 23 Feb 2010
No Brainer
Neuroscientists at MIT have developed a powerful new class of tools to reversibly shut down brain activity using different colors of light. When targeted to specific neurons, these tools could potent…
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Wed 17 Feb 2010
Mess O' Predators
A new study led by Oregan State University shows that declining populations of "apex" predators such as wolves, lions or sharks has led to a huge increase in smaller "mesopredators" that are causing …
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Wed 20 Jan 2010
Amoeba Cheaters
New research out of Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine says that cheaters may prosper in the short term, but over time they seem doomed to fail, at least in the microscopic world of amoeb…
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Wed 20 Jan 2010
Reservoir Bots
Michigan State University researchers have designed robots that, in the future, could be ocean-going and cooperatively track moving targets underwater. Schools of swimming robots would be able to wo…
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Mon 14 Dec 2009
Unreasonable Facsimile
Princeton University researchers have come up with a new twist on the mysterious visual phenomenon experienced by humans known as the "uncanny valley." That twist is that monkeys experience the same…
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Mon 14 Dec 2009
Sprint Condition
Longer toes and a unique ankle structure provide some sprinters with the burst of acceleration that separates them from other runners, according to biomechanists at Penn State University.
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Thu 03 Dec 2009
Risky Business
A new analysis of climate risk, published by researchers at MIT and elsewhere, shows that even moderate carbon-reduction policies now can substantially lower the risk of future climate change. It als…
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Fri 13 Nov 2009
Family Roots
Plants may not have eyes and ears, but they can recognize their siblings, and researchers at the University of Delaware have discovered how. Plants recognize family members by detecting chemical cue…
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Thu 29 Oct 2009
Toddler Vision
A new study done by researchers at the University of Massachusetts found that when a TV is on in a room both the quantity and the quality of the interactions between parents and their children drops.…
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Tue 20 Oct 2009
Virtual Vacation
A new computer algorithm developed at the University of Washington uses hundreds of thousands of tourist photos to automatically reconstruct entire cities in about a day. The tool harnesses the incre…
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Tue 20 Oct 2009
Ardi-Facts
An international team of scientists has for the first time thoroughly described Ardipithecus ramidus, a hominid species that lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia. The female skeleton, …
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Thu 15 Oct 2009
Bacterial Bouncers
A team of researchers in Denmark, at the University of California, Davis, and at UC Berkeley have identified a group of plant proteins that "shut the door" on bacteria that would otherwise infect the…
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Wed 14 Oct 2009
Mind Scans
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say you're more likely to scan a room, jumping from object to object as you search for something. In addition, the timing of these jumps appea…
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Wed 30 Sep 2009
Cloak Works
University of Utah mathematicians have developed a brand new cloaking method that functions through wave cancellation and could someday shield submarines from sonar, planes from radar, buildings from…
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Fri 18 Sep 2009
Rock the House
Stanford engineers and others have created a structural design that lets buildings rock during earthquakes, then correct themselves when the shaking stops, confining damage to replaceable steel "fuse…
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Fri 18 Sep 2009
Trained Ear
A Northwestern University study is the first of its kind and demostrates that having musical training can help a listener distinguish between background noise and sound that the listener is meant to …
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Tue 15 Sep 2009
Computer Personal
Oregon State University researchers are pioneering the concept of "rich interaction" -- computers that do, in fact, want to communicate with, learn from, and get to know you better as a person.
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Tue 15 Sep 2009
Pilot Program
University of Illinois researchers report that they have assembled a new cancer drug delivery system that, in a cell culture, is able kill tumor cells and spare healthy cells.
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Thu 03 Sep 2009
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