Scientific Thoughts

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility - Albert Einstein

Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Safest Nuclear Reactor?

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An indigenous design for a Thorium nuclear reactor , which can produce 600 MWs of power for two years without being replenished, was unvei...
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Tuesday, August 23, 2005

Model Organism For Humans

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Caenorhabditis elegans is a free-living nematode (a roundworm ), about 1 mm in length, which lives in a temperate soil environment. Resear...
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Monday, August 22, 2005

Near Miss, Great Gains

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For the first time in history, scientists will be able to observe how the Earth's gravity will disrupt a massive asteroid 's spin:)...
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Sunday, August 21, 2005

Magnetic Chickens

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Many species of birds migrate long distances every year. Not only do they migrate over tens of thousands of miles, they almost always fly a...
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Saturday, August 20, 2005

Light Controlling Light

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A team of researchers from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) has successfully demonstrated , for the first time, that it ...
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Friday, August 19, 2005

Singing Wings

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Fixed-wing aircrafts generate lift by passing air at different speeds above and below the wings. The difference in the wind speed creates ...
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Thursday, August 18, 2005

1000th Comet!

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The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) was launched in 1995 and is positioned in a stable orbit at a point between the Earth and the...
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Wednesday, August 17, 2005

Primordial Hot Soup

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A new theory that explains why the language of our genes is more complex than it needs to be also suggests that the primordial soup where ...
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Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Measuring Productivity

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A physicist in the US has proposed a new way of quantifying the scientific output of individual scientists. Jorge Hirsch of UC San Diego ...
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Monday, August 15, 2005

Most Chimps Are Lefties

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We humans show a distinct preference for our right hand. It is a big puzzle for scientists, as no other mammal showed a preference for their...
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