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Early Black Holes Grew Big Eating Cold, Fast Food
Posted on December 13, 2011 at 09:19:39 am
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Bruce and Astrid McWilliams Center for Cosmology have discovered what caused the rapid growth of early supermassive black holes -- a steady diet of cold, fast food
Visual Tour of Earth's Fires
Posted on December 13, 2011 at 09:16:07 am
NASA has released a series of new satellite data visualizations that show tens of millions of fires detected worldwide from space since 2002
Bigger, Scarier Weapons Help Spiders Get the Girl
Posted on December 13, 2011 at 08:54:21 am
Specifically, the bigger a male jumping spider's weapons appear to be, the more likely his rival will slink away without a fight, leaving the bigger guy a clear path to the waiting female.
Multi-Purpose Photonic Chip Paves the Way to Programmable Quantum Processors
Posted on December 12, 2011 at 10:19:57 am
A multi-purpose optical chip which generates, manipulates and measures entanglement and mixture -- two quantum phenomena which are essential driving forces for tomorrow's quantum computers has been developed
World's Smallest Steam Engine: Heat Engine Measuring Only a Few Micrometers
Posted on December 12, 2011 at 09:22:19 am
What would be a case for the repair shop for a car engine is completely normal for a micro engine
Tracking Yellowstone's Geothermal Activity
Posted on December 11, 2011 at 12:58:54 pm
Yellowstone National Park sits on top of a vast, ancient, and still active volcano. Heat pours off its underground magma chamber, and is the fuel for Yellowstone's famous features -- more than 10,000 hot springs, mud pots, terraces and geysers, including
Evil Twins to Evade the Body's Defenses
Posted on December 10, 2011 at 09:20:45 am
An unusual regulatory mechanism that controls the swimmer/non-swimmer option in genetically identical Salmonella also impacts the bacteria's ability to cause infection
New Disinfection Technique Could Revolutionize Hospital Room Cleaning
Posted on December 10, 2011 at 09:16:55 am
A Queen's University infectious disease expert has collaborated in the development of a disinfection system that may change the way hospital rooms all over the world are cleaned as well as stop bed bug outbreaks in hotels and apartments
Honey Bees Think Like Complex Brains
Posted on December 09, 2011 at 09:03:55 am
House-hunting is full of decisions, for us and honey bees. One early decision we both face is where to live. Researchers have long been studying how honey bees make these decisions.
77,000-Year-Old Evidence for 'Bedding' and Use of Medicinal Plants Uncovered
Posted on December 09, 2011 at 07:14:17 am
Researchers have discovered the earliest evidence for the intentional construction of plant "bedding."














