Topic: SCIENCE - on December 24, 2006 at 1:26:00 AM CET
Schwertschlucker ablenken ist gefährlich
Schwertschlucken ist eine riskante Kunst, doch ein "Gesundheits-Check" unter den Künstlern ergab: So richtig gefährlich wird das Spektakel erst, wenn der Schwertschlucker etwa durch Tiere abgelenkt wird.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on December 22, 2006 at 2:56:00 PM CET
Japanese scientists cage light
Scientists have used silicon crystals to trap light and slow it down to the lowest speed ever recorded in the material. The breakthrough is a step towards light-based storage for quantum computers.
Researchers at Japanese telco NTT used man-made photonic crystals, which contain nanoscale holes, to achieve the feat. The cavity which controlled the light was less than ten millionths of a metre long.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on December 20, 2006 at 8:49:00 AM CET
The Mayan Calendar Portal
This site presents information concerning the Mayan calendrical system. Someone below mentioned Apocalypto, so I thought a Mayan link would be appropriate. I can't help suspecting that the site's founders and readers probably have a lot of crystals in their houses.
isn't 2012-compliant
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Topic: SCIENCE - on December 9, 2006 at 1:31:00 PM CET
NJ Drugmaker Introduces Chewable Birth Control
Looking for a contraceptive that's convenient -- and tasty? The first chewable birth-control method, a tiny, spearmint-flavored tablet that also can be swallowed without chewing, has just hit pharmacy shelves.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on December 1, 2006 at 11:30:00 AM CET
An Ancient Computer Surprises Scientists
A computer in antiquity would seem to be an anachronism, like Athena ordering takeout on her cellphone.
But a century ago, pieces of a strange mechanism with bronze gears and dials were recovered from an ancient shipwreck off the coast of Greece. Historians of science concluded that this was an instrument that calculated and illustrated astronomical information, particularly phases of the Moon and planetary motions, in the second century B.C.
Decoding the ancient Greek astronomical calculator known as the Antikythera Mechanism
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Topic: SCIENCE - on November 28, 2006 at 11:44:00 AM CET
Buddha on the brain
Ex-monk B. Alan Wallace explains what Buddhism can teach Western scientists, why reincarnation should be taken seriously and what it's like to study meditation with the Dalai Lama.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on November 24, 2006 at 9:55:00 AM CET
Carbon nanotubes could make t-shirts bullet proof
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have great potential applications in making ballistic-resistance materials. The remarkable properties of CNTs makes them an ideal candidate for reinforcing polymers and other materials, and could lead to applications such as bullet-proof vests as light as a T-shirt, shields, and explosion-proof blankets. For these applications, thinner, lighter, and flexible materials with superior dynamic mechanical properties are required.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on November 20, 2006 at 4:58:00 PM CET
The Relics of Mu
It seems that most every culture has a legend of a great society, ripe with wealth and wisdom, which is lost to the sea. To westerners these are the stories of Atlantis or Thule. To many of the peoples of the South Pacific it is Lemuria or Menehune. To Asians it is called Mu, and was home to people who could fly and who drank an elixir that would cease aging.
After years of searching, and combing the Pacific for a possible lost land that could have been the root of one of these legends, it is clear that there is no extra continent in the sea.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on November 17, 2006 at 3:22:00 PM CET
Brilliant Minds Forecast the Next 50 Years
What will be the biggest breakthrough of the next 50 years? As part of our 50th anniversary celebrations we asked over 70 of the world's most brilliant scientists for their ideas.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on November 16, 2006 at 1:44:00 PM CET
Geheimcode-Suche in Bachs Sonaten
Hat Johann Sebastian Bach mathematische Geheimbotschaften in seinen Werken versteckt? Eine Musikwissenschaftlerin glaubt, in den Sonaten des Komponisten religiöse Hinweise entdeckt zu haben. Was war Absicht, was ist Zufall?
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Topic: SCIENCE - on November 14, 2006 at 11:52:00 AM CET
Natural-born painkiller found in human saliva
Saliva from humans has yielded a natural painkiller up to six times more powerful than morphine, researchers say.
The substance, dubbed opiorphin, may spawn a new generation of natural painkillers that relieve pain as well as morphine but without the addictive and psychological side effects of the traditional drug.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on November 10, 2006 at 9:22:00 AM CET
Cheap nano knowhow cleans arsenic from water
Contaminated water that causes illness and fatal poisoning among millions of people worldwide has been made safe to drink using tiny particles created by nanotechnologists. Scientists at Rice University in Houston are adapting the technique to make it cheap and simple enough to use in developing countries such as Bangladesh, where 57 million people drink water from wells with dangerously high levels of arsenic.
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