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June 8, 2004
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Missing Black Holes Found - Space.com European researchers have found 30 previously hidden supermassive black holes anchoring faraway galaxies, which suggests there at least twice as many of the colossal gravity wells as thought. "This discovery means that surveys of powerful supermassive black holes have so far underestimated their numbers by at least a factor of two, and possibly by up to a factor of five," said study leader Paolo Padovani. |
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Tapping Genius - ABC The experiment actually inhibits some brain activity to afford — in its premise, at least — heightened access to the parts of our brains that collect raw information before the data is filtered into concepts. "We have these severely brain-impaired people who are performing what seems ostensibly to be a miracle," Synder said, referring to the extraordinary powers displayed by savants who otherwise have difficulting coping with everyday life. "It must be something that's in us all, and we can't access. They can." The question that Snyder studies is: can we unlock that same potential in our own brains without paying the price? |
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Dino impact gave Earth the chill - BBC Left The impactor theory is the favoured candidate for the demise of the dinosaurs. Evidence has been found for a global winter following the asteroid impact that is thought to have killed off the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. The global winter was probably caused by a pollutant cloud of sulphate particles released when the asteroid vapourised rocks at Chicxulub, Mexico. "It must have been dark long enough to cool the oceans, but not long enough that the whole planet iced over - that's not what we see in the fossil record," said Dr Huber. This impact-induced darkness would have lasted between one and ten years on land, but there is evidence for a cooling of up to 2,000 years at El Kef. Positive feedback mechanisms may have prolonged the cooling effect of the impact winter in waters of intermediate depth - such as those at El Kef - and deeper. The Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction was a selective one; entire groups such as dinosaurs and ammonites were killed off, while others were left unaffected. |
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Biosciences:
6/8/2004: Silence Of The
Genes: Researchers Provide Unique View Of Inherited Disorders And Cancer - Science
Daily
6/8/2004: Other states challenging California for biotech jobs - Seattle
Times
6/8/2004: UK Laws Could Allow Hybrid Human-Animal Experiments - SpaceDaily
6/8/2004: "Lab-On-A-Chip" Could Protect Astronauts And Detect New Life - SpaceDaily
Climate, Environment:
6/8/2004: TRASH:TALKING IS OUR BAG How to Cut Your Spending on Plastic Trash Bagsand Keep a Few Out of The Landfills ... - FirstScience
6/8/2004: Bulgaria Suffers from Global Warming ... - FirstScience
6/8/2004: Canada lagging U.S. on pollution
cuts: report ... - FirstScience
6/8/2004: Lawmakers ask EPA for time to fix emissions testing problems ... - FirstScience
Computers:
Devices
6/8/2004: PDA Pause -
ABC
6/8/2004: Virtual real estate draws real dollars - CNN
6/8/2004: Zire adds GPS navigation - C/Net
6/8/2004: Revenge of
Pac-Man: Vintage games are back - NY
Times
6/8/2004: Microsoft scraps online game for Xbox - C/Net
6/8/2004: Game lets players stump for Bush, Kerry - C/Net
Communications
6/8/2004: A Vaccine for Your Phone - Technology
Review
6/8/2004: Wi-Fi TV Not Ready for Prime Time - Wired News
6/8/2004: Comcast's Cable Game - Wired News
6/8/2004: Broadband hits four million mark -
BBC
6/8/2004: Is the Shine off
Vodafone? - Business
Week
6/8/2004: Clearwire to unveil wireless broadband service - CNN
6/8/2004: Hyatt brings Wi-Fi to hotel rooms, lobbies - C/Net
6/8/2004: Vonage slashes price of Net telephony kit - C/Net
Technology
6/8/2004: The 64-Bit Question - Technology
Review
6/8/2004: The
G5: Finally Ready for Prime Time - Business
Week
PC's
6/8/2004: A Budget PC Offers Big Bang for the Buck -
ABC
6/8/2004: Hefty hard drive means more music -
BBC
6/8/2004: HP makes color printing push - C/Net
6/8/2004: New Toshiba minidrive to pump up Apple's
iPod? - C/Net
Internet
6/8/2004: Phishers Put Surfers on the Hook - Wired News
6/8/2004: Potter-mania fuels pesky virus -
BBC
Miscellaneous
6/8/2004: Microsoft offers new media player - CNN
6/8/2004: A call to arms - C/Net
Energy:
6/8/2004: Global conference talks renewable energy ... - FirstScience
6/8/2004: Processors paying the price for push to renewable energy ... - FirstScience
6/8/2004: Green groups worried about outcome for renewable energy conference ... - FirstScience
Health:
Cardiovascular
6/8/2004: Something in the Air -
ABC
Cancer
6/8/2004: Variations In DNA Repair Genes May Predict Survival In Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Patients - Science
Daily
6/8/2004: UNC Scientists Block Cellular Enzyme Activity Involved In Cancer Progression - Science
Daily
6/8/2004: Study Finds No Association Between Marijuana Use And Incidence Of Oral Cancer - Science
Daily
6/8/2004: Lung Cancer Inches Down in Women -
ABC
6/8/2004: Good News About Cancer. Seriously - Business
Week
Infectious
6/8/2004: Bill Clinton Using Clout to Fight AIDS -
ABC
Non-Infectious
6/8/2004: Fury over 'choc' cigarettes -
BBC
6/8/2004: 'It changed his
life': One mother tells how an ADHD drug helped her son -
BBC
Miscellaneous
6/8/2004: Umbilical Cord Blood Transplants, Bone Marrow Transplants Save Lives - Science
Daily
6/8/2004: Nearly One-third Of The Calories In The US Diet Comprised Of Junk Food, Researcher Finds - Science
Daily
6/8/2004: The Frontiers Of Ultrasound Tech Reach Heart And Brain Science - SpaceDaily
6/8/2004: Fat and Happy -
ABC
6/8/2004: 'Like a Timebomb' -
ABC
6/8/2004: Study: Obese Kids May Develop Diabetes -
ABC
6/8/2004: Student invents slimline inhaler -
BBC
6/8/2004: 'Dirty' scope sparks health scare -
BBC
6/8/2004: Nightmare
op: Carol Weihrer woke up during surgery to remove her eye -
BBC
History, Anthropology:
6/8/2004: Dino impact gave Earth the chill
-
BBC
Miscellaneous:
6/8/2004: Ex-HealthSouth exec gets fine, but no jail - Seattle
Times
6/8/2004: Manufacturing outlook gets brighter - Seattle
Times
6/8/2004: Software exports from India's technology hub surge 46 percent - SpaceDaily
6/8/2004: Sensors Track Martial Arts Blows - Technology
Review
6/8/2004: Wanted: Drugs to Fight Bioterror - Wired News
6/8/2004: Taking Stock of a Dot-Com Freebie - Wired News
6/8/2004: Scientists Try to Trump Politics - Wired News
6/8/2004: Putting Dollar Signs on Solutions - Wired News
6/8/2004: Big Bucks for Biometric Screening - Wired News
6/8/2004: Skewed Sense -
ABC
6/8/2004: Many teens 'having underage sex' -
BBC
6/8/2004: Dell adds another layer to DVD burners - C/Net
6/8/2004: A new strategy for venture investors- hedge - C/Net
6/8/2004: Helping Britons work smarter - C/Net
6/8/2004: You're playing with my mind - C/Net
6/8/2004: The uncertain future of RFID - C/Net
Neurosciences:
6/8/2004: Tapping Genius -
ABC
6/8/2004: Targeting Genes With Viruses To Select Populations Of Nerve Cells - Science
Daily
6/8/2004: World Mental Health Surveys Find Mental Disorders Highly Prevalent And Often Untreated - Science
Daily
6/8/2004: Down's
syndrome: What causes the condition and how does it get its name? -
BBC
Physics and Astronomy:
6/8/2004: Missing Black Holes Found - Space.com
6/8/2004: Spitzer Spitzer Space Telescope Uncovers Black Holes, Other Hidden Objects In The Distant Universe - Science
Daily
6/8/2004: New Theory Finds Middle Ground Between Conflicting Evidence For First Stars - Science
Daily
6/8/2004: Spitzer Leads Great Observatories To Uncover Black Holes And More - SpaceDaily
6/8/2004: NCAR Instrument Gets Breakthrough View of Sun's Magnetic Halo - SpaceDaily
6/8/2004: Spitzer Spies Parallelogram-Shaped Galactic Meal - SpaceDaily
6/8/2004: Finding A Middle Ground For Early Stellar Formation - SpaceDaily
6/8/2004: Photos Of Nearby Galaxy Open New Era Of Discovery - SpaceDaily
6/8/2004: Scientists Measure Sun's Smallest Visible Magnetic Fields - SpaceDaily
6/8/2004: New Theory on Evolution of First Stars in our Universe ... - FirstScience
Prolongevity
Robotics:
Space:
6/8/2004: Bringing The Martian Landscape To The Silver Screen - Science
Daily
6/8/2004: Orbital
Assistance: ConeXpress Spacecraft Could Extend Satellite Missions - Space.com
6/8/2004: O'Keefe: NASA to Pursue Robotic Mission to Save Hubble - Space.com
6/8/2004: Robot Tracks Rocket In Space - SpaceDaily
6/8/2004: Robots to Hubble's
Rescue? - Wired News
6/8/2004: NASA Adminstrator Sean O'Keefe's Remarks to the American Astronomical Society Annual Meeting ... - FirstScience
6/8/2004: Gazers Set for Venus' Crossing With Sun -
ABC
6/8/2004: India Prepares to View Transit of Venus -
ABC
6/8/2004: Crater risk to rover 'worth it' -
BBC
6/8/2004: Venus about to make Sun passage -
BBC
6/8/2004: Mars rover to take the plunge - New
Scientist
6/8/2004: Many Scrambling for a Spot to Watch Venus Cross the Sun
- NY
Times
6/8/2004: Rosetta's Scientific 'First' - Observation Of Comet Linear
6/8/2004: Opportunity Rover Gets Green Light To Enter Martian Crater - Science
Daily
6/8/2004: Venus' Atmosphere to be Probed During Rare Solar Transit - Space.com
6/8/2004: NASA to Risk Sending One Mars Rover into Deep Crater - Space.com
6/8/2004: Aldridge Commission To Release Space Exploration Recommendations June 10 - Space.com
6/8/2004: Endurance: A Crater Too Close - SpaceDaily
6/8/2004: The Transit Of Venus 2004 - SpaceDaily
6/8/2004: Rosetta Studies Comet Linear - SpaceDaily
6/8/2004: Cassini Will Unlock Saturn's Secrets - SpaceDaily
6/8/2004: Opportunity Gets OK To Enter Crater - SpaceDaily
6/8/2004: Setting Twin Sights For Mars Rovers As Mission Finale Approaches - SpaceDaily
6/8/2004: Venus makes pass at the Sun - Nature
6/8/2004: Saturn looms in Cassini's sights - Nature
6/8/2004: After a 122-year wait, skygazers get ready for Venus to transit the Sun ... - FirstScience
Technology:
6/8/2004: Engineers Visualize Electric Memory As It Fades - Science
Daily
6/8/2004: Cornell Licenses 3-D Micro-Imaging Technology To Zeiss - SpaceDaily
6/8/2004: Thoughtful pill boxes cut stress -
BBC
6/8/2004: The smoke detector tops a poll of the best innovations -
BBC
6/8/2004: Costly court
cases: Tech industry fights to stop 'patent trolls' from taking over -
BBC