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First Hyperlens For Sound Waves Created
26/10/2009
ScienceDaily
Ultrasound and underwater sonar devices could "see" a big improvement, thanks to development of the world's first acoustic hyperlens. Created by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), the acoustic hyperlens provides an eightfold boost in the magnification power of sound-based imaging technologies.
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Clean Smells Promote Moral Behavior, Study Suggests
26/10/2009
ScienceDaily
People are unconsciously fairer and more generous when they are in clean-smelling environments, according to a soon-to-be published study led by a Brigham Young University professor.
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Leaves "Magnetized" by Air Pollution, Study Finds
19/10/2009
National Geographic News
Tree leaves are "magnetized" by air pollution, and the phenomenon may offer a new and inexpensive technique for quickly identifying air-pollution hot spots, scientists say
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Towards Other Earths: 32 New Exoplanets Found
19/10/2009
ScienceDaily
Today, at an international ESO/CAUP exoplanet conference in Porto, the team who built the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher, better known as HARPS, the spectrograph for ESO's 3.6-metre telescope, reports on the incredible discovery of some 32 new exoplanets, cementing HARPS's position as the world’s foremost exoplanet hunter. This result also increases the number of known low-mass planets by an impressive 30%. Over the past five years HARPS has spotted more than 75 of the roughly 400 or so exoplanets now known.
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First-time Internet Users Find Boost In Brain Function After Just One Week
19/10/2009
ScienceDaily
You can teach an old dog new tricks, say UCLA scientists who found that middle-aged and older adults with little Internet experience were able to trigger key centers in the brain that control decision-making and complex reasoning after just one week of surfing the Web
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