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How Cities Mimic Life: Megacities Breathe, Consume Energy, Excrete Wastes And Pollute
30/08/2009
ScienceDaily
A scientific trend to view the world's biggest cities as analogous to living, breathing organisms is fostering a deep new understanding of how poor air quality in megacities can harm residents, people living far downwind, and also play a major role in global climate change. That's the conclusion of a report on the "urban metabolism" model of megacities presented here today at the 238th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS).
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Star-birth Myth 'Busted'
30/08/2009
ScienceDaily
An international team of researchers has debunked one of astronomy's long held beliefs about how stars are formed, using a set of galaxies found with CSIRO’s Parkes radio telescope.
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Handwriting-based Tool Offers Alternate Lie Detection Method
29/08/2009
ScienceDaily
For ages experts and laymen have been analyzing and trying to crack the code of handwriting characteristics, in order to detect an individual's personality traits, or in most cases, gauge their innocence in the case of a crime. Although this science has often gone the way of pseudoscience, researchers are now discovering that with the aid of a computerized tool, handwriting characteristics can be measured more effectively
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Scientists First To Image 'Anatomy' Of A Molecule
29/08/2009
ScienceDaily
IBM scientists have been able to image the “anatomy” -- or chemical structure -- inside a molecule with unprecedented resolution, using a complex technique known as noncontact atomic force microscopy.
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Why do we Sleep? Scientists are Still Trying to Find Out
26/08/2009
National geographic
We spend a third of our lives asleep, but sleep researchers still don't know why. Some researchers regard sleep as one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of science, even though all animals do it in one form or another
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