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Friday, 29 August 2008 |
Astronomers identify that dark matter is different from ordinary matter when they pointed the Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory toward two very large merging galaxies that are forming the galactic cluster MACSJ0025.4-1222.
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Friday, 29 August 2008 |
NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover (MER) “Opportunity” is rolling out of Victoria Crater after a successful year-long investigation of the Martian hole. It will now target the cobbles found on the Martian plain Meridiani Planum.
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Friday, 29 August 2008 |
A team of researchers from Brazil, U.S., U.K, and Australia have stated that older Australians are having sexual intercourse quite often, more than they expected, but not without some difficulties.
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Thursday, 28 August 2008 |
German and Czech researchers studied satellites images of thousands of cows and deer around the world and found most of them graze and rest in a north-south position. Could they be sensing the magnetic field of the Earth? Or, maybe they just happened to stand and sit that way? In any case, it’s a pretty mooooving study!
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Thursday, 28 August 2008 |
Physicians have long warned people not to eat nuts, popcorn, and corn if at risk for diverticulitis, a condition where small pouches develop in the colon. However, a new study says such a warning is nutty; in fact, it’s just the opposite: eat all you want to lower your risk.
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Thursday, 28 August 2008 |
NASA announced in February 2008 that it was holding a contest to re-name its Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST. The new name—Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope—was announced by NASA in August 2008 to honor Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi (1901-1954).
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Tuesday, 26 August 2008 |
European astronomers state that 2XMM J083026+524133 has been located about 7.7 billion light-years from our solar system. They contend that its existence can only be explained through dark energy.
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Tuesday, 26 August 2008 |
UPDATED: The Space Shuttle Atlantis will roll out of its Vehicle Assembly Building on Saturday, August 30, Tuesday, September 2, 2008, in preparation for its crew’s repair and service mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, the fifth and final such mission for NASA to the space telescope.
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Tuesday, 26 August 2008 |
U.S. entomologists find that mosquitoes are very sensitive to DEET (N,N-Diethyl-meta-toluamide), the active ingredient in many insect repellents. The surprising information is likely to help prevent diseases being spread worldwide by mosquitoes.
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Tuesday, 26 August 2008 |
On Monday, August 25, 2008, CERN officials announced that the second and final test of the beam synchronization systems for its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was accomplished successfully.
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Monday, 25 August 2008 |
Spanish and Dutch researchers found that instead of reducing the amount of calories consumed by people, treats in small-sized packages ("diet" and “fun” packs) actually increase the amount of high-calorie foods eaten. However, was the study valid?
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