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Colliding Galaxies Make Love, Not War
A new Hubble image of the Antennae galaxies is the sharpest yet of this merging pair of galaxies. As the two galaxies smash together, billions of stars are born, mostly in groups and clusters of stars. The brightest and most compact of these are called super star clusters. Galileo To Support Global Search And Rescue
The detection of emergency beacons will be greatly improved by the introduction of Europe's satellite positioning system, Galileo. The Galileo satellites will carry transponders to relay distress signals to search and rescue organizations. Human Decision-making Takes Multiple Brain Regions Performing Individu
The brain, the human supercomputer, might work more like an assembly line when recognizing objects, with a hierarchy of brain regions separately absorbing and processing information before a person realizes what they are seeing, according to new research in Neuroscience. This study used an innovative technique and analysis to show that human decision-making is a collaboration of brain regions performing individual functions. Hebrew University, Swiss Researchers Analyze Liquid That Lies Beneath
While we generally think of water in nature as a cool liquid that we can see -- streams, lakes, oceans -- there is a great deal of "hot fluid"activity taking place far out of sight, deep within the earth, that influences what ultimately takes place on the surface, including the amount of rainfall and the buildup of new land mass. Orphaned Children Show Higher Intelligence And Fare Better In Foster C
New research, published in Science, shows strong evidence that children fare much better in foster care than in an institution. The study -- conducted in Bucharest, Romania -- could be a wake-up call to nations that feel institutionalization is the best way to handle abandoned children. Children reared in institutions showed greatly diminished intellectual performance relative to children reared in their families of origin. Further, children who were randomly assigned to foster care experienced "significant gains in cognitive function." New Parks To Protect Animals Seen As Feasible
Many "gap"locations worldwide -- identified in previous research as lacking conservation protection yet harboring imperiled animal species -- are ripe for conservation efforts, because they have a sparse human population and large tracts of conservation-compatible habitat, and are unattractive for agriculture. Jupiter's Little Red Spot Growing Stronger
The highest wind speeds in Jupiter's Little Red Spot have increased and are now equal to those in its older and larger sibling, the Great Red Spot, according to observations with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Federal Bureau of Investigation Freedom of Information Privacy Act: Wa
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) file for "Walter Lippmann, a correspondent for New York Herald Tribune, .. [who was] given a three hour special tour of the FBI ... on April 17, 1936. ... Lippmann was formerly the editor, and later a contributor to the magazine, 'The New Republic.' No investigation was ever conducted on Walter Lippmann."Includes redacted memos about Lippmann's writings and political stance. New Ship Breaks New Grounds, And Old Ice
It can crush ice sideways and stay precisely on station to an accuracy of a meter. It can drill a hole 1,000 meters deep into the seabed while floating above 5,000 meters of ocean and it can generate 55 megawatts of power. So far, Aurora Borealis is the most unusual ship that has never been built, and it represents a floating laboratory for European science, a breakthrough for polar research and a very big headache for international lawyers. A Sugar That's Not So Sweet For Insect Pests
A newly introduced class of insecticidal compounds developed by the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and cooperators offers safe and effective alternatives to conventional chemical insecticides.
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