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Study: Nose Doesn't Smell Like The Eyes See
Johns Hopkins scientists have uncovered new details of how smelly things create signals in the nose that eventually go to the brain. The findings raise issues about how the process involved has been described for many years in biology textbooks. Impact Of Climate Change In Africa
Africa is the continent that will suffer most under global warming. Past history gives us lessons on the likely effects of future climate change. Of greatest concern are the "large infrequent disturbances"to the climate as these will have the most devastating effects. In a study from the Kenyan Tsavo National Park published today in the African Journal of Ecology, Dr. Lindsey Gillson uncovers evidence for a drought that coincided with a harrowing period of Maasai history. Zooming To Pluto, New Horizons Spacecraft Approaches Jupiter
Just a year after it was dispatched on the first mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt, the APL-built New Horizons spacecraft is on the doorstep of the solar system's largest planet -- about to swing past Jupiter and pick up even more speed on its voyage toward the unexplored regions of the planetary frontier. The Golden Compass: The Making of Philip Pullman's Epic F
Set in a world of shape-shifting animals and armored polar bears, Pullman's trilogy, His Dark Materials, has become wildly popular over the past decade, selling more than 5 million copies in the US alone. In the wake of the success of the Lord of the Ringsand Narniafranchises, it might seem like a no-brainer to use the books as the basis for another series of fantasy movies -- but this franchise comes with so many extra degrees of difficulty, it seems unbelievable that it ever got a green light. Wish You Were Here: Artists on Vacation
"Like everyone else, artists view vacation as a time to get away from the grind. ... Getting away, however, does not mean leaving the canvas or sketchbook behind."This exhibit "include numerous items that show artists on vacation, from snapshots and sketchbooks to letters and postcards."Browsable by topics such as anticipation, city, woods, summer homes, passports, and abroad. From the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. Small Earthquakes are Useful Predictor of Large Ones
Conventional wisdom in seismology says slip on faults that rupture during the largest continental strike-slip earthquakes is generally limited to the seismogenic layer, the upper 15 km or so of the earth's crust to which aftershocks extend and background seismicity is limited. That idea when coupled with theory predicts that the amount of slip on faults in large earthquakes should not continue to increase once the dimensions of a rupture have surpassed about 15 km. The prediction is not supported by observation. Linux-Loaded ThinkPads, Coming Right Up
Lenovo, the world's third-largest PC manufacturer, announces it will start selling some of its ThinkPad laptops preloaded with Linux instead of Windows later this year. The new Lenovo laptops will use Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) 10 distribution. Nuclear Power Boosts Uranium Boom
A renaissance in nuclear power production pushes up prices of uranium and spurs development of nuke facilities. There's little resistance from environmentalists, despite no real solution for the industry's waste products. Bipolar Disorder Amongst Children And Adolescents Receive Late Diagnos
A new study finds that 75% of the cases of paediatric bipolar disorder are diagnosed late – up to 18 months – due to the symptoms manifesting themselves in a different manner depending on whether the patient is a child or adult. Wired Test: Video Cameras
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