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Looking for extra dimensions by measuring gravity at the microscopic level

By Phillip F. Schewe, Inside Science News Service | 10/19/10
WASHINGTON — Scientists know how gravity works at big distances — the inter-planetary or inter-stellar range — but does it work the same way at the inter-atomic range? A variety of tabletop experiments are trying to explore this issue.  Already som
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Imitation black hole seen on Earth

By Phillip F. Schewe, Inside Science News Service | 10/05/10
WASHINGTON — Astrophysics deals mostly with things that are so distant — thousands or billions of light years away — that we can't ever hope to see them up close.
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New book attempts to explain string theory

By Phillip F. Schewe, Inside Science News Service | 09/27/10
WASHINGTON — Reality comes in layers. Everything we see in the world around us, scientists tell us, is made of atoms and combinations of atoms called molecules. Atoms are themselves made of tiny particles — electrons, protons, and neutrons.
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New form of silicon might speed up microcircuitry

By Phillip F. Schewe, Inside Science News Service | 08/26/10
WASHINGTON — Graphene, single-atom-thick sheets of carbon atoms, is just about the hottest thing in nanotechnology.
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Neurology on a chip

By Phillip F. Schewe, Inside Science News Service | 08/13/10
WASHINGTON — Engineers and biologists at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, have succeeded in coaxing tiny worms to move around a microchip using electric fields. This should help neurologists study the human nervous system.
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Hyperlocal effects from a changing climate

By Phillip F. Schewe, Inside Science News Service | 08/10/10
A new study by three scientists at the Met Office, the British government agency responsible for making weather forecasts, looks at how hot cities could be by the year 2050.
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Scientists prove cosmic rays are made of protons

By Phillip F. Schewe, Inside Science News Service | 07/07/10
WASHINGTON — Cosmic rays are made of protons, scientists found as they used a vast array of telescopes arranged across the Utah desert.
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Thin power source for thinner computers

By Phillip F. Schewe, Inside Science News Service | 06/25/10
WASHINGTON  — Thin electronic readers such as Amazon's Kindle are designed to mimic the look of ink on paper.
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Astrobiologists look for places at home to practice for missions on other planets

By Phillip F. Schewe, Inside Science News Service | 06/09/10
WASHINGTON — Like the Earth, the other planets and moons in our solar system have their own characteristic local surface materials and weather conditions.
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Orbits of exoplanets tilted

By Phillip F. Schewe, Inside Science News Service | 06/01/10
WASHINGTON — An astronomer at the University of Texas in Austin reports on the careful measurement of two planets circling Upsilon Andromedae, a star which sits in space about 44 light-years from our sun.