Science news articles about 'chunks'

  • Scientists: Martian chunks must be ice

    TUCSON, June 20 (UPI) -- Scientists with the U.S. space program say chunks a rover scooped up from a Martian trench must be ice because of the way the they reacted to air.
  • Even toddlers get it: Data 'chunks' are easier to remember

    ... – and do -- use the same technique to increase their working memories, indicating that "chunking" information in this way is not a learned strategy, but is, instead, a fundamental aspect of the human ...
  • Even Toddlers Get It: Data 'Chunks' Are Easier To Remember

    ... that long strings of numbers are more easily recalled when divided into smaller "bite-sized chunks," which is why we break up our telephone and Social Security numbers in this way. Children as young ...
  • Canadian Arctic sheds ice chunk

    A large chunk of the Ward Hunt ice shelf has broken free of the northern Canadian coast, scientists say.
  • Missing DNA chunks tied to schizophrenia risk

    NEW YORK (AP) -- Two huge international studies show that people who lack certain chunks of DNA run a dramatically higher risk of getting schizophrenia, a finding that could help open new doors to ...
  • Huge ice chunks break away from Antarctic shelf

    BERLIN (AP) -- Massive ice chunks are crumbling away from a shelf in the western Antarctic Peninsula, researchers said Wednesday, warning that 1,300 square miles of ice - an area larger than Rhode ...
  • Tiger Teams Reach Out with Solar

    ... called Solar America Cities has focused on reaching out to formerly ignored, sometimes low-profile city decision makers who administer large chunks of urban real estate. It's called "technology pull."
  • Hackers learn to threaten computer hardware

    ... typed in by the user. Anti-virus (AV) software monitors a computer for signs of a virus, such as chunks of telltale code. To fight back, hackers write new viruses that use different code, or bury ...
  • Graphene-based gadgets may be just years away

    ... transparent and highly conductive ultra-thin films that can be produced cheaply by ‘dissolving’ chunks of graphite – an abundant natural resource – into graphene and then spraying the suspension onto ...
  • $271 Million for Research on Stem Cells in California

    The awards represent the largest chunk of money given at one time by California’s taxpayer-backed stem cell program, which plans to spend about $3 billion over a decade.
  • What The Platypus Genome Is and Isn't

    ... my desk sits one floor above where people and robots broke the platypus DNA into chunks, cloned those chunks into bacteria, sequenced the pieces of DNA, and used massive amounts of computing power to ...
  • Autism and brain scans: snake oil or the real deal?

    A segment on ABC’s Good Morning America May 19 caught my attention, so much so that I spent a good chunk of time attempting to find research to back up the claims.read more
  • Mind over matter: Monkey feeds itself using its brain

    ... in the Schwartz lab are able to move a robotic arm to feed themselves marshmallows and chunks of fruit while their own arms are restrained. Computer software interprets signals picked up by probes ...
  • No sex, but plenty of gene transfer

    ... , freshwater animal is making news once again, this time for the startling discovery of numerous chunks of foreign DNA in its genome. In a paper published this week in Science, evidence for massive ...
  • Number of uninsured U.S. young adults grows

    ... (Reuters) - The number of uninsured U.S. young adults, who already represent a major chunk of the American population without health coverage, rose again in 2006, according to a study released on ...

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