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	August 28th, 2012 風景 Posted 1 day ago by Koichi Mitsui to s a s u r a u 4 ニュータウン。 Nano-scale analysis without the destruction Posted 1 day ago by Futurity to Holy Kaw! With a new tool, scientists can analyze nanostructures at an unprecedented level of detail without destroying them in the process, say researchers. Before, structural analysis destroyed whatever nanomaterial scientists examined. "This limitation is now overcome by our new techniques, which rely on inherently non-invasive nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) probing," says Alexander Tartakovskii of University of Sheffield. Full story at Futurity. More research news from top universities. Photo credit: Travis Jennings/Wikimedia Commons 6 tips for writing irresistible content for your target audience Posted 1 day ago by SmartBrief to Holy Kaw! 2 Whether you’re trying to grab attention to your newspaper, e-mail or blog post, one constant has remained: Content is king. You can write the greatest headline in the world, but if the rest of the content doesn’t deliver, captivate readers or mesh with the target demographic, you’ll quickly lose interest. The secret to creating and maintaining buzz for your content is to write content your audience wants to read. That sounds simple, but knowing your audience — and what it wants — is anything but easy. Full story at SmartBrief Social Media. More SmartBrief stories. Photo credit: Fotolia NASA discovers dinosaur print right in its own backyard Posted about 21 hours ago by Kate Rinsema to Holy Kaw! 1 With so much focus on looking outward, NASA, much like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, never stopped to see the treasure in its own backyard, but for the agency that’s focus is firmly on the future, it isn’t surprising that 100 million-year-old evidence of life on Earth might be overlooked. According to Robert T. Gonzalez at io9: Recently discovered on the grounds of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, experts say the massive footprint was made by an armored, plant-eating dinosaur, lumbering through the Cretaceous mud 110 million years ago. More exciting, still: the discovery of smaller footprints during excavation suggests the giant herbivore had a baby in tow. Thought to be a nodosaur, a literal tank of a dinosaur that could reach the size of a small elephant, researchers are keeping the exact location a secret, but are thrilled with the irony. As Ray Stanford, the amateur dinosaur tracker who made the discovery noted: "Space scientists walk along here, and they're walking where this big, bungling, heavy-armored dinosaur walked maybe 110, 112 million years ago. It's just so poetic." Full story at NASA via io9. The discoveries never end at NASA. Sent by Posterous. Change your email settings or unfollow. Other questions? We'd love to help.