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Plugless Power soon to arrive for electric and hybrid vehicles

Plugless Power soon to arrive for electric and hybrid vehicles

Technology / Energy

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Evatran, a company from Virginia in the US, has developed a working prototype of a plugless induction charger for electric and hybrid vehicles, and demonstrated the system at this week’s Plug In ...


Greening the Moon and Mars

Greening the Moon and Mars

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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Future missions to the Moon or Mars could use plants as bio-harvesters to extract valuable elements from the alien soils.


Japanese rescue-bot can sniff out disaster survivors (w/ Video)

Japanese rescue-bot can sniff out disaster survivors (w/ Video)

Electronics / Robotics

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Japanese emergency services are to trial a small tank-like rescue robot that can search rubble for survivors and deliver water, food or cellphones in disaster zones.



Calcium supplements linked to increased risk of heart attack

Medicine & Health / Health

created 12 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Calcium supplements, commonly taken by older people for osteoporosis, are associated with an increased risk of a heart attack, finds a study published in the British Medical Journal today.


Ancient reptiles 'make tracks'

Ancient reptiles 'make tracks'

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

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A new discovery of fossilized footprints reveals when reptiles first conquered dry land.



Researchers identify key enzyme in DNA repair pathway

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Researchers have discovered an enzyme crucial to a type of DNA repair that also causes resistance to a class of cancer drugs most commonly used against ovarian cancer.


Mars

Rocks on Mars may provide link to evidence of living organisms 4 billion years ago

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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A new article in press of the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters unveils groundbreaking research on the hydrothermal formation of Clay-Carbonate rocks in the Nili Fossae region of Mars. The findin ...


Brown Dwarf Found Orbiting a Young Sun-Like Star

Brown Dwarf Found Orbiting a Young Sun-Like Star

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created 16 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have imaged a very young brown dwarf, or failed star, in a tight orbit around a young nearby sun-like star. The discovery is expected to shed light on the early stages of solar ...


YouTube gave its users five more minutes on Thursday, increasing the upload limit for videos 15 minutes from 10 minutes

YouTube ups video limit to 15 minutes

Technology / Internet

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YouTube gave its users five more minutes on Thursday, increasing the upload limit for videos to the site to 15 minutes from 10 minutes.


Study finds black carbon implicated in global warming

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created 16 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Increasing the ratio of black carbon to sulfate in the atmosphere increases climate warming, suggests a study conducted by a University of Iowa professor and his colleagues and published in the July 25 issue of the journal ...


To make one happy, make one busy

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created 19 hours ago | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

In Greek mythology, the gods punished Sisyphus by condemning him to roll a rock up a steep hill for eternity. But he was probably better off than if they'd condemned him to sit and stare into space until the end of time, ...


Martian Dust Devil Whirls Into Opportunity's View

Martian Dust Devil Whirls Into Opportunity's View

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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(PhysOrg.com) -- In its six-and-a-half years on Mars, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity had never seen a dust devil before this month, despite some systematic searches in past years and the fact that ...


Unexpected viral 'fossils' found in vertebrate genomes

Biology / Biotechnology

created 14 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Over millions of years, retroviruses, which insert their genetic material into the host genome as part of their replication, have left behind bits of their genetic material in vertebrate genomes. In a recent study, published ...


Microsoft Street Slide threatens to eclipse street view rivals

Microsoft Street Slide threatens to eclipse street view rivals (w/ Video)

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created 23 hours ago | popularity 2.3 / 5 (13) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

(PhysOrg.com) -- Microsoft has unveiled "Street Slide," which gives viewers 360-degree multi-perspective panoramas ("bubbles") of a city streetscape. The system should rival Google's Street View and Bing Maps' ...


Scientists post lower speed limit for cell-signaling protein assembly

Scientists post lower speed limit for cell-signaling protein assembly

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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The apparently random self-assembly of molecular threads into the proteins that make the body work is far less frantic than previously thought, Michigan State University scientists say. That discovery could ...


Droid X

Droid X makes right connections

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

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Trying out an Android phone from Verizon is quickly becoming the same old song, but it's a genuine classic that never gets dull. This time it's the Droid X, released July 15, from Motorola, which has built ...


Unraveling the Matrix

Unraveling the Matrix

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created 16 hours ago | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A new way of analyzing grids of numbers known as matrices could improve signal-processing applications and data-compression schemes.


Polymer passage takes time: New theory aids researchers studying DNA, protein transport

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Polymer strands wriggle their way through nanometer-sized pores in a membrane to get from here to there and do their jobs. New theoretical research by Rice University scientists quantifies precisely how long ...


Behind the secrets of silk lie high-tech opportunities

Behind the secrets of silk lie high-tech opportunities

Chemistry / Materials Science

created 16 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Tougher than a bullet-proof vest yet synonymous with beauty and luxury, silk fibers are a masterpiece of nature whose remarkable properties have yet to be fully replicated in the laboratory.


Western diet link to ADHD

Medicine & Health / Health

created 22 hours ago | popularity 4.2 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

A new study from Perth's Telethon Institute for Child Health Research shows an association between ADHD and a 'Western-style' diet in adolescents.


More frequent, more intense heat waves in store for New York

Space & Earth / Environment

created 19 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Heat waves like those that baked the Northeast in July are likely to be more frequent and more intense in the future, with their effects amplified in densely built urban environments like Manhattan, according to climate scientists ...


Ear bones reveal spawning secrets of Lake Erie walleye

Ear bones reveal spawning secrets of Lake Erie walleye

Biology / Plants & Animals

created 18 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Ecologists have long believed that fish tend to return to the same river where they hatched in order to spawn. But researchers at Ohio State University have determined that the old rule doesn't always apply ...


'Linc-ing' a noncoding RNA to a central cellular pathway

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created 18 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The recent discovery of more than a thousand genes known as large intergenic non-coding RNAs (or "lincRNAs") opened up a new approach to understanding the function and organization of the genome. That surprising breakthrough ...


Researchers find new translocation; weak spots in DNA lead to genetic disease

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created 18 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A genetics research team based at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia continues to discover recurrent translocations—places in which two chromosomes exchange pieces of themselves. As many as 1 in 600 persons carry balanced ...


Good and bad in the hands of politicians

Good and bad in the hands of politicians

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created 20 hours ago | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

"In laboratory tests, right- and left-handers associate positive ideas like honesty and intelligence with their dominant side of space and negative ideas with their non-dominant side," says Daniel Casasanto ...


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