Producing hydrogen from urine
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Jul 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- You do two things at motorway services: fill up one tank and empty another. US chemists have combined refuelling your car and relieving yourself by creating a new catalyst that can extract ...
Physicists Demonstrate Quantum Memory with Matter Qubits
Jul 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, scientists have successfully operated a quantum gate between two remote particles of matter, marking an important step toward the development of a quantum computer. In ...
Australian scientists hail triple dinosaur find
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 03, 2009 |
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Australian scientists hailed the country's most significant dinosaur discovery in decades on Friday after three new species were unearthed in a Queensland billabong.
Coolest spacecraft ever in orbit around L2
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Last night, the detectors of Planck's High Frequency Instrument reached their amazingly low operational temperature of -273°C, making them the coldest known objects in space. The spacecraft ...
The Vision Revolution: Eyes Are the Source of Human 'Superpowers'
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 03, 2009 |
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For Mark Changizi, it’s all in the eyes.
Plant disease hits eastern US veggies early, hard
Jul 03, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Tomato plants have been removed from stores in half a dozen states as a destructive and infectious plant disease makes its earliest and most widespread appearance ever in the eastern United States.
Global warming tactic cools climate but won’t help corals, say researchers
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- “Geoengineering” experiments proposed to reduce global warming by blocking sunlight with atmosphere-injected particles may cool the world but still leave carbon dioxide levels dangerously high, Stanford scientists ...
Oxygen key to 'cut and paste' of genes
Jul 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An oxygen-sensitive enzyme has been found to play a key role in how genes create the many different proteins that make up our bodies.
Volkswagen plans electric car in 2013: head
Jul 03, 2009 |
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German auto maker Volkswagen hopes to turn out its first all-electric car in 2013, VW head Martin Winterkorn said Friday.
Senator may have won fight over private rocket manufacturing
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 03, 2009 |
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For months, a powerful Republican senator from Alabama has fought the Obama administration to block $150 million that the White House wanted to spend to help private companies build rockets capable of reaching the international ...
Japanese imperial army maps to go online
Jul 03, 2009 |
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Old Asia-Pacific maps from Japanese Imperial Army archives are going online for modern use, such as studying changes in forest cover or the growth of cities, a Japanese researcher said Friday.
Energy-Efficient Intelligent House that Can Learn our Routines
Jul 03, 2009 |
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The first home in the UK which can learn from its residents and take decisive action and text if it is being burgled or the door has been left unlocked, will be unveiled this week in Cairo.
Japan may add noise to quiet hybrid cars for safety
Jul 03, 2009 |
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Japan's near-silent hybrid cars have been called dangerous by the vision-impaired and some users, prompting a government review on whether to add a noise-making device, according to an official.
Lower risk of dementia for married or cohabiting people
Jul 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- People who live alone have twice the risk of developing dementia and Alzheimer's disease in later life compared with married or cohabiting people, according to a research study led by Miia Kivipelto from ...
US government Internet traffic to be screened: report (Update)
Jul 03, 2009 |
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The Obama administration is planning to use the National Security Agency to screen Internet traffic between government agencies and the private sector, the Washington Post reported Friday.
