Researchers Achieve First Electrowetting of Carbon Nanotubes
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If you can imagine the straw in your soda can being a million times smaller and made of carbon, you pretty much have a mental picture of a carbon nanotube. Scientists have been making them at will for years, but have ne ...
Mathematician's insight helps unravel knotty problem
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The latest insight from Rice University assistant professor Shelly Harvey is the kind of idea that comes along rarely for a theorist in any discipline: It's an idea that is both simple and capable of explaining ...
Crystal of holes discovered: Unusual state of matter
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The existence of an unusual state of matter, a crystal that consists entirely of holes, has been proven at Kiel University (Germany). As reported in the latest issue of Physical Review Letters (December 2nd , ...
Violent video games desensitize players to real-world violence
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Playing violent video games changes brain function and desensitizes chronic players to violence, a new study shows.
Rare early Mayan portrait is found
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University of Calgary archaeologist Kathryn Reese-Taylor and an international team of researchers have discovered an early Mayan portrait of a woman.
Physicists describe strange new fluid-like state of matter
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University of Chicago physicists have created a novel state of matter using nothing more than a container of loosely packed sand and a falling marble. They have found that the impacting marble produces a jet ...
Detecting Single Viruses, Nanoparticles in Real-Time
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Two researchers at the Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, New York, have developed a method to detect and recognize single viruses and other nanoparticles in one millisecond. Co-authors Filipp V. ...
Vertical transistor architecture breaks through CMOS scaling barriers
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Freescale Semiconductor has demonstrated a breakthrough transistor that overcomes many of the design and manufacturing challenges associated with vertical multi-gate devices.
The cold truth about climate change and snow
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What would the Earth be like if one fine day all the snow melted away? Obviously, it would be a much warmer place. But what's interesting is how much warmer, says Stephen Vavrus, an associate scientist at ...
Mars rovers continue to explore and amaze
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NASA's durable twin Mars rovers have successfully explored the surface of the mysterious red planet for a full Martian year (687 Earth days). Opportunity starts its second Martian year Dec. 11; Spirit started ...
Precise measurement of physics theory proves true even under extreme conditions
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A new measurement in quantum electrodynamics – an extension of quantum mechanics – is 10 times more precise than any recent measurements.
'Iron Age' skeleton found under ship
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Scientists say a skeleton found beneath the wreckage of a medieval ship in Wales have been found to be those of an Iron Age man.
Simulations shed light on Earth's history of magnetic field reversals
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A new analysis of computer simulations of Earth's magnetic field suggests that its behavior was different early in Earth's history, resulting in greater stability and fewer reversals of the magnetic field. The findings by ...
Self-monitoring cars to detect own faults
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Discovery News has reported a major leap forward in automobile technology: future cars will be able to diagnose and monitor their faults. According to the report, the new technology will determine which parts are damaged ...
Satellites Capture First-Ever Gravity Map Of Tides Under Antarctic Ice
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Ohio State University scientists have used minute fluctuations in gravity to produce the best map yet of ocean tides that flow beneath two large Antarctic ice shelves. They did it using the twin satellites ...
