Infovell's 'research engine' finds deep Web pages that Google, Yahoo miss
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According to a study by the University of California at Berkeley, traditional search engines such as Google and Yahoo index only about 0.2% of the Internet. The remaining 99.8%, known as the "deep Web," is ...
Could Graphene Replace Semiconductors?
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(PhysOrg.com) -- “People want a faster computer chip,” Philip Kim tells PhysOrg.com. “And it needs to be smaller. But in order to increase the speed of the chip, or to get it smaller, we are approaching a point where you ne ...
How memories are made, and recalled
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What makes a memory? Single cells in the brain, for one thing. For the first time, scientists at UCLA and the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel have recorded individual brain cells in the act of calling up a memory, ...
NASA to Explore 'Secret Layer' of the Sun
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
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Next April, for a grand total of 8 minutes, NASA astronomers are going to glimpse a secret layer of the sun.
'Omnivorous engine' hopes to run on many fuels
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The 'omnivorous engine' is no picky eater. Gasoline? Down the hatch. Ethanol? Butanol? It'll slurp those up too. The creators of the omnivorous engine, engineers at the U.S. Department of ...
'Smart water' may help boost production from oil wells by 60 percent
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Researchers in Norway report that injecting a special type of seawater called "smart water" into certain low-yield oil wells may help boost oil extraction by as much as 60 percent. The study could help meet ...
Researchers advance cellulosic ethanol production
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A team of researchers from Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering and Mascoma Corporation in Lebanon, N.H., have made a discovery that is important for producing large quantities of cellulosic ethanol, a leading candidate ...
Space: The not-so-final frontier
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Of all environments, space must be the most hostile: It is freezing cold, close to absolute zero, there is a vacuum, so no oxygen, and the amount of lethal radiation from stars is very high. This is why humans need to be ...
Marijuana ingredients show promise in battling superbugs
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Substances in marijuana show promise for fighting deadly drug-resistant bacterial infections, including so-called "superbugs," without causing the drug's mood-altering effects, scientists in Italy and the United Kingdom are ...
Carbon molecule with a charge could be tomorrow's semiconductor
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Virginia Tech chemistry Professor Harry Dorn has developed a new area of fullerene chemistry that may be the backbone for development of molecular semiconductors and quantum computing applications.
How Small is Too Small? Researchers Find that Polarization Changes at the Nanoscale
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(PhysOrg.com) -- How small is too small to be useful? Researchers at North Carolina State University have done nanoscale analysis on ferroelectric thin films – materials that are used in electronic devices from computer ...
HP Breaks the 24-hour Battery Life Barrier
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HP today announced an unprecedented milestone in mobile computing: up to 24 hours of continuous notebook operation on a single battery charge.
Intel Introduces Solid-State Drives for Notebook and Desktop Computers
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Intel Corporation announced today it has begun shipping Intel X18-M and X25-M Mainstream SATA Solid-State Drives (SSDs) based on multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash technology for laptop and desktop computers. The new high-performing ...
Global warming wiped out the first rainforests
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Spectacular discoveries of fossil forests show that global warming wiped out the first rainforests to evolve on our planet.
Vitamin B12 may protect the brain in old age
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Vitamin B12, a nutrient found in meat, fish and milk, may protect against brain volume loss in older people, according to a study published in the September 9, 2008, issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academ ...
