Chicago Installs Solar Powered Charging Station for Electric Vehicles
Apr 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the biggest arguments that some have made against plug-in electric vehicles is that they still promote the use of fossil fuels. When you have to plug in a car for a charge, the electricity ...
Climate Change and Atmospheric Circulation Will Make for Uneven Ozone Recovery
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Earth's ozone layer should eventually recover from the unintended destruction brought on by the use of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and similar ozone-depleting chemicals in the 20th century. ...
Discovery poses challenge to galaxy formation theories
Apr 10, 2009 |
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A team led by an Indiana University astronomer has found a sample of massive galaxies with properties that suggest that they may have formed relatively recently. This would run counter to the widely-held belief ...
Transparent Carbon Nanotube Films Likely Successor to ITO for Commercial Applications
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Will the legacy of Nobel prize winner Richard Smalley finally be fulfilled? Ever since his pioneering work in the mid 1990's on the synthesis of carbon nanotubes, companies have been struggling ...
'Chair disease' -- give it a rest
Apr 10, 2009 |
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Where are you right now? Lounging on an overstuffed couch with the newspaper and a cup of coffee? Sitting on a kitchen chair taking in the news online? Well, I hope you're sitting down for this bit of news. (Or maybe you ...
Taking the Resistance Out of Drug-Resistant Infections
Apr 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It started out as a research project focused on getting rid of harmful bacterial accumulations called biofilms. Now it has the potential to make conventional antibiotics work against stubborn, drug-resistant ...
Darwin egg from Beagle voyage found by museum volunteer
Apr 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An egg collected by Charles Darwin while on HMS Beagle - and thought to be the last such specimen known to exist - has been rediscovered by an octogenarian volunteer at Cambridge University's Zoology Museum.
New method could lead to narrower chip patterns
Apr 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at MIT have found a novel method for etching extremely narrow lines on a microchip, using a material that can be switched from transparent to opaque, and vice versa, just by exposing it to certain ...
In Memoriam: Martin J. Klein, Historian of Modern Physics, Edited Einstein Papers
Apr 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Martin Jesse Klein, a historian of modern physics and former senior editor of "The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein," passed away on March 28. He was 84 years old.
Selective sex abortion causes 32 million excess males in China
Apr 10, 2009 |
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Selective abortion in favour of males has left China with 32 million more boys than girls, creating an imbalance that will endure for decades, an investigation released on Friday warned.
Poverty can physically impair brain, reducing children's ability to learn
Apr 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Chronic stress from growing up in poverty can physiologically impact children's brains, impairing their working memory and diminishing their ability to develop language, reading and problem-solving skills, ...
Bluetooth 3.0 Launches April 21
Apr 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The short-range wireless standard Bluetooth 3.0 will officially launch on April 21. The Bluetooth 3.0 standard is expected to deliver faster short-range wireless speeds up to 480 Mb per second.
Molecule prompts damaged heart cells to repair themselves after a heart attack
Apr 10, 2009 |
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A protein that the heart produces during its early development reactivates the embryonic coronary developmental program and initiates migration of heart cells and blood vessel growth after a heart attack, ...
I, robot -- and gardener: MIT droids tend plants
Apr 10, 2009 |
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(AP) -- These gardeners would have green thumbs - if they had thumbs.
Life Sticks: Bioengineer Publishes Sticky Insights in journal Science
Apr 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Sticky is good. A University of California, San Diego bioengineer is the first author on an article in the journal Science that provides insights on the “stickiness of life.” The big idea i ...
