Evolution as Described by the Second Law of Thermodynamics
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Often, physics and biology appear as different worlds, from a scientist’s point of view. Each discipline has its own language and concepts, and physicists and biologists tend to look at the ...
Invisibility cloak now within sight: scientists (Update 2)
Aug 11, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have for the first time engineered 3-D materials that can reverse the natural direction of visible and near-infrared light, a development ...
Flexible nanoantenna arrays capture abundant solar energy
Aug 11, 2008 |
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Researchers have devised an inexpensive way to produce plastic sheets containing billions of nanoantennas that collect heat energy generated by the sun and other sources. The technology, developed at the U.S. Department of ...
Running slows the aging clock, researchers find
Aug 11, 2008 |
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Regular running slows the effects of aging, according to a new study from Stanford University School of Medicine that has tracked 500 older runners for more than 20 years. Elderly runners have fewer disabilities, a longer ...
Bugs put the heat in chili peppers
Biology /
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If you're a fan of habañero salsa or like to order Thai food spiced to five stars, you owe a lot to bugs, both the crawling kind and ones you can see only with a microscope. New research shows they are the ...
Epson Develops New High-Resolution 3D LCD Display
Aug 11, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Seiko Epson Corporation has developed a high-resolution (equivalent to QVGA) autostereoscopic 3D liquid-crystal display that affords extra freedom of viewing position compared to conventional ...
Scientists develop the world's thinnest balloon
Aug 11, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in New York are reporting development of the world's thinnest balloon, made of a single layer of graphite just one atom thick. This so-called graphene sealed microchamber is impermeable ...
Algae jet fuel makes splash at international air show
Aug 11, 2008 |
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Researchers Qiang Hu and Milton Sommerfeld from ASU’s Department of Applied Biosciences recently flew to London to share their findings and research on the application of algae-based oils for creating biofuels ...
Hubble unveils colorful star birth region on 100,000th orbit milestone
Aug 11, 2008 |
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During Hubble's 100 000th orbit around the Earth it peered into a small portion of the nebula near the star cluster NGC 2074 (upper, left). The region is a firestorm of raw stellar creation, perhaps triggered ...
Low vitamin D levels pose large threat to health
Aug 11, 2008 |
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Researchers at Johns Hopkins are reporting what is believed to be the most conclusive evidence to date that inadequate levels of vitamin D, obtained from milk, fortified cereals and exposure to sunlight, lead to substantially ...
Signs of Alzheimer's disease may be present decades before diagnosis
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Scientists from the University of South Florida and the University of Kentucky report that people who develop Alzheimer's disease may show signs of this illness many decades earlier in life, including compromised educational ...
Large reservoir of mitochondrial DNA mutations identified in humans
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Researchers at the University of Newcastle, England, and the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech in the United States have revealed a large reservoir of mitochondrial DNA mutations present in the general population. ...
North Pole could lose summer ice
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 11, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- While the summer of 2007 saw record low sea-ice coverage of the Arctic Ocean, a six-year study of the Arctic's sea ice has confirmed its ongoing, massive shrinking and drastic thinning.
Complex decision? Don't sleep on it
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 11, 2008 |
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Neither snap judgements nor sleeping on a problem are any better than conscious thinking for making complex decisions, according to new research.
New report details historic mass extinction of amphibians
Biology /
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Amphibians, reigning survivors of past mass extinctions, are sending a clear, unequivocal signal that something is wrong, as their extinction rates rise to unprecedented levels, according to a paper published ...
