Quantum secrets of photosynthesis revealed
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Through photosynthesis, green plants and cyanobacteria are able to transfer sunlight energy to molecular reaction centers for conversion into chemical energy with nearly 100-percent efficiency. Speed is the ...
IBM Extends Moore's Law to the Third Dimension
Apr 12, 2007 |
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IBM today announced a breakthrough chip-stacking technology in a manufacturing environment that paves the way for three-dimensional chips that will extend Moore’s Law beyond its expected limits. The technology ...
Soft tissue taken from 68 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex fossil yields original protein
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What happens when a 68 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus Rex meets 21st century medical science?
Chandra sees remarkable eclipse of black hole
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A remarkable eclipse of a supermassive black hole and the hot gas disk around it has been observed with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This eclipse has allowed two key predictions about the effects of supermassive ...
Electrons caught in the act of tunnelling
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We have to climb a mountain in order to conquer it. In quantum physics there is a different way: objects can reach the opposite side of a hill simply by tunnelling through it, instead of laboriously climbing ...
Modified gravity v. dark energy
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For many years now, scientists have wondered why the universe is expanding faster than it should be. Through conventional knowledge of physics, the universe should be expanding at a slower pace that observations show that ...
Organic lighting research burns bright
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The long, challenging technological march from the low-power light bulb Thomas Edison invented to the ultimate in a bright and energy-efficient lighting device may reach fruition in work led by the two ASU researchers.
Research shows men and women look at sexual photographs differently
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A study funded by the Atlanta-based Center for Behavioral Neuroscience (CBN) analyzed the viewing patterns of men and women looking at sexual photographs, and the result was not what one typically might expect.
Where is the proton? Yale scientists discover footprints of shared protons
Apr 12, 2007 |
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This week in Science, Yale researchers present "roadmaps" showing that shared protons, a common loose link between two biological molecules, simply vibrate between the molecules as a local oscillator, rather ...
Chemists design world's lowest-density crystals for use in clean energy
Apr 12, 2007 |
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Chemists at UCLA have designed new organic structures for the storage of voluminous amounts of gases for use in alternative energy technologies.
Quantum dot lasers -- 1 dot makes all the difference
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Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Stanford and Northwestern Universities have built micrometer-sized solid-state lasers in which a single quantum dot can play a dominant ...
Scientists shake Darwin's foundation -- chickens inherited parents' stress symptoms
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Evolutionary theory ever since Darwin is based on the assumption that acquired traits, such as learnt modifications of behaviour, cannot be inherited by the offspring. Now, a Swedish-Norwegian research group, led by professor ...
Virginia Tech Tackles Head Injuries Using Wireless
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The Virginia Tech football team has joined with Simbex to measure head injuries and develop a wireless telemetry system that fits inside a football helmet.
HP Pushes Ink Jet Printing to 70 Pages per Minute
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Apr 12, 2007 |
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HP has announced two ultra-fast office MFPs with Edgeline technology. We tell you how it fits in with other cutting-edge printing technologies.
Treasure trove of fossils found in Kendall County cave
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Remnants from a cave embedded in a limestone quarry southwest of Chicago have yielded a fossil trove that may influence the known history of north central Illinois some 310 million years ago.
