Researchers Create Microscope With 100 Million Times Finer Resolution Than Current MRI
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- IBM Research scientists, in collaboration with the Center for Probing the Nanoscale at Stanford University, have demonstrated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with volume resolution 100 million ...
Education professor dispels myths about gifted children
Jan 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Though not often recognized as "special needs" students, gifted children require just as much attention and educational resources to thrive in school as do other students whose physical, behavioral, emotional ...
Study links swings in North Atlantic oscillation variability to climate warming
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 13, 2009 |
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Using a 218-year-long temperature record from a Bermuda brain coral, researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have created the first marine-based reconstruction showing the long-term behavior of one ...
Radio-astronomers form telescope the size of Earth
Jan 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Radio telescopes around the world will join forces this week to carry out a unique observation of three quasars, distant galaxies powered by super-massive black holes at their cores.
Can you see me now? Flexible photodetectors could help sharpen photos
Jan 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Distorted cell-phone photos and big, clunky telephoto lenses could be things of the past. UW-Madison Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor Zhenqiang (Jack) Ma and colleagues ...
Simply Weird Stuff: Making Supersolids with Ultracold Gas Atoms
Jan 13, 2009 |
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Physicists at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland have proposed a recipe for turning ultracold “boson” atoms—the ingredients ...
Impact of sea-level rise on atmospheric CO2 concentrations
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The rise in sea level since the last ice age has prevented us from feeling the full impact of man-made global warming. The sea level rise has resulted in more harmful greenhouse gases being absorbed by the ...
Your face reveals sleep disorder risk
Jan 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers from the University of Sydney has developed an innovative method to analyse digital photographs of faces in order to determine an individual's risk of developing Obstructive Sleep Apnoea ...
A case of mistaken dino-identity
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jan 13, 2009 |
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The official State Dinosaur of Texas is up for a new name, based on Southern Methodist University research that proved the titleholder has been misidentified.
'2-faced' Bioacids Put a New Face on Carbon Nanotube Self-Assembly
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jan 13, 2009 |
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Nanotubes, the tiny honeycomb cylinders of carbon atoms only a few nanometers wide, are perhaps the signature material of modern engineering research, but actually trying to organize the atomic scale rods ...
Physicists Show that Correlated Environmental Variations Can Quicken Extinctions
Jan 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In general, population extinction is a natural process. For one reason or another, an estimated 99.9% of all species that have lived on Earth are now extinct. However, the reasons for a species ...
'Green' gasoline on the horizon?
Jan 13, 2009 |
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University of Oklahoma researchers believe newer, more environmentally friendly fuels produced from biomass could create alternative energy solutions and alleviate dependence on foreign oil without requiring changes to current ...
Low-cost strategy developed for curbing computer worms
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jan 13, 2009 |
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Thanks to an ingenious new strategy devised by researchers at University of California, Davis and Intel Corporation, computer network administrators might soon be able to mount effective, low-cost defenses against self-propagating ...
Low temperature fuel cells: New clean, energy efficient technology to power cars and mobiles
Jan 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new version of an environmentally friendly, energy efficient technology that could replace combustion engines in cars and batteries in mobile devices such as phones and laptops is being ...
Voracious sponges save reef
Biology /
Jan 13, 2009 |
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Tropical oceans are known as the deserts of the sea. And yet this unlikely environment is the very place where the rich and fertile coral reef grows. Dutch researcher Jasper de Goeij investigated how caves in the coral reef ...
