Physicists Demonstrate How Information Can Escape From Black Holes
May 14, 2008 |
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Physicists at Penn State have provided a mechanism by which information can be recovered from black holes, those regions of space where gravity is so strong that, according to Einstein's theory of general ...
A Smarter Way to Grow Graphene
May 14, 2008 |
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Graphene, a sheet of carbon just one atom thick, has many potential uses in the electronics industry, but producing these ideal two-dimensional carbon sheets is very difficult and, as a result, their use has ...
Nanowires may boost solar cell efficiency, engineers say
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 14, 2008 |
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University of California, San Diego electrical engineers have created experimental solar cells spiked with nanowires that could lead to highly efficient thin-film solar cells of the future.
New efficiency record for solar cells
May 14, 2008 |
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Physicist Bram Hoex and colleagues at Eindhoven University of Technology, together with the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany, have improved the efficiency of an important type of solar cell from 21.9 to 23.2 percent (a relative ...
Shrimps see beyond the rainbow
Biology /
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A Swiss marine biologist and an Australian quantum physicist have found that a species of shrimp from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, can see a world invisible to all other animals.
Studies confirm greenhouse mechanisms even further into past
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 14, 2008 |
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The newest analysis of trace gases trapped in Antarctic ice cores now provide a reasonable view of greenhouse gas concentrations as much as 800,000 years into the past, and are further confirming the link ...
Middle class relaxing with marijuana
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A variety of middle-class people are making a conscious but careful choice to use marijuana to enhance their leisure activities, a University of Alberta study shows.
NASA study links Earth impacts to human-caused climate change
May 14, 2008 |
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A new NASA-led study shows human-caused climate change has made an impact on a wide range of Earth's natural systems, including permafrost thawing, plants blooming earlier across Europe, and lakes declining in productivity ...
Held together by metal-metal bonds: a large ring containing 36 gold atoms
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 14, 2008 |
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Chinese researchers have recently made a “golden crown” with a diameter of only a few nanometers. It is a large ring-shaped molecule containing 36 gold atoms. The lords of the ring, a team of researchers from ...
Warming climate is changing life on global scale, says new study
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 14, 2008 |
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A vast array of physical and biological systems across the earth are being affected by warming temperatures caused by humans, says a new analysis of information not previously assembled all in one spot. The ...
Student Innovation Could Improve Data Storage, Magnetic Sensors
May 14, 2008 |
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Paul Morrow has come a long way from his days as an elementary school student, pulling apart his mother’s cassette player. The talented young physicist has developed two innovations that could vastly improve ...
Astrophysicists discover youngest known supernova in Milky Way
May 14, 2008 |
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A North Carolina State University researcher has discovered the youngest known supernova in our galaxy. Estimated at a mere 140 years old, this celestial whippersnapper is at least 200 years younger than the ...
Wandering poles left scars on Europa
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 14, 2008 |
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Curved features on Jupiter’s moon Europa may indicate that its poles have wandered by almost 90°, report scientists from the Carnegie Institution, Lunar and Planetary Institute, and University of California, ...
Samsung Develops World’s First 'Blue Phase' Technology to Achieve 240 Hz Driving Speed for High-Speed Video
May 14, 2008 |
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Samsung Electronics announced today that it has developed the world’s first “Blue Phase” LCD panel – which will offer more natural moving images with an unprecedented image-driving speed of 240 Hertz. Samsung ...
New insights into the dynamics of the brain's cortex
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Using mathematics and a computer model of brain activity, Roberto Fernández Galán, Ph.D., an assistant professor of neurosciences at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, has shown a direct link between activity ...
