New ant species discovered in the Amazon likely represents oldest living lineage of ants
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A new species of blind, subterranean, predatory ant discovered in the Amazon rainforest by University of Texas at Austin evolutionary biologist Christian Rabeling is likely a descendant of the very first ants ...
First 3-D processor runs at 1.4 Ghz on new architecture
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 15, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The next major advance in computer processors will likely be the move from today's two-dimensional chips to three-dimensional circuits, and the first three-dimensional synchronization circuitry is now running ...
Drinking chamomile tea may help fight complications of diabetes
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Drinking chamomile tea daily with meals may help prevent the complications of diabetes, which include loss of vision, nerve damage, and kidney damage, researchers in Japan and the United Kingdom are reporting.
3M Launches First Pocket Projector
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Sep 15, 2008 |
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3M will launch their MPro110 mini projector later this month. With its composite video input, you can use it for presentations, playing games, or watching movies. You can even connect you iPod to the projector ...
Slicing solar power costs: New method cuts waste in making most efficient solar cells
Sep 15, 2008 |
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University of Utah engineers devised a new way to slice thin wafers of the chemical element germanium for use in the most efficient type of solar power cells. They say the new method should lower the cost ...
Small glaciers -- not large -- account for most of Greenland's recent loss of ice, study shows
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 15, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The recent dramatic melting and breakup of a few huge Greenland glaciers have fueled public concerns over the impact of global climate change, but that isn't the island's biggest problem.
Alternative Renewable Bio-Fuel Sources: Camelina Sativa and Switchgrass
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INEOS Enterprises of the UK has entered into a partnership agreement with Great Plains-The Camelina Company for the purpose of expanding their bio-diesel enterprises world-wide. Great Plains-The Camelina ...
Immigrant Sun: Our star could be far from where it started in Milky Way
Sep 15, 2008 |
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A long-standing scientific belief holds that stars tend to hang out in the same general part of a galaxy where they originally formed. Some astrophysicists have recently questioned whether that is true, and ...
Flower-shaped nanoparticles may lead to better batteries for portable electronics
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 15, 2008 |
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Want more power and longer battery life for that cell phone, laptop, and digital music player? "Flower power" may be the solution. Chemists are reporting development of flower-shaped nanoparticles with superior electronic ...
Water purification down the nanotubes
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Sep 15, 2008 |
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Nanotechnology could be the answer to ensuring a safe supply of drinking water for regions of the world stricken by periodic drought or where water contamination is rife. Writing in the International Journal of Nuclear De ...
Low-emission, high-performance engine for future hybrids
Sep 15, 2008 |
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In an advance toward introduction of an amazing new kind of internal combustion engine, researchers in China are reporting development and use of a new and more accurate computer model to assess performance ...
Why we vote the way we do
Sep 15, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- So you're standing in the election booth. You look at the names in front of you: McCain and Obama. Chances are, by now you know who you're going to vote for. But what went into that decision?
Two beta blockers found to also protect heart tissue
Sep 15, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A newly discovered chemical pathway that helps protect heart tissue can be stimulated by two of 20 common beta-blockers, drugs that are prescribed to millions of patients who have experienced heart failure.
Common bronchodilator linked to increased deaths
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A common bronchodilator drug which has been used for more than a decade by patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has been linked to a one-third higher risk of cardiovascular-related deaths.
Potential new drug for cocaine addiction and overdose
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Chemists are reporting development of what they term the most powerful substance ever discovered for eliminating cocaine from the body, an advance that could lead to the world's first effective medicine for ...
