Advance brings low-cost, bright LED lighting closer to reality
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Researchers at Purdue University have overcome a major obstacle in reducing the cost of "solid state lighting," a technology that could cut electricity consumption by 10 percent if widely adopted.
Students who use 'clickers' score better on physics tests
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Hand-held electronic devices called clickers are helping college students learn physics, according to a series of research studies.
Researchers Discover Remnant of an Ancient 'RNA World'
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Some bacterial cells can swim, morph into new forms and even become dangerously virulent - all without initial involvement of DNA. Yale University researchers describe Friday in the journal ...
'Nanosculpture' could enable new types of heat pumps, energy converters
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 17, 2008 |
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A new technique for growing single-crystal nanorods and controlling their shape using biomolecules could enable the development of smaller, more powerful heat pumps and devices that harvest electricity from ...
A single boulder may prove that Antarctica and North America were once connected
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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A lone granite boulder found against all odds high atop a glacier in Antarctica may provide additional key evidence to support a theory that parts of the southernmost continent once were connected to North ...
New kind of MRI enables study of magnets for computer memory
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(PhysOrg.com) -- What is there to see inside a magnet that's smaller than the head of a pin? Quite a lot, say physicists who've invented a new kind of MRI technique to do just that.
Drugs industry protecting 'morally unacceptable' patent system
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Major drugs companies are using fierce lobbying tactics to protect a pharmaceutical patent system that is "simply morally unacceptable", a world-leading political philosopher will tell a major meeting of UK and European pharmacologists ...
Three Red Spots Mix it Up on Jupiter
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(PhysOrg.com) -- This sequence of Hubble Space Telescope images offers an unprecedented view of a planetary game of Pac-Man among three red spots clustered together in Jupiter's atmosphere.
Obsessive compulsive disorder linked to brain activity
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Cambridge researchers have discovered that measuring activity in a region of the brain could help to identify people at risk of developing obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).
Super-Resolution X-ray Microscopy unveils the buried secrets of the nanoworld
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A novel super-resolution X-ray microscope developed by a team of researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) and EPFL in Switzerland combines the high penetration power of x-rays with high spatial resolution, ...
Professor talks about latest in Younger Dryas work in Science article
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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University of Cincinnati Professor of Geology Tom Lowell is featured in the July 18 issue of Science, discussing the latest research into the question of whether the significant climate change event about ...
Research Publications Online: Too Much of A Good Thing?
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The Internet gives scientists and researchers instant access to an astonishing number of academic journals. So what is the impact of having such a wealth of information at their fingertips? The answer, according ...
Emotional robots in the spotlight
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A robot with empathy sounds like the stuff of sci-fi movies, but with the aid of neural networks European researchers are developing robots in tune with our emotions. The tantalising work ...
Negative perception of blacks rises with more news watching, studies say
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Watching the news should make you more informed, but it also may be making you more likely to stereotype, says a University of Illinois researcher. In a pair of recently published studies, communication professor Travis Dixon ...
Fuel from food waste: bacteria provide power
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Researchers have combined the efforts of two kinds of bacteria to produce hydrogen in a bioreactor, with the product from one providing food for the other. According to an article in the August issue of Microbiology Today, this t ...
