Research overturns accepted notion of neutron's electrical properties
Sep 17, 2007 |
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For two generations of physicists, it has been a standard belief that the neutron, an electrically neutral elementary particle and a primary component of an atom, actually carries a positive charge at its center and an offsetting ...
Nanoscale computer memory retrieves data 1,000 times faster
Sep 17, 2007 |
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Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania have developed nanowires capable of storing computer data for 100,000 years and retrieving that data a thousand times faster than existing portable memory devices such as Flash ...
Can't Take My Eyes Off You: New Study Shows The Power Of Attraction
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 17, 2007 |
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Whether we are seeking a mate or sizing up a potential rival, good-looking people capture our attention nearly instantaneously and render us temporarily helpless to turn our eyes away from them, according to a new Florida ...
Scientists unlock secrets of protein folding
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Sep 17, 2007 |
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A team led by biophysicist Jeremy Smith of the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory has taken a significant step toward unraveling the mystery of how proteins fold into unique, three-dimensional shapes.
Magellanic clouds: Single measurement throws out everything we thought we knew
Sep 17, 2007 |
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The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) are two of the Milky Way's closest neighboring galaxies. A stunning sight in the southern hemisphere, they were named after Ferdinand Magellan, ...
Nanotech could make solar energy as easy and cheap as growing grass
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 17, 2007 |
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Scientists are working to produce cheap, sustainable solar energy by imitating nature. Nanotechnology researchers like California Institute of Technology professor Nate Lewis are exploring nanoscale materials that mimic the ...
Researchers shed new light on hybrid animals
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Sep 17, 2007 |
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What began more than 50 years ago as a way to improve fishing bait in California has led a University of Tennessee researcher to a significant finding about how animal species interact and that raises important ...
New nanoparticle vaccine is more effective but less expensive
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Sep 17, 2007 |
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Good news for public health: Bioengineering researchers from the EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, have developed and patented a nanoparticle that can deliver vaccines more effectively, with fewer side effects, and at a fraction ...
Working hard or hardly working? Researcher studies effects of job simplification on employee productivity
Sep 17, 2007 |
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Outsourcing. Offshoring. Compartmentalizing. More than corporate buzzwords, these trends are redefining the nature of work for millions of Americans, as well as their counterparts all over the world. But what are the ramifications ...
Brain's messengers could be regulated, researchers find
Sep 17, 2007 |
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Researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory have found that tiny, spontaneous releases of the brain's primary chemical messengers can be regulated, potentially giving scientists unprecedented ...
New Method of Studying Ancient Fossils Points to Carbon Dioxide As a Driver of Global Warming
Sep 17, 2007 |
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A team of American and Canadian scientists has devised a new way to study Earth's past climate by analyzing the chemical composition of ancient marine fossils. The first published tests with the method further support the ...
Argonne physicists create landmark accelerator gradient
Sep 17, 2007 |
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The Argonne Wakefield Accelerator Group (AWA) works on particle accelerators in much the same way that horsepower junkies work on muscle cars. Although their research doesn't involve turbochargers, stall torque ...
Cyprian honeybees kill their enemy by smothering them
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Sep 17, 2007 |
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For the first time, researchers have discovered that when Cyprian honeybees mob and kill their arch enemy, the Oriental hornet, the cause of death is asphyxiation. They reported their findings in the September 18, 2007, issue ...
Scientists identify fundamental brain defect, probable drug target in fragile X syndrome
Sep 17, 2007 |
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Scientists have discovered how the gene mutation responsible for fragile X syndrome--the most common inherited form of mental retardation--alters the way brain cells communicate. In neurons cultured from laboratory rats, ...
Scientists reveal DNA-enzyme interaction with first ever real time footage
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Sep 17, 2007 |
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For the first time scientists have been able to film, in real time, the nanoscale interaction of an enzyme and a DNA strand from an attacking virus. Researchers from the University of Cambridge have used a revolutionary Scanning ...
