Unique Material May Allow Capacitors to Store More Energy
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Imagine an electric car with the same acceleration capability as a gas-powered sports car, or ultrafast rechargeable “batteries” that can be recharged a thousand times more than existing conventional batteries. According ...
Trapped, Imaged Single Atoms May Enable Powerful Quantum Computing
Jul 20, 2007 |
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Quantum computers have the potential to vastly out-perform present-day “classical” computers – if scientists can identify and manipulate promising quantum bits, or “qubits,” the basic information-storing units ...
Physicists get ultra-sharp glimpse of electrons
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MIT physicists have developed a spectroscopy technique that allows researchers to inspect the world of electrons confined to a two-dimensional plane more clearly than ever before.
Mars Rovers Braving Severe Dust Storms
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Jul 20, 2007 |
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Having explored Mars for three-and-a-half years in what were missions originally designed for three months, NASA's Mars rovers are facing perhaps their biggest challenge.
Researchers Find New Way To Fabricate Striped Nanorods
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Superlatticed or “striped" nanorods – crystalline materials only a few molecules in thickness and made up of two or more semiconductors – are highly valued for their potential to serve in a variety of nanodevices, ...
HiRISE Catches a Dust Devil on Mars
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Jul 20, 2007 |
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The University of Arizona-based High Resolution Imaging Experiment (HiRISE) group this week released a good look at a dust devil on Mars. This is not the storm bedeviling NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit ...
One species, many genomes
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Faster growth, darker leaves, a different way of branching - wild varieties of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana are often substantially different from the laboratory strain of this small mustard plant, a favorite ...
Genetic diversity in honeybee colonies boosts productivity
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Why do queen honeybees mate with dozens of males? Does their extreme promiscuity, perhaps, serve a purpose?
Electrical fields from everyday equipment and materials could increase infection risk
Jul 20, 2007 |
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Electrical fields generated by everyday electrical equipment such as computers, and excess static charge created by many modern materials, could be bad for your health, says new research published by Imperial ...
Researchers plumb mysteries of Antarctic Mountains
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 20, 2007 |
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The 3,000-kilometer-long Transantarctic Mountains are a dominant feature of the Antarctic continent, yet up to now scientists have been unable to adequately explain how they formed.
Study Sheds Light on Why Humans Walk on Two Legs
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A team of anthropologists that studied chimpanzees trained to use treadmills has gathered new evidence suggesting that our earliest apelike ancestors started walking on two legs because it required less energy ...
New study explains why anti-smoking ads backfire or succeed
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Some anti-smoking ads are simply ineffective, while others actually make youth more likely to light up. Fortunately, some are successful, and a new University of Georgia study helps explain why.
Rovers begin new observations on changing Martian atmosphere
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Jul 20, 2007 |
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Mars rover scientists have launched a new long-term study on the Martian atmosphere with the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer, an instrument that was originally developed at the University of Chicago.
Internet via power lines set to launch
Jul 20, 2007 |
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A plan to offer consumers Internet access through their home's power lines may soon come to fruition for residents of Grand Ledge, Mich.
Blood transfusions are unlikely to spread cancer
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Individuals who receive blood transfusions from donors with undiagnosed cancers are at no higher risk of developing malignant disease than people who receive blood from donors without cancer, according to the results of a ...
