In search of a light Higgs boson
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(PhysOrg.com) -- “It's pretty clear that the standard model of physics is not enough to explain all the phenomena in nature,” Tomasz Skwarnicki tells PhysOrg.com. “Through looking at a variety of phenomena – one of them b ...
Less ice in the Arctic Ocean 6000-7000 years ago
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 20, 2008 |
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Recent mapping of a number of raised beach ridges on the north coast of Greenland suggests that the ice cover in the Arctic Ocean was greatly reduced some 6000-7000 years ago. The Arctic Ocean may have been periodically ice ...
'A dinosaur dance floor': Numerous tracks at Jurassic oasis on Arizona-Utah border
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 20, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Utah geologists identified an amazing concentration of dinosaur footprints that they call "a dinosaur dance floor," located in a wilderness on the Arizona-Utah border where there ...
Climate Change, Acid Rain Could Be Good for Forests
Oct 20, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- After more than 20 years of research in the northern hardwood forests of Michigan, scientists at Michigan Technological University's School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science have reached a surprising ...
Do cell phones increase brain cancer risk?
Oct 20, 2008 |
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Major research initiatives are needed immediately to assess the possibility that using cellular phones may lead to an increased risk of brain tumors, according to an editorial in the November issue of the journal Surgical Ne ...
LEDs may help reduce skin wrinkles, researchers report
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Researchers in Germany are describing a potential alternative to Botox and cosmetic surgery for easing facial wrinkles. Their study, scheduled for the November 5 issue of ACS' Crystal Growth & Design report ...
Microscopic structure of quantum gases made visible
Oct 20, 2008 |
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Scientists at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany, have, for the first time, succeeded in rendering the spatial distribution of individual atoms in a Bose-Einstein condensate visible.
Flying Underwater, Staying Dry
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Rutgers physical oceanographer Scott Glenn and his students are flying a submersible robot glider, the Scarlet Knight, across the Atlantic – very slowly, underwater, and without getting wet.
Cosmic Lens Reveals Distant Galactic Violence
Oct 20, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- By cleverly unraveling the workings of a natural cosmic lens, astronomers have gained a rare glimpse of the violent assembly of a young galaxy in the early Universe. Their new picture suggests ...
Squeezing more synthetic fuel from abundant supplies of coal
Oct 20, 2008 |
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Scientists in Italy are reporting that a new process could eliminate key obstacles to expanded use of coal gasification to transform that abundant domestic energy resource into synthetic liquid fuels for cars and trucks. ...
Nanoscale coating protect products -- and the economy
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 20, 2008 |
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Put steel under a powerful microscope, revealing its microstructure, and prepare to be surprised. Known for its strength, the metal will appear pitted and pocked.
Engineering nanoparticles for maximum strength
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 20, 2008 |
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Because they are riddled with defects, bulk crystalline materials never achieve their ideal strength; nanocrystals, on the other hand, are so small there's no room for defects. Yet while nanocrystalline materials ...
Spinning natural proteins into fabrics for new wound-repair products
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 20, 2008 |
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Scientists in Israel are reporting the first successful spinning of a key natural protein into strong nano-sized fibers about 1/50,000th the width of a human hair. The advance could lead to a new generation ...
'Dry cleaning effect' explained by forgetful Yale researcher
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Yale researchers have described how dueling brain systems may explain why you forget to drop off the dry cleaning and may point to ways that substance abusers and people with obsessive compulsive disorder can overcome bad ...
Relationships Between Quantum Dots - Stability and Reproduction
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Theoretical proof of stable and measurable states extending over two quantum dots and creating offspring has now been provided for the first time. This supports the notion of what is known ...
