A dash of lime -- a new twist that may cut CO2 levels back to pre-industrial levels
Jul 21, 2008 |
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Scientists say they have found a workable way of reducing CO2 levels in the atmosphere by adding lime to seawater. And they think it has the potential to dramatically reverse CO2 accumulation in the atmosphere, reports Cath ...
The Pole star comes to life again
Jul 21, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Northern Star, whose vibrations were thought to be dying away, appears to have come to life again.
First STM spectroscopy of graphene flakes yields new surprises
Jul 21, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have performed the first scanning tunneling spectroscopy of ...
Physicists shed light on key superconductivity riddle
Jul 21, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT physicists believe they have identified a mysterious state of matter that has been linked to the phenomenon of high-temperature superconductivity.
Closing the hydrogen economic loop
Jul 21, 2008 |
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The inventor of the nickel metal hydride (NiMH) technology used for building batteries for countless portable electronic gadgets and now hybrid gas-electric cars believes the hydrogen economy is already upon us.
Exotic materials using neptunium, plutonium provide insight into superconductivity
Jul 21, 2008 |
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Physicists at Rutgers and Columbia universities have gained new insight into the origins of superconductivity - a property of metals where electrical resistance vanishes - by studying exotic chemical compounds that contain ...
Microbes beneath sea floor genetically distinct
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Jul 21, 2008 |
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Tiny microbes beneath the sea floor, distinct from life on the Earth's surface, may account for one-tenth of the Earth's living biomass, according to an interdisciplinary team of researchers, but many of these minute creatures ...
Video released of rapid Alzheimer's improvement after new immune-based treatment
Jul 21, 2008 |
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New research into the treatment of Alzheimer's disease reports improvement in language abilities using a novel immune-based approach. A video accompanying the research, published today in the open access journal BMC Neurology, ...
Researchers find key to saving the world's lakes
Jul 21, 2008 |
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After completing one of the longest running experiments ever done on a lake, researchers from the University of Alberta, University of Minnesota and the Freshwater Institute, contend that nitrogen control, in which the European ...
New evidence of battle between humans and ancient virus
Jul 21, 2008 |
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For millennia, humans and viruses have been locked in an evolutionary back-and-forth -- one changes to outsmart the other, prompting the second to change and outsmart the first. With retroviruses, which work by inserting ...
'Snow flea antifreeze protein' could help improve organ preservation
Jul 21, 2008 |
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Scientists in Illinois and Pennsylvania are reporting development of a way to make the antifreeze protein that enables billions of Canadian snow fleas to survive frigid winter temperatures.
Lost castle solves riddle of Buckton Moor
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 21, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A mysterious monument standing on a windswept Lancashire hilltop for nearly a thousand years has been identified as one of England’s most important castles – causing a sensation among archaeologists.
90 billion tons of microbial organisms live in the deep biosphere
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Jul 21, 2008 |
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Biogeoscientists show evidence of 90 billion tons of microbial organisms—expressed in terms of carbon mass—living in the deep biosphere, in a research article published online by Nature, July 20, 2008. This t ...
Spitzer Reveals 'No Organics' Zone Around Pinwheel Galaxy
Jul 21, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Pinwheel galaxy is gussied up in infrared light in a new picture from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
Cranberry juice creates energy barrier that keeps bacteria away from cells, study shows
Jul 21, 2008 |
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For generations, people have consumed cranberry juice, convinced of its power to ward off urinary tract infections, though the exact mechanism of its action has not been well understood. A new study by researchers at Worcester ...
