Electron filmed for first time ever
Feb 22, 2008 |
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Now it is possible to see a movie of an electron. The movie shows how an electron rides on a light wave after just having been pulled away from an atom. This is the first time an electron has ever been filmed, ...
Moth eyes may hold key to more efficient solar cells
Feb 22, 2008 |
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One of the difficulties with solar power is that solar cells are notoriously inefficient. Some of that inefficiency, says Peng Jiang, is due to the fact that silicon is reflective. Jiang, an assistant professor ...
Why Does Popcorn Cost So Much at the Movies?
Feb 22, 2008 |
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Movie theaters are notorious for charging consumers top dollar for concession items such as popcorn, soda, and candy. Are moviegoers just being gouged?
Special Coating Greatly Improves Solar Cell Performance
Feb 22, 2008 |
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The energy from sunlight falling on only 9 percent of California’s Mojave Desert could power all of the United States’ electricity needs if the energy could be efficiently harvested, according to some estimates. Unfortunately, ...
Scientists explain intriguing phenomenon on Saturn's moon
Feb 22, 2008 |
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An enormous plume of dust and water spurts violently into space from the south pole of Enceladus, Saturn's sixth-largest moon. This raging eruption has intrigued scientists ever since the Cassini spacecraft ...
Catalysis discovery takes aim at NOx emissions
Feb 22, 2008 |
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A discovery in molecular chemistry may help remove a barrier to widespread use of diesel and other fuel-efficient "lean burn" vehicle engines. Researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National ...
Psoriasis lesions loaded with newly discovered immune cell
Feb 22, 2008 |
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A new study of psoriasis patients shows that a recently discovered immune cell, called Th17, appears to be a key player in the disease and occurs in far higher concentrations in their skin than occurs in skin of healthy individuals.
Finding ingenious design in nature
Feb 22, 2008 |
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“This,” Joanna Aizenberg says slyly, picking up a latticed tube from her desk in Pierce Hall, “is a glass house you can throw stones at.”
Bacteria and nanofilters -- the future of clean water technology
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 22, 2008 |
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Bacteria often get bad press, with those found in water often linked to illness and disease. But researchers at The University of Nottingham are using these tiny organisms alongside the very latest membrane filtration techniques ...
Computers could be used to diagnose Alzheimer's disease
Feb 22, 2008 |
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Computers are able to diagnose Alzheimer's disease faster and more accurately than experts, according to research published in the journal Brain. The findings may help ensure that patients are diagnosed earlier, increasing treatm ...
Ulysses mission coming to a natural end
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 22, 2008 |
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Ulysses, the mission to study the Sun’s poles and the influence of our star on surrounding space is coming to an end. After more than 17 years in space – almost four times its expected lifetime – the mission ...
Salamanders, headwater streams critical in food chain
Biology /
Feb 22, 2008 |
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University of Missouri scientist Ray Semlitsch studies creatures most people don’t ever see. These creatures are active only at night and thrive in the shallow, cool, wet surroundings of headwater streams, an oft-overlooked ...
Proposed astronomy missions selected for further study by NASA
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 22, 2008 |
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NASA has awarded the University of Colorado at Boulder $1 million to lead the study of a space observatory to find Earth-like planets in distant solar systems and open the search for life outside our solar ...
Supermarkets hold power in milk supply chain
Feb 22, 2008 |
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A model of the British milk supply chain, produced by Oxford University economists, confirms the common belief that supermarkets currently hold the bargaining power.
Nomadic devices, the freedom to compute
Feb 22, 2008 |
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Today's mobile phones and other nomadic devices have the computing power to offer users many more applications than currently available. However, security concerns and costs are holding back developments in ...
