Nano World: Black silicon for solar power
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 23, 2006 |
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Silicon surfaces rendered black by pits and bumps only nanometers or billionths of a meter large could in the future help make solar power cells more efficient.
Supercomputer Sets New Performance Record
Jun 23, 2006 |
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The world’s fastest supercomputer, BlueGene/L, set a new performance standard on June 22, 2006. Housed at Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, ...
Physicists size up the 'unitarity triangle'
Jun 23, 2006 |
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B factory experiments at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in the USA and at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) in Japan have reached a new milestone in the quest to understand ...
Global atmospheric carbon level may depend primarily on southernmost ocean
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 23, 2006 |
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Circulation in the waters near the Antarctic coast may be one of the planet's critical means of regulating levels of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere, according to Princeton researchers.
Diamond by-product of hydrogen production and storage method
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 23, 2006 |
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There may not be a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, but there appears to be nanocrystalline diamonds at the end of a process to produce and store hydrogen using anthracite coal.
Researchers reveal insights on silicon semiconductors
Jun 23, 2006 |
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"Smaller. Faster. Wildly complex." This could easily be the motto for semiconductors-the materials that, among lots of other advances in electronics, allow cell phones to continuously shrink in size while increasing ...
New method sorts nanotubes by size
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 23, 2006 |
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Rice University scientists have developed the first method for sorting semiconducting carbon nanotubes based on their size, a long-awaited development that could form the basis of a nanotube purification system ...
Viagra studied for multiple uses
Jun 23, 2006 |
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California researchers have discovered entirely new applications for Viagra, the first erectile dysfunction drug to win federal approval.
Americans Have Fewer Friends Outside the Family, Study Shows
Jun 23, 2006 |
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Americans’ circle of confidants has shrunk dramatically in the past two decades and the number of people who say they have no one with whom to discuss important matters has more than doubled, according to a new study by sociologists ...
Cannibal study darkens mad cow outlook
Jun 23, 2006 |
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A British researcher, using a study of cannibals, warns that mad cow disease may eventually kill lot more humans than is known now.
Researchers Develop New Model of Ice Volume Change Based on Earth's Orbital Patterns
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 23, 2006 |
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Through dated geological records scientists have known for decades that variations in the Earth’s orbit around the sun – subtle changes in the distance between the two – control ice ages. But, for the first 2 million years ...
Company Name Influences Stock Performance
Jun 23, 2006 |
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The ease of pronouncing the name of a company and its stock ticker symbol influences how well that stock performs in the days immediately after its initial public offering, two Princeton University psychologists ...
Mercury Messenger Probe Flips Sunshade Towards The Sun
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 23, 2006 |
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The Messenger spacecraft performed its final "flip" maneuver for the mission on June 21. Responding to commands sent from the Messenger Mission Operations Center at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics ...
Wind farm cuts eagle population
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Jun 23, 2006 |
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Britain's Royal Society for the Protection of Birds says a wind farm off the Norwegian coast has reduced the population of Europe's largest eagle.
How plants avoid feeling the burn
Biology /
Jun 23, 2006 |
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Too much sun – for plants as well as people – can be harmful to long-term health. But to avoid the botanical equivalent of "lobster tans," plants have developed an intricate internal defense mechanism, called photoprotection, ...
