Researchers work toward spark-free, fuel-efficient engines
Jul 23, 2007 |
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In an advance that could help curb global demand for oil, MIT researchers have demonstrated how ordinary spark-ignition automobile engines can, under certain driving conditions, move into a spark-free operating ...
Atomic layer deposition fuels future solutions to nation's energy challenges
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 23, 2007 |
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More efficient and less costly solar cells, solid-state lighting and industrial catalysts are potential applications of atomic layer deposition (ALD), a technique that researchers at Argonne National Laboratory ...
Astronomers Discover Supergiant Star Spews Molecules Needed for Life
Jul 23, 2007 |
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University of Arizona astronomers who are probing the oxygen-rich environment around a supergiant star with one of the world's most sensitive radio telescopes have discovered a score of molecules that include ...
Indium arsenide may provide clues to quantum information processing
Jul 23, 2007 |
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“We’re not saying we’ve built a quantum computer,” Andreas Fuhrer tells PhysOrg.com, “but this is an important first step towards spin manipulation via the spin-orbit interaction.”
Interstellar Chemistry Gets More Complex With New Negatively-Charged Molecule Discovery
Jul 23, 2007 |
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Astronomers using data from the National Science Foundation’s Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) have found the largest negatively-charged molecule yet seen in space. The discovery of the third negatively-charged ...
Fruit fly gene from 'out of nowhere' is discovered
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Jul 23, 2007 |
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Scientists thought that most new genes were formed from existing genes, but Cornell researchers have discovered a gene in some fruit flies that appears to be unrelated to other genes in any known genome.
Polymer opal films shed new kind of light on nature
Jul 23, 2007 |
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Imagine cleaning out your refrigerator and being able to tell at a glance whether perishable food items have spoiled, because the packaging has changed its color, or being able to tell if your dollar bill is counterfeit simply ...
Staying out of jams
Jul 23, 2007 |
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What do sand, coal, cereal, ice cubes, marbles, gravel, sugar, pills, and powders have in common" They are all granular materials, members of an unruly family of substances that refuse to completely conform to the laws of ...
Archaeologists find key to Devon's Medieval past
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 23, 2007 |
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University of Exeter archaeologists may have found the key to Stokenham’s Medieval manor house. Along with local schools and members of the community, the team has been digging a site in the South Hams village throughout ...
Diet and regular soft drinks linked to increase in risk factors for heart disease
Jul 23, 2007 |
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Drinking more than one soft drink daily — whether it’s regular or diet — may be associated with an increase in the risk factors for heart disease, Framingham researchers reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart ...
Americans Warming to Nuclear Power - MIT Survey
Jul 23, 2007 |
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Americans' icy attitudes toward nuclear power are beginning to thaw, according to a new survey from MIT. The report also found a U.S. public increasingly unhappy with oil and more willing to develop alternative ...
Bending Polymers Provides Spontaneous Way to Duplicate Beauty of Nature
Jul 23, 2007 |
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There are many objects in nature, such as flowers, that are “pre-programmed” to develop into delicate, beautiful and intrically shaped forms. But can this pre-determined process be duplicated by man starting ...
Russia prepares for volcano eruption
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 23, 2007 |
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Residents of Kamchatka in far eastern Russia are on alert for yet another volcano eruption.
Unintended pregnancy predicts feelings that parenting is a burden
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 23, 2007 |
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The relationship between a mother and her infant is believed by many to be the foundation of healthy childhood development, but researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia have found pregnancy acceptance to be the ...
Bumblebees make bee line for gardens
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Jul 23, 2007 |
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Britain's gardens are vital habitats for nesting bumblebees, new research has found. The results come from the National Bumblebee Nest Survey, which are published online in the British Ecological Society's Journal of Applied ...
