H2CAR could fuel entire U.S. transportation sector
Apr 24, 2007 |
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In a recent study, scientists have demonstrated that a hybrid system of hydrogen and carbon can produce a sufficient amount of liquid hydrocarbon fuels to power the entire U.S. transportation sector. Using ...
Discovery of new family of pseudo-metallic chemicals
Apr 24, 2007 |
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The periodic table of elements, all 111 of them, just got a little competition. A new discovery by a University of Missouri-Columbia research team, published in Angewandte Chemie allows scientists to manipulate a molecule discov ...
Scientists make major breakthrough in regenerative medicine
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Apr 24, 2007 |
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Findings described in a new study by Stanford scientists may be the first step toward a major revolution in human regenerative medicine—a future where advanced organ damage can be repaired by the body itself. In the May 2007 ...
Next-generation, high-performance processor unveiled
Technology / Computer Sciences
Apr 24, 2007 |
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The prototype for a revolutionary new general-purpose computer processor, which has the potential of reaching trillions of calculations per second, has been designed and built by a team of computer scientists ...
Revamped experiment could detect elusive particle, physicists say
Apr 24, 2007 |
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An experiment called "shining light through walls" would seem hard to improve upon. But University of Florida physicists have proposed a way to do just that, a step they say considerably improves the chance of detecting one ...
Hubble's 17th anniversary -- extreme star birth in the Carina Nebula
Apr 24, 2007 |
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Hubble's new view of the Carina Nebula shows the process of star birth at a new level of detail. The bizarre landscape of the nebula is sculpted by the action of outflowing winds and scorching ultraviolet ...
Meeting the ethanol challenge: Scientists use supercomputer to target cellulose bottleneck
Apr 24, 2007 |
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Termites and fungi already know how to digest cellulose, but the human process of producing ethanol from cellulose remains slow and expensive. The central bottleneck is the sluggish rate at which the cellulose ...
Global warming creates an island
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 24, 2007 |
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An island has separated from mainland Greenland because of global climate change.
Sea snails break the law
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Apr 24, 2007 |
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Lizards gave rise to legless snakes. Cave fishes don’t have eyeballs. In evolution, complicated structures often get lost. Dollo’s Law states that complicated structures can't be re-evolved because the genes ...
New car smell is bad for you
Apr 24, 2007 |
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That "new car smell" can be hazardous to your health, The Ecology Center, a Berkeley, Calif., environmental group said.
Blu-ray Burning Its High-def DVD Rival
Apr 24, 2007 |
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Of the high-definition discs bought by consumers in the first quarter, 70 percent were in the Blu-ray Disc format and 30 percent were HD DVD, according to sales figures provided by trade publication Home Media Magazine.
New model describes avalanche behavior of superfluid helium
Apr 24, 2007 |
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By utilizing ideas developed in disparate fields, from earthquake dynamics to random-field magnets, researchers at the University of Illinois have constructed a model that describes the avalanche-like, phase-slip cascades ...
U.S. Falling Behind in Broadband Penetration
Apr 24, 2007 |
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The U.S. Senate will be told Tuesday that the U.S. is barely above the midpoint of broadband deployment within developed nations – and it's getting worse.
AMD Sets Prices on New Opteron Models
Apr 24, 2007 |
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The company first introduced the two models early this month and all four major OEMs are promising systems that incorporate the new chips.
Key found to kill cystic fibrosis superbug
Apr 24, 2007 |
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Researchers from the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at The University of Western Ontario , working with a group from Edinburgh, have discovered a way to kill the cystic fibrosis superbug, Burkholderia cenocepacia.
