A Boost for Hydrogen Fuel Cell Research
Jan 25, 2007 |
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The development of hydrogen fuel cells for vehicles, the ultimate green dream in transportation energy, is another step closer. Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ...
Dark Energy And The Inverse Square Law
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“Newton’s inverse-square law has been around for a while,” Daniel Kapner tells PhysOrg.com. “But, by testing this law, we’re looking for new physics.” The new physics Kapner and his colleagues are looking for in their recent ...
Molecular link between inflammation and cancer discovered
Jan 25, 2007 |
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A team led by biochemists at the University of California, San Diego has found what could be a long-elusive mechanism through which inflammation can promote cancer. The findings may provide a new approach ...
No One Strategy Is Best For Teaching Reading, Study Shows
Jan 25, 2007 |
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For decades, a debate has simmered in the educational community over the best way to teach children how to read. Proponents of phonics, the "whole language and meaning" approach and other teaching methods long have battled ...
Sharp Develops Mass-Production Technology for Triple-Junction Thin-Film Solar Cells
Jan 25, 2007 |
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Sharp Corporation has successfully developed mass-production technology for stacked triple-junction thin-film solar cells by turning a conventional two-active-layer structure (amorphous silicon plus microcrystalline ...
'Hidden-Hero' Microbes In Soil, Water May Help Naturally Clean Toxic Sites
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Jan 25, 2007 |
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Buried under 243 acres in an East Tennessee valley adjacent to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Y-12 National Security Complex, toxic waste from weapons manufacturing at the facility between 1951 and 1983 leaches into ...
Brain-damaged smokers provide clues to anatomy of addiction: study
Jan 25, 2007 |
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Smokers with a damaged insula – a region in the brain linked to emotion and feelings – quit smoking easily and immediately, according to a study in the Jan. 26 issue of the journal Science. The study provides direct eviden ...
Unexpected cooling effect in Saturn's upper atmosphere
Jan 25, 2007 |
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UK researchers from University College London, along with colleagues from Boston University, have found that the hotter than expected temperature of Saturn's upper atmosphere – and that of the other giant planets ...
Why do we prefer some foods over others?
Jan 25, 2007 |
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When your stomach grumbles at lunchtime, and it's your turn at the deli counter, what will it be? Wheat bread or rye bread? Turkey or pastrami? Mayonnaise or mustard? Hold the pickle!
Scientists Manipulate Atoms on a Rough 3-D Surface
Jan 25, 2007 |
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Ohio University nanoscientists have used a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) to manipulate individual atoms on a rough terrain. It is the first atom manipulation of its kind done on a three-dimensional surface.
Coated nanoparticles solve sticky drug-delivery problem
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 25, 2007 |
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The layers of mucus that protect sensitive tissue throughout the body have an undesirable side effect: they can also keep helpful medications away. To overcome this hurdle, Johns Hopkins researchers have found a way to coat ...
Biomimetic Technologies Project Will Create First Soft-Bodied Robots
Jan 25, 2007 |
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While robots have moved from the realm of science fiction to a myriad of real-life uses, the potential of the “hard-bodied” robots of the 21st century remains limited by their stiff construction and lack of flexibility.
Pre-Columbian ruin discovered in Peru
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jan 25, 2007 |
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U.S. explorer Keith Muscutt says archeologists discovered a pre-Columbian ruin in Peru.
Beyond nature vs. nurture: Williams syndrome across cultures
Jan 25, 2007 |
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Nobody questions that the color of our eyes is encoded in our genes. When it comes to behavior the concept of "DNA as fate" quickly breaks down – it's been long accepted that both genes and the environment shape human behavior. ...
Have Gun, Will Travel (at Light Speed)
Jan 25, 2007 |
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The front third of the linac is undergoing an extreme makeover, metamorphosing into a first-of-its-kind hard x-ray free-electron laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS). But even with the engineering ...
