First Successful Demonstration of Carbon Dioxide Air Capture Technology Achieved
Apr 25, 2007 |
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Global Research Technologies, LLC (GRT), a technology research and development company, and Klaus Lackner from Columbia University have achieved the successful demonstration of a bold new technology to capture ...
Rapid-fire: Electrical circuit may bring Sandia Z to fusion sooner
Apr 25, 2007 |
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An electrical circuit that should carry enough power to produce the long-sought goal of controlled high-yield nuclear fusion and, equally important, do it every 10 seconds, has undergone extensive preliminary ...
Astronomers find potentially habitable Earth-like planet
Apr 25, 2007 |
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Astronomers have discovered the most Earth-like planet outside our Solar System to date, an exoplanet with a radius only 50% larger than the Earth and capable of having liquid water. Using the ESO 3.6-m telescope, ...
Why nanowires make great photodetectors
Apr 25, 2007 |
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The geometry of semiconducting nanowires makes them uniquely suited for light detection, according to a new UC San Diego study that highlights the possibility of nanowire light detectors with single-photon ...
Scientists Unveil Internet-Controlled Robots That Anyone Can Build
Apr 25, 2007 |
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Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a new series of robots that are simple enough for almost anyone to build with off-the-shelf parts, but are sophisticated machines that wirelessly connect ...
Researchers Shatter World Records with Length of Latest Carbon Nanotube Arrays
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 25, 2007 |
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University of Cincinnati engineering researchers have developed a novel composite catalyst and optimal synthesis conditions for oriented growth of multi-wall CNT arrays. And right now they lead the world in ...
Morphine makes lasting -- and surprising -- change in the brain
Apr 25, 2007 |
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Morphine, as little as a single dose, blocks the brain’s ability to strengthen connections at inhibitory synapses, according to new Brown University research published in Nature.
Folding silicone: building on the microscale
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“With classical tools, it is hard to manipulate something so tiny as on the microscale or the nanoscale,” Charlotte Py tells PhysOrg.com. “But here we show how you can use a small drop of water as a micro- ...
The Emerging Fate Of The Neandertals
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 25, 2007 |
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For nearly a century, anthropologists have been debating the relationship of Neandertals to modern humans. Central to the debate is whether Neandertals contributed directly or indirectly to the ancestry of ...
Cosmologically speaking, diamonds may actually be forever
Apr 25, 2007 |
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If you’ve ever wondered about the ultimate fate of the universe, Lawrence Krauss and Robert Scherrer have some good news - sort of. In a paper published online on April 25 in the journal Physical Review D, the two physic ...
A Massive Explosion on the Sun
Apr 25, 2007 |
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Astronomers are calling the Japanese Hinode spacecraft a "Hubble for the sun." Watch this movie and you'll see why. ...
Water flows like molasses on the nanoscale
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A Georgia Tech research team has discovered that water exhibits very different properties when it is confined to channels less than two nanometers wide – behaving much like a viscous fluid with a viscosity ...
New Materials for Making 'Spintronic' Devices
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 25, 2007 |
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An interdisciplinary group of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory has devised methods to make a new class of electronic devices based on a property of electrons known ...
Browse digital media by flipping through a book
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Apr 25, 2007 |
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As the amount of information on the Internet, TV and radio continues to increase, one of the challenges users face is how to quickly find what they're looking for. As Jun-ichiro Watanabe of Hitachi Ltd. researched ...
You don't have to be smart to be rich, study finds
Apr 25, 2007 |
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It doesn't take a rocket scientist to make a lot of money, according to new research. A nationwide study found that people of below average intelligence were, overall, just about as wealthy as those in similar circumstances ...
