Splitting Water with Sunlight
Sep 25, 2007 |
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Hydrogen is one of the most important fuels of the future, and the sun will be one of our most important sources of energy. Why not combine the two to produce hydrogen directly from solar energy without any detours involving ...
Clever plants chat over their own network
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Sep 25, 2007 |
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Recent research from Vidi researcher Josef Stuefer at the Radboud University Nijmegen reveals that plants have their own chat systems that they can use to warn each other. Therefore plants are not boring and passive organisms ...
It's all in the spin: Quantum physics cools down computers
Sep 25, 2007 |
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The future of Moore's famous law—that the number of transistors squeezed onto a computer chip can be doubled about every two years—is widely seen as threatened by the damaging heat generated by the chips themselves as their ...
Scientists discover how cancer may take hold
Sep 25, 2007 |
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A team, led by researchers at the Carnegie Institution, has found a key biochemical cycle that suppresses the immune response, thereby allowing cancer cells to multiply unabated. The research shows how the biomolecules responsible ...
'Hot' ice could lead to medical device
Sep 25, 2007 |
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Harvard physicists have shown that specially treated diamond coatings can keep water frozen at body temperature, a finding that may have applications in future medical implants.
Ancient wall found in Iran
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Sep 25, 2007 |
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Archaeologists in northern Iran have uncovered the remains of a 124-mile-long wall, the second longest such structure in Asia after the Great Wall of China.
Printing in 3-D
Sep 25, 2007 |
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It is a simple matter to print an E-book or other document directly from your computer, whether that document is on your hard drive, at a web site or in an email. But, imagine being able to 'print' solid objects, a piece ...
NASA finds Greenland snow melting hit record high in high places
Sep 25, 2007 |
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A new NASA-supported study reports that 2007 marked an overall rise in the melting trend over the entire Greenland ice sheet and, remarkably, melting in high-altitude areas was greater than ever at 150 percent ...
A new look at the proton
Sep 25, 2007 |
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Dutch researcher Paul van der Nat investigated more than three million collisions between electrons and protons. In his PhD thesis he demonstrates -- for the first time -- that the spin contribution of quarks to the proton ...
Researchers set new record for brightness of quantum dots
Sep 25, 2007 |
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By placing quantum dots on a specially designed photonic crystal, researchers at the University of Illinois have demonstrated enhanced fluorescence intensity by a factor of up to 108. Potential applications include high-brightness ...
Boys have biological reason to be troublesome
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 25, 2007 |
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A team of researchers working with UQ's Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) has discovered more compelling evidence that attention-deficit disorder in young boys is substantially attributable to brain development.
Researchers Develop Nanoblade
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 25, 2007 |
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Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have created a razor-like material that is truly on the “cutting edge” of nanotechnology. Called nanoblades, these first-of-their-kind magnesium nanomaterials ...
Chemists Develop Easier Way To Find Platinum, Other Rare Metals
Sep 25, 2007 |
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Finding uses for palladium and platinum-rare precious metals coveted by the automobile, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries as catalysts in chemical reactions-proves easier than finding the scarce materials themselves.
Biometric Passport Control: No Place To Hide
Sep 25, 2007 |
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Siemens is making border crossings in Europe more secure through biometric systems that store individual characteristics such as fingerprints and facial photos on a chip integrated into a passport.
Nosespray vaccine using aloe vera has exciting potential, researcher says
Medicine & Health / Medications
Sep 25, 2007 |
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Researchers at Texas A&M University are participating in developing a medicine that is worth sneezing about: a treatment for influenza that forms a jelly when sprayed into the nose.
