IBM researchers unveil green optical network technology prototype
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IBM researchers today unveiled the fastest and most highly integrated optical data bus ever developed. The prototype technology could bring massive amounts of bandwidth in an energy-efficient way to all kinds ...
New Method for Creating Tough Metallic Glass Composites
Feb 28, 2008 |
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Scientists at the California Institute of Technology have developed a new strategy for creating "liquid metal" that makes it able to bend significantly without breaking, while retaining a strength twice that of titanium. ...
ASU researcher may have discovered key to life before its origin on Earth
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An important discovery has been made with respect to the mystery of “handedness” in biomolecules. Researchers led by Sandra Pizzarello, a research professor at Arizona State University, found that some of the possible abiotic ...
New 'snapshots' aid quest for fusion energy
Feb 28, 2008 |
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Physicists at MIT and the University of Rochester have devised a new way to take "snapshots" of the high-energy, high-temperature reactions seen as key to achieving the long-held dream of controlled nuclear ...
Magnetic atoms of gold, silver and copper have been obtained
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An international team led by Physics and Chemistry teams from the Faculty of Science and Technology at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and directed by Professor Jose Javier Saiz Garitaonandia, has achieved, ...
Capturing Sunlight: Indoline Dyes Improve Efficiency of Solar Cells
Feb 28, 2008 |
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Solar cell technology is marching ahead, though it still struggles with the two problems: efficiency and high production costs. In collaboration with Satoshi Uchida at the University of Tokyo, Michael Grätzel ...
Scientists discover how cigarette smoke causes cancer
Feb 28, 2008 |
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Everyone has known for decades that that smoking can kill, but until now no one really understood how cigarette smoke causes healthy lung cells to become cancerous. In a new research report published in the March 2008 print ...
Dirty Space and Supernovae
Feb 28, 2008 |
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Interstellar space may be strewn with tiny whiskers of carbon, dimming the light of far-away objects. This discovery by scientists at the Carnegie Institution may have implications for the “dark energy” hypothesis, proposed ...
Has the mystery of the Antarctic ice sheet been solved?
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 28, 2008 |
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A team of scientists from Cardiff University’s School of Earth and Ocean Sciences and Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales travelled to Africa to find new evidence of climate change which helps explain some of the mystery ...
Does class size matter?
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No more vexing problem in education exists today than the achievement gap in this country. The difference between the extremes has rightfully attracted national attention, and one of the most popular policy proposals is ...
Blocking protein kills prostate cancer cells, inhibits tumor growth
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Researchers at Jefferson’s Kimmel Cancer Center in Philadelphia have shown that they can effectively kill prostate cancer cells in both the laboratory and in experimental animal models by blocking a signaling protein that ...
Electronic structure of DNA revealed for the first time
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 28, 2008 |
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Utilizing a technique that combines low temperature measurements and theoretical calculations, Hebrew University of Jerusalem scientists and others have revealed for the first time the electronic structure of single DNA molecules.
Rain, snow forms with aid of living organisms: study
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Brent Christner, LSU professor of biological sciences, in partnership with colleagues in Montana and France, recently found evidence that rain-making bacteria are widely distributed in the atmosphere. These ...
Breakthroughs in nanotechnology on edge of 'knowledge frontier'
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Feb 28, 2008 |
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University of Missouri scientist Kattesh Katti recently discovered how to make gold nanoparticles using gold salts, soybeans and water. Katti’s research has garnered attention worldwide and the environmentally-friendly discovery ...
Leading edge vortex allows bats to stay aloft
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Honey bees and hummingbirds can hover like helicopters for minutes at a time, sucking the juice from their favorite blossoms while staying aloft in a swirl of vortices.
