Light throws a curve ball
Sep 29, 2008 |
4.7 / 5 (113) |
15
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of St Andrews have made a surprise discovery using light beams that can travel around corners.
New study proves that pain is not a symptom of arthritis, pain causes arthritis
Sep 29, 2008 |
4.7 / 5 (83) |
3
Pain is more than a symptom of osteoarthritis, it is an inherent and damaging part of the disease itself, according to a study published today in journal Arthritis and Rheumatism. More specifically, the study revealed that p ...
Breakthrough for carbon nanotube materials
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 29, 2008 |
4.5 / 5 (84) |
15
(PhysOrg.com) -- In collaboration with scientists from the NanoTech Institute of the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) – CSIRO has achieved a major breakthrough in the development of a commercially-viable ...
Evidence that inexpensive device boosts fuel economy by up to 20 percent
Sep 29, 2008 |
4.3 / 5 (84) |
25
Amid sticker-shock fuel prices, researchers in Pennsylvania are reporting results of laboratory tests and road tests verifying that a simple, inexpensive device attached to a car engine's fuel injector can ...
Mars Lander Sees Falling Snow, Soil Data Suggest Liquid Past
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 29, 2008 |
4.5 / 5 (32) |
2
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has detected snow falling from Martian clouds. Spacecraft soil tests experiments also have provided evidence of past interaction between minerals and liquid water, ...
Micro honeycomb materials enable new physics in aircraft sound reduction
Sep 29, 2008 |
4.8 / 5 (24) |
1
Noise from commercial and military jet aircraft causes environmental problems for communities near airports, obliging airplanes to follow often complex noise-abatement procedures on takeoff and landing. It ...
Hawaiian Vog: Where There's Smoke--There is Something Brewing
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 29, 2008 |
4.7 / 5 (24) |
6
The Kilauea Volcano located on the Big Island of Hawaii is currently registering an Orange Alert which means the volcano is exhibiting a heightened or elevated risk of eruption or is erupting with minor or ...
Researchers attribute thinning of Greenland glacier to ocean warming preceded by atmospheric changes
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 29, 2008 |
3.8 / 5 (26) |
18
The sudden thinning in 1997 of Jakobshavn Isbræ, one of Greenland's largest glaciers, was caused by subsurface ocean warming, according to research published in the journal Nature Geoscience. The research team traces these ...
Carbon dioxide 'scrubber' captures greenhouse gases
Sep 29, 2008 |
3.7 / 5 (23) |
15
University of Calgary climate change scientist David Keith and his team are working to efficiently capture the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide directly from the air, using near-commercial technology.
Experiment demonstrates 110 years of sustainable agriculture
Biology /
Sep 29, 2008 |
4.3 / 5 (19) |
1
A plot of land on the campus of Auburn University shows that 110 years of sustainable farming practices can produce similar cotton crops to those using other methods.
Common insecticide can decimate tadpole populations
Sep 29, 2008 |
4.7 / 5 (15) |
2
The latest findings of a University of Pittsburgh-based project to determine the environmental impact of routine pesticide use suggests that malathion—the most popular insecticide in the United States—can decimate tadpole ...
Meat-eating dinosaur from Argentina had bird-like breathing system
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Sep 29, 2008 |
4.5 / 5 (15) |
2
The remains of a 30-foot-long predatory dinosaur discovered along the banks of Argentina's Rio Colorado is helping to unravel how birds evolved their unusual breathing system.
Researchers identify mechanism used by gene to promote metastasis in human cancer cells
Sep 29, 2008 |
4.9 / 5 (12) |
0
Virginia Commonwealth University Institute of Molecular Medicine and VCU Massey Cancer Center researchers have discovered how a gene, melanoma differentiation associated gene-9/syntenin (mda-9/syntenin), interacts with an ...
The 'Magnificent 7' of European astroparticle physics unveiled to the world
Sep 29, 2008 |
4.1 / 5 (13) |
0
Today Europeans presented to the world their strategy for the future of astroparticle physics. What is dark matter? What is the origin of cosmic rays? What is the role of violent cosmic processes? Can we detect gravitational ...
New formula predicts how people will migrate in coming decades
Sep 29, 2008 |
4 / 5 (12) |
1
Nearly 200 million people now live outside their country of birth. But the patterns of migration that got them there have proven difficult to project. Now scientists at Rockefeller University, with assistance from the United ...
