'WildCharger' leads wireless power revolution
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Nov 30, 2007 |
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WildCharge Inc.'s new wireless charging pad has recently won several awards and sparked the interest from the electronics, automobile, and furniture industries as one of the first wireless charging devices.
Scientists Locate Revved Up Chemical That Mimics Red Wine
Nov 30, 2007 |
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Scientists at Sirtris Pharmaceuticals have conducted research on fattened rodents to test the utility of a chemical that mimics resversatrol. Resversatrol is a key compound in red wine. After examining 500 thousand compounds, ...
New Underground Particle Detectors Proposed for Europe
Nov 30, 2007 |
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Three new giant underground particle detectors have been proposed for construction in Europe that could help achieve some major milestones in physics, such as verifying the decay of a proton, which has been theorized but ...
Nano-sized voltmeter measures electric fields deep within cells
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Nov 30, 2007 |
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A wireless, nano-scale voltmeter developed at the University of Michigan is overturning conventional wisdom about the physical environment inside cells. It may someday help researchers tackle such tricky medical issues as ...
Scientists map imprinted genes in human genome
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Scientists at Duke University have created the first map of imprinted genes throughout the human genome, and they say a modern-day Rosetta stone – a form of artificial intelligence called machine learning ...
Noctis Labyrinthus, labyrinth of the night
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 30, 2007 |
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These images taken by the High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), onboard ESA’s Mars Express imaged the Noctis Labyrinthus region, the ‘labyrinth of the night’ on Mars.
School leader resigns over science memo
Nov 30, 2007 |
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The head of the Texas Education Agency's science curriculum alleges she was forced to resign because of a memo about a talk on intelligent design.
Dark energy -- 10 years on
Nov 30, 2007 |
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Three quarters of our universe is made up of some weird, gravitationally repulsive substance that was only discovered ten years ago – dark energy. This month in Physics World, Eric Linder and Saul Perlmutter, both at the ...
String of Fullerene Pearls
Nov 30, 2007 |
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Under an atomic force microscope, the tiny structures look like fragments of nanoscopic pearl necklaces. In reality, the “pearls” are fullerene molecules that are linked together by means of a special fullerene-binding molecule. ...
Between water and rock -- a new science
Nov 30, 2007 |
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Water chemistry and mineralogy are scientific fields that have been around long enough to develop extensive knowledge and technologies. The boundary of water and rock, however, is not a thin wet line but the ...
Researchers obtain a snapshot clarifying how materials enter cells
Biology /
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A group of Purdue University researchers has captured a key step in the metabolic process that allows materials, such as nutrients and drug treatments, to move in and out of cells.
Using fMRI to study brain development
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Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a powerful noninvasive tool for studying brain activity in both humans and experimental animals. Most fMRI studies are carried out on adults, but this technique also has great ...
Options for saving the Amazon forest in the face of climate change
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 30, 2007 |
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A review, led by an Oxford University scientist, claims that intact parts of the Amazon forest are resilient to climatic drying and are unlikely to disappear if they can be sufficiently protected.
Study of social science PhDs recommends changes for 21st century
Nov 30, 2007 |
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The first multi-disciplinary study to examine the status of doctoral students in the social sciences at least five years after receiving their degree concludes that doctoral programs need to be brought into the 21st century.
Aurora Borealis breaks new grounds -- and old ice
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 30, 2007 |
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It can crush ice sideways and stay precisely on station to an accuracy of a metre. It can drill a hole 1,000 metres deep into the seabed while floating above 5,000 metres of ocean and it can generate 55 megawatts of power. ...
