Scientists mimic essence of plants' energy storage system
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In a revolutionary leap that could transform solar power from a marginal, boutique alternative into a mainstream energy source, MIT researchers have overcome a major barrier to large-scale solar power: storing ...
Phoenix Mars Lander Confirms Martian Water
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Laboratory tests aboard NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander have identified water in a soil sample. The lander's robotic arm delivered the sample Wednesday to an instrument that identifies vapors produced ...
Researchers Produce Best-Yet Dye-Based Solar Cells
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In work that may help solar panels become a more viable source of mainstream power, a research group has created a dye-based solar cell with a high efficiency and high stability, and that lacks the volatile chemicals used ...
Researchers fuel the next generation of hybrid cars
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Monash University scientists have revolutionised the design of fuel cells used in the latest generation of hybrid cars which could make the vehicles more reliable and cheaper to build.
Researchers analyze material with 'colossal ionic conductivity'
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A new material characterized at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory could open a pathway toward more efficient fuel cells.
Exercise in a Pill
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Trying to reap the health benefits of exercise? Forget treadmills and spin classes, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies may have found a way around the sweat and pain. They identified ...
Scientists carve functional nanoribbons using super-heated, nano-sized particles of iron
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Due to its remarkable electronic properties, few layer graphene, or FLG, has emerged as a promising new material for use in post-silicon devices that incorporate the quantum effects that emerge at the nanoscale. Now, physicists ...
Brian May, guitarist for rock band Queen, completes Ph.D. thesis following 30-year hiatus
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
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Brian May, the guitarist and founding member of the legendary rock band Queen, earned his PhD in astronomy last year from Imperial College London. His PhD thesis A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud has ju ...
Cold and ice, not heat, episodically gripped tropical regions 300 million years ago
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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Geoscientists have long presumed that, like today, the tropics remained warm throughout Earth's last major glaciation 300 million years ago.
Scientists demonstrate potential of graphene films as next-generation transistors
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Physicists at the University of Pennsylvania have characterized an aspect of graphene film behavior by measuring the way it conducts electricity on a substrate. This milestone advances the potential application of graphene, ...
'Small' research at MSU leads to advances in energy, electronics
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
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A Michigan State University researcher and his students have developed a nanomaterial that makes plastic stiffer, lighter and stronger and could result in more fuel-efficient airplanes and cars as well as ...
Researchers find dual-use sexual attraction and population-control chemicals in nematodes
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Organisms ranging from humans to plants to the lowliest bacterium use molecules to communicate. Some chemicals trigger the various stages of an organism's development, and still others are used to attract members of the opposite ...
Mother Earth naked -- a modern masterpiece
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 31, 2008 |
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Have you ever wondered what our world would look like stripped bare of all plants, soils, water and man-made structures? Well wonder no longer; images of the Earth as never seen before have been unveiled in what is the world's ...
Dust and gas in the early universe
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Researchers believe that our universe began with the Big Bang about 13 billion years ago, and that soon after that event, matter began to form as small dust grains and gases. How the first stars formed from ...
Viterbi Algorithm goes quantum
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The Viterbi Algorithm, the elegant 41-year-old logical tool for rapidly eliminating dead end possibilities in data transmission, has a new application to go alongside its ubiquitous daily use in cell phone ...
