First Solar: Quest for the $1 Watt July 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 39 vote(s)
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Photovoltaic cells, once so costly they could be used only to power million-dollar satellites, are today turning up even on humble parking meters. Now a brash Tempe, Ariz., company called First Solar plans to take the technology ... | |
Creators of Scrabble knockoff on Facebook sued 9 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
(AP) -- T-R-O-U-B-L-E could loom for a Scrabble knockoff that has become one of the most popular activities on Facebook. | |
 Hitachi, GE to develop smaller nuclear reactors July 23, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Japan's Hitachi and US giant General Electric will team up to sell midsize nuclear reactors to meet growing demand for power facilities in Southeast Asia, a Hitachi spokesman said Wednesday. | |
Study: Typhoons bury tons of carbon in the oceans 12 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 3
A single typhoon in Taiwan buries as much carbon in the ocean -- in the form of sediment -- as all the other rains in that country all year long combined. That's the finding of an Ohio State University study published in ... | |
 Engineers Prove Graphene is the Strongest Material July 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Research scientists at Columbia University’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science have achieved a breakthrough by proving that the carbon material graphene is the strongest ... | |
Plant steroids offer new paradigm for how hormones work 11 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Steroids bulk up plants just as they do human athletes, but the playbook of molecular signals that tell the genes to boost growth and development in plant cells is far more complicated than in human and animal cells. A new ... | |
 Electron microscopy enters the picometer scale 11 hours ago | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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Jülich scientists have succeeded in precisely measuring atomic spacings down to a few picometres using new methods in ultrahigh-resolution electron microscopy. This makes it possible to find out decisive parameters ... | |
 Trench on Mars Ready for Next Sampling by NASA Lander 9 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has groomed the bottom of a shallow trench to prepare for collecting a sample to be analyzed from a hard subsurface layer where the soil may contain frozen water. ... | |
 Unique fossil discovery shows Antarctic was once much warmer July 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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A new fossil discovery- the first of its kind from the whole of the Antarctic continent- provides scientists with new evidence to support the theory that the polar region was once much warmer. | |
 Los Angeles bans plastic bagging in stores July 23, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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The city of Los Angeles announced it will ban all plastic bags from retail stores as of July 1, 2010, following similar anti-pollution regulations already enforced in San Francisco. | |
Ancient Galactic Magnetic Fields Stronger than Expected July 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Mining the far reaches of the universe for clues about its past, a team of scientists including Philipp Kronberg of Los Alamos National Laboratory has proposed that magnetic fields of ancient galaxies like ... | |
The Quiet Explosion: Object intermediate between normal supernovae and gamma-ray bursts found 11 hours ago | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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A European-led team of astronomers are providing hints that a recent supernova may not be as normal as initially thought. Instead, the star that exploded is now understood to have collapsed into a black hole, producing a ... | |
Genetic mutation identified for eye complaint 10 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | User comments: 1
An international research collaboration including research teams from the Children's Hospital in Boston (USA), King's College London and the Peninsula Medical School, has identified a gene that, when mutated, causes Duane ... | |
Toxic chemicals found in common scented laundry products, air fresheners July 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 30 vote(s)
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A University of Washington study of top-selling laundry products and air fresheners found the products emitted dozens of different chemicals. All six products tested gave off at least one chemical regulated as toxic or hazardous ... | |
 Phoenix Mars Lander Works Through the Night July 22, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- To coordinate with observations made by an orbiter flying repeatedly overhead, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is working a schedule Monday that includes staying awake all night for the first time. ... | |
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