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In a world first, a Monash University-led international research team has developed an innovative way to boost the output of the next generation of solar cells. http://www.physorg.com/news178889850.html Chemistry Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:38:01 EST news178889850 Ohio State University cancer researchers have developed a tumor-attacking virus that both kills brain-tumor cells and blocks the growth of new tumor blood vessels. http://www.physorg.com/news178888627.html Medicine & Health Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:19:03 EST news178888627 Online social networks such as Facebook are being used to express and communicate real personality, instead of an idealized virtual identity, according to new research from psychologist Sam Gosling at The University of Texas at Austin. http://www.physorg.com/news178888379.html Medicine & Health Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:16:31 EST news178888379 To Charles Darwin it was an 'abominable mystery' and it is a question which has continued to vex evolutionists to this day: when did flowering plants evolve and how did they come to dominate plant life on earth? Today a study in Ecology Letters reveals the evolutionary trigger which led to early flowering plants gaining a major competitive advantage over rival species, leading to their subsequent boom and abundance. http://www.physorg.com/news178887468.html Biology Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:58:49 EST news178887468 (PhysOrg.com) -- Plastic cards with security features are ubiquitous these days, having a wide variety of uses such as credit cards, employee cards, licenses, and so on. Many have holographic images, but they are relatively easy to tamper with. Now researchers at SABIC Innovative Plastics and GE Global Research have developed a new class of thermoplastic holographic materials that embed holograms within the plastic of cards, making them virtually impossible to copy or alter. http://www.physorg.com/news178869483.html Technology Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:00:01 EST news178869483 Time-lapsed video of individual breast tissue cells reveals a never-before-seen event in the life of a cell: a protein that cycles between two major compartments in the cell. The results give researchers a more complete view of the internal signals that cause breast tissue cells to grow, events that go awry in cancer and are targets of drug development. http://www.physorg.com/news178879135.html Biology Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:39:58 EST news178879135 (PhysOrg.com) -- As technology shrinks ever smaller, interest in objects and devices on the nanoscale becomes more apparent. However, visualizing these objects in three dimensions comes with special challenges. Alexander Govyadinov, a scientist at the University of Pennsylvania, points out that imaging nano-objects in 3-D typically requires measurements of the optical phase, a task which is so difficult that it is rarely done. http://www.physorg.com/news178870057.html Physics Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:30:02 EST news178870057 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from Eindhoven University in The Netherlands have for the first time grown pork meat in the laboratory by extracting cells from a live pig and growing them in a petri dish. http://www.physorg.com/news178869104.html Biology Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:00:01 EST news178869104 Loneliness, like a bad cold, can spread among groups of people, research at the University of Chicago, the University of California-San Diego and Harvard shows. http://www.physorg.com/news178867501.html Medicine & Health Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:25:43 EST news178867501 Researchers have characterised a new multi drug resistant strain of Salmonella Typhimurium that is causing life-threatening disease in Africa. http://www.physorg.com/news178826947.html Biology Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:13:07 EST news178826947 (PhysOrg.com) -- New research by Simon Fraser University evolutionary biologist Bernard Crespi reinforces his theory that autism and schizophrenia are diametric or opposite conditions based on genes. http://www.physorg.com/news178822577.html Medicine & Health Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:50:02 EST news178822577 (PhysOrg.com) -- `There`s no crying in baseball!` So said Jimmy Dugan, the manager portrayed by Tom Hanks in the movie `A League of Their Own.` Not so fast, says Vince Waldron, an Arizona State University professor of communication studies who has spent years examining how people express emotions in the workplace. http://www.physorg.com/news178822776.html Other Sciences Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:50:01 EST news178822776 (PhysOrg.com) -- The first experiment using the Linac Coherent Light Source to illuminate molecules via a "pump-probe" technique has been completed by an international team of more than 30 scientists from institutions including Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, LCLS and the joint SLAC/Stanford PULSE Institute. Ryan Coffee, physicist with the LCLS Laser Group, presented initial results in a seminar at SLAC on Wednesday, November 18. http://www.physorg.com/news178822370.html Physics Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:30:03 EST news178822370 (PhysOrg.com) -- Lara Estroff and colleagues have taken a deep, detailed look at the way lab-created calcite crystals, similar to those found in nature, grow in tandem with proteins and other large molecules. http://www.physorg.com/news178823885.html Chemistry Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:19:17 EST news178823885 As the nation ponders its energy choices, Americans keep asking themselves: how can the country make better use of its resources and emit fewer greenhouse gases without hurting U.S. industries? A research project at Idaho National Laboratory may have part of the answer. http://www.physorg.com/news178821091.html Technology Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:10:01 EST news178821091 The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite named GOES-14, is being placed in on-orbit storage this month to await its call to duty. http://www.physorg.com/news178819478.html Space & Earth Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:00:02 EST news178819478 Super Earths are named for their size, but these planets - which range from about 2 to 10 Earth masses - could be superior to the Earth when it comes to sustaining life. They could also provide an answer to the ‘Fermi Paradox`: Why haven`t we been visited by aliens? http://www.physorg.com/news178821471.html Space & Earth Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:38:28 EST news178821471 Malaria parasites are able to disguise themselves to avoid the host's immune system, according to research funded by the Wellcome Trust and published today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. http://www.physorg.com/news178819230.html Medicine & Health Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:30:01 EST news178819230 New discoveries have been made about how an elevated level of lead, which is a neurotoxic heavy metal, can slow the progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease - findings that could point the way to a new type of therapy. http://www.physorg.com/news178820014.html Medicine & Health Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:16:05 EST news178820014 Religious people tend to use their own beliefs as a guide in thinking about what God believes, but are less constrained when reasoning about other people's beliefs, according to new study published in the Nov. 30 early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. http://www.physorg.com/news178819089.html Medicine & Health Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:59:26 EST news178819089 Pioneering research using human brain tissue removed from people suffering from epilepsy has opened the door to new treatments for the disease. http://www.physorg.com/news178818726.html Medicine & Health Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:56:07 EST news178818726 (PhysOrg.com) -- Bacteria don`t have easy lives. In addition to mammalian immune systems that besiege the bugs, they have natural enemies called bacteriophages, viruses that kill half the bacteria on Earth every two days. http://www.physorg.com/news178816618.html Chemistry Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:19:21 EST news178816618 A pet owner knows the enormous joy and comfort that an animal can provide, especially in troubled times. Most pets are considered important members of the family and irreplaceable companions. A growing body of research now documents the value of the human-animal bond in child development, elderly care, mental illness, physical impairment, dementia, abuse and trauma recovery, and the rehabilitation of incarcerated youth and adults. http://www.physorg.com/news178812795.html Other Sciences Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:30:02 EST news178812795 (PhysOrg.com) -- Vibrations from the environments we live and work in could be much more widely harnessed as a clean source of electricity, due to cutting-edge UK research. http://www.physorg.com/news178813490.html Technology Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:27:43 EST news178813490 The Naval Research Laboratory's Ion Tiger, a hydrogen-powered fuel cell unmanned air vehicle (UAV), has flown 26 hours and 1 minute carrying a 5-pound payload, setting another unofficial flight endurance record for a fuel-cell powered flight. The test flight took place on November 16th through 17th. http://www.physorg.com/news178810342.html Technology Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:00:01 EST news178810342 A University of Pittsburgh team overcame a major hurdle plaguing the development of nanomaterials such as those that could lead to more efficient catalysts used to produce hydrogen and render car exhaust less toxic. The researchers reported Nov. 29 in Nature Materials the first demonstration of high-temperature stability in metallic nanoparticles, the vaunted next-generation materials hampered by a vulnerability to extreme heat. http://www.physorg.com/news178810410.html Nanotechnology Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:34:21 EST news178810410 Scientists are building a clearer image of the machinery employed by bacteria to spread antibiotic resistance or cause diseases such as whooping cough, peptic stomach ulcers and legionnaires' disease. http://www.physorg.com/news178810154.html Biology Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:29:45 EST news178810154 There is a tiny period of time between the registration of a visual stimulus by the unconscious mind and our conscious recognition of it ― between the time we see an apple and the time we recognize it as an apple. Our minds lag behind our eyes, but by how long? And how does this affect our reactions to the world around us? http://www.physorg.com/news178809676.html Medicine & Health Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:21:41 EST news178809676 (AP) -- Huge sheets of glass are guided by robotic arms, sliding and turning in a towering germ-free plant, the world's first making giant "10th generation" panels for flat screen TVs. http://www.physorg.com/news178807044.html Technology Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:50:01 EST news178807044 An international team of applied scientists from Harvard, Hamamatsu Photonics, and ETH Zürich have demonstrated compact, multibeam, and multi-wavelength lasers emitting in the invisible part of the light spectrum (infrared). By contrast, typical lasers emit a single light beam of a well-defined wavelength. The innovative multibeam lasers have potential use in applications related to remote chemical sensing pollution monitoring, optical wireless, and interferometry. http://www.physorg.com/news178804893.html Physics Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:40:01 EST news178804893