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Looking for water on Mars
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 28, 2008 |
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NASA's Phoenix Scout Lander reached Mars on May 25,, opened a soils lab, and started looking for water. Phoenix uses a robotic scoop arm to deliver regolith samples to the suite of instruments aboard the Lander--with one ...
New York doctors testing heated chemo for rare cancer
Mar 05, 2009 |
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Long Island cancer doctors have borrowed a page from medicine's past to write a new chapter on how to address a rare malignancy by infusing heated chemotherapy directly into the abdomen using a heart-lung machine.
Tiny Test Tube Experiment Shows Reaction Of Melting Materials at the Nano Scale (w/ Video)
Oct 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have conducted a basic chemistry experiment in what is perhaps the world's smallest test tube, measuring a thousandth the diameter of a human hair.
Microwaving Water from Moondust (w/ Video)
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 08, 2009 |
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NASA is figuring out how to make water from moondust. Sounds like magic? "No magic--" says Ed Ethridge of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center "-- just microwaves. We're showing how microwaves can extract water ...
BlackBerry Bold sales suspended in Japan
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Feb 27, 2009 |
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Japanese mobile phone operator NTT DoCoMo said it suspended domestic sales Friday of the smart phone BlackBerry Bold after about 30 users reported the keyboards heated up during recharging.
Scientists manipulate ripples in graphene, enabling strain-based graphene electronics (w/ Video)
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Graphene is nature's thinnest elastic material and displays exceptional mechanical and electronic properties. Its one-atom thickness, planar geometry, high current-carrying capacity and thermal ...
Nano Dandelions: Bundles of cysteine-lead nanowires spread into highly oriented structures
Sep 03, 2007 |
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Under an electron microscope they look like dandelions. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, Xiao-Fang Shen and Xiu-Ping Yan explain their nanoscopic bouquets: They consist of spread-out bundles of nanowires made of lead and th ...
Xerox looks to make color printing more affordable
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
May 07, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The economics of color printing in big offices are simple: A page of black and white costs about 2 cents per page, while color runs about 8 cents.
The mysterious glaciers that grew when Asia heated up
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 27, 2009 |
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Long ago a group of Himalayan glaciers grew by several kilometers even while Central Asia's climate warmed up to six degrees Celsius. BYU professor Summer Rupper's analysis attributes much of the glacial growth to increased ...
Physicists create first robust DNA building blocks
Dec 09, 2005 |
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Physicists from the University of Oxford have designed the first structurally robust, self-assembling DNA building blocks. The DNA tetrahedra, 10,000,000,000 (ten thousand million) of which could fit on the ...
Nanoengineered concrete could cut CO2 emissions
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jan 29, 2007 |
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While government leaders argue about the practicality of reducing world emissions of carbon dioxide, scientists and engineers are seeking ways to make it happen.
Thermochemical nanolithography now allows multiple chemicals on a chip
Dec 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Georgia Tech have developed a nanolithographic technique that can produce high-resolution patterns of at least three different chemicals on a single chip at writing speeds of ...
New biomass heater: A 'new era' of efficiency and sustainability
Feb 11, 2009 |
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Millions of homes in rural areas of Far Eastern countries are heated by charcoal burned on small, hibachi-style portable grills. Scientists in Japan are now reporting development of an improved “biomass charcoal combustion ...
Do lava lamps and actual lava share similar characteristics?
Oct 14, 2009 |
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When Imre Jánosi's teenage daughter asked him how her new lava lamp worked, she probably expected a quick explanation. But her innocent question sent Jánosi, a physicist at Loránd ...
RIM rules out battery flaw with Blackberry Bold
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Feb 28, 2009 |
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Canada's Research In Motion said Friday it has ruled out faulty batteries as the likely cause of keyboards heating up during recharging of its BlackBerry Bold smart phones sold in Japan.
