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Vermicompost from pig manure grows healthy hibiscus

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Vermicomposting, the practice of using earthworms to turn waste into nutrient-rich fertilizer, can be an economical, organic waste management practice. During vermicomposting, earthworms and microorganisms stabilize organic ...


Suzaku spies treasure trove of intergalactic metal

Suzaku spies treasure trove of intergalactic metal

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Every cook knows the ingredients for making bread: flour, water, yeast, and time. But what chemical elements are in the recipe of our universe?


Researchers put a new spin on atomic musical chairs

Researchers put a new spin on atomic musical chairs

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Naval Research Laboratory have developed a new way to introduce magnetic impurities in a semiconductor crystal by prodding it with ...


Spin polarization achieved in room temperature silicon

Spin polarization achieved in room temperature silicon

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (19) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A group in The Netherlands has achieved a first: injection of spin-polarized electrons in silicon at room temperature. This has previously been observed only at extremely low temperatures, ...


Accidental discovery produces durable new blue pigment for multiple applications

Accidental discovery produces durable new blue pigment for multiple applications

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (33) | comments 6

An accidental discovery in a laboratory at Oregon State University has apparently solved a quest that over thousands of years has absorbed the energies of ancient Egyptians, the Han dynasty in China, Mayan ...


Exploring the limits of antiferromagnetism in nanostructured materials

In Brief: Exploring the limits of antiferromagnetism in nanostructured materials

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in the Electronic & Magnetic Materials & Devices Group (Argonne National Laboratory) and at Politecnico di Milano in Italy explored the limits of antiferromagnetism in a nanostructured ...


Breaking Down the Barrier for Smaller, Faster Electronic Devices

Breaking Down the Barrier for Smaller, Faster Electronic Devices

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of international researchers is the first to uncover the chemical composition and structure of a microelectronics element that is vital to producing ever smaller - and, thus, cheaper ...


Why leave it to nature? Chemistry professor wants to understand, simplify, photosynthesis

Why leave it to nature? Chemistry professor wants to understand, simplify, photosynthesis

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Amid calls for transformative change in the world’s energy supply, Harvard chemist Ted Betley is taking a back-to-basics approach and examining the mother of all energy supplies -- photosynthesis ...


A new chemical method for distinguishing between farmed and wild salmon

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Wild salmon and farmed salmon can now be distinguished from each other by a technique that examines the chemistry of their scales.


Smart memory foam made smarter

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Researchers from Northwestern University and Boise State University have figured out how to produce a less expensive shape-shifting "memory" foam, which could lead to more widespread applications of the material, such as ...


New X-ray technique illuminates reactivity of environmental contaminants

New X-ray technique illuminates reactivity of environmental contaminants

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Thanks to a new analytical method employed by researchers at the University of Delaware, scientists can now pinpoint, at the millisecond level, what happens as harmful environmental contaminants such as arsenic ...


Let there be light: Teaching magnets to do more than just stick around

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 20, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- That palm tree magnet commemorating your last vacation is programmed for a simple function - to stick to your refrigerator. Similarly, semiconductors are programmed to convey bits of information small and ...


2nd lead poisoning case hits China, 1,300 sick (AP)

2nd lead poisoning case hits China, 1,300 sick

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 20, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- China detained two factory officials after 1,300 children were poisoned by pollution from a manganese processing plant, state media said Thursday, days after emissions from a lead smelter in another ...


Newly found DNA catalysts cleave DNA with water molecule

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 16, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Better tools for manipulating DNA in the laboratory may soon be possible with newly discovered deoxyribozymes (catalytic DNA) capable of cleaving single-stranded DNA, researchers at the University of Illinois say.


A deep-sea drilling vessel off the coast of Japan's Wakayama prefecture

Japan to use deep-sea probes to search for minerals

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Japan plans to deploy unmanned probes to scour the sea-floor around the resource-poor island nation for mineral deposits, a government-backed scientific organisation said Thursday.