![]() Dinosaurrific! New Dinosaur Supertree(PhysOrg.com) -- It has long been debated whether dinosaurs were part of the ‘Terrestrial Revolution’ that occurred some 100 million years ago during the Cretaceous when birds, mammals, flowering plants, insects ... |
![]() Physicist Claims First Real Demonstration of Cold FusionTo many people, cold fusion sounds too good to be true. The idea is that, by creating nuclear fusion at room temperature, researchers can generate a nearly unlimited source of power that uses water as fuel ... |
![]() A baseball cap that reads your mindIt looks like an ordinary baseball cap. But when you put it on, the cap detects and analyzes the electroencephalogram (EEG) signals from your brain. It can even tell you if you’re getting too sleepy when driving ... |
Finding the real potential of no-till farming for sequestering carbonThe potential of no-tillage (NT) soils for increasing the soil organic carbon (SOC) pool must be critically and objectively assessed. Most of the previous studies about SOC accrual in NT soils have primarily focused on the ... |
![]() Researchers stumped by drug addiction paradoxFrom chocolate and caffeine to nicotine and cocaine, many of our most addictive foods and drugs come from plant toxins. Considering that plants originally developed these toxins to deter herbivorous predators, ... |
![]() Scientists Construct Model of the World Wide WebAlthough the Internet contains well over 100 million Web sites, two electrical engineers think they know what the traffic patterns of the entire Web look like. |
![]() Quantum Dots May Lead to Rainbow Solar CellFor the first time, researchers have created solar cells made of different-sized quantum dots, each tuned to a specific wavelength of light. By arranging these quantum dots in an ordered pattern, the scientists ... |
140-year-old math problem solved by researcherA problem which has defeated mathematicians for almost 140 years has been solved by a researcher at Imperial College London. |
![]() The Best Way to Board a PlaneMost airlines board passengers the same way, first filling the seats in the back of the plane, and then moving to the front. After a recent experience boarding a plane in this manner, Fermilab physicist Jason ... |
![]() Toshiba develops the world's fastest speed embedded DRAM technologyToshiba Corporation today announced that it has realized the world's fastest circuit technology for embedded DRAM for System LSI, achieving a speed of 833MHz at 32Mb density. The technology will be applied ... |
AMD Xilleon Panel Processors AnnouncedAMD today unveiled a new family of AMD Xilleon panel processors designed to provide unrivaled visual quality in liquid crystal display (LCD) digital TVs. AMD’s new panel processors deliver advanced motion compensation and ... |
![]() Powders show their strength[PIC=:left]Growing a single crystal of a protein can be very difficult. Thanks to recent developments, a powder sample may be enough to solve a structure. |
![]() 'Snowdrift' game tops 'Prisoner's Dilemma' in explaining cooperationWhen it comes to explaining the evolution of human cooperation, researchers have traditionally looked to the iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma (IPD) game as the paradigm. However, the observed degree of cooperation ... |
![]() Taxol bristle ball: a wrench in the works for cancerRice University chemists have discovered a way to load dozens of molecules of the anti-cancer drug paclitaxel onto tiny gold spheres. The result is a tiny ball, many times smaller than a living cell that literally ... |