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Hackers leak e-mails, stoke climate debate

Technology / Internet

created Nov 21, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (73) | comments 43

(AP) -- Computer hackers have broken into a server at a well-respected climate change research center in Britain and posted hundreds of private e-mails and documents online - stoking debate over whether some scientists have ...


Superior Super Earths

Superior Super Earths

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (55) | comments 15

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 ...


Controversial new climate change results

Controversial new climate change results

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (49) | comments 131

(PhysOrg.com) -- New data show that the balance between the airborne and the absorbed fraction of CO2 has stayed approximately constant since 1850, despite emissions of CO2 having risen from about 2 billion ...


Is global warming unstoppable?

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (55) | comments 81

In a provocative new study, a University of Utah scientist argues that rising carbon dioxide emissions - the major cause of global warming - cannot be stabilized unless the world's economy collapses or society builds the ...


Sandia CR5

Machine Converts CO2 into Gasoline, Diesel, and Jet Fuel

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (42) | comments 24

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have built a machine that uses the sun's energy to convert carbon dioxide waste from power plants into transportation fuels such as gasoline, diesel, ...


Scientists Reproduce a Building Block of Life in Laboratory

Scientists Reproduce a Building Block of Life in Laboratory

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (28) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA scientists studying the origin of life have reproduced uracil, a key component of our hereditary material, in the laboratory.


carbon fiber

Ultra-Long Carbon Nanotubes Could Serve as Future Transmission Lines

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (28) | comments 15

(PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to carbon nanotubes, the majority of research so far has focused on small-scale applications. But now, a team of researchers from Rice University has created carbon nanotubes ...


At Stanford, nanotubes + ink + paper = equal instant battery (w/ Video)

At Stanford, nanotubes + ink + paper = equal instant battery (w/ Video)

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (27) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stanford scientists are harnessing nanotechnology to quickly produce ultra-lightweight, bendable batteries and supercapacitors in the form of everyday paper.


Innovation puts next-generation solar cells on the horizon

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (30) | comments 12

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.


First Neutrino Events Observed at T2K Near Detector

First Neutrino Events Observed at T2K Near Detector

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (25) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists from the Japanese-led multi-national T2K neutrino collaboration announced today that over the weekend they detected the first events generated by their newly built neutrino beam ...


Study: Earth more sensitive to carbon dioxide than previously thought

Study: Earth more sensitive to carbon dioxide than previously thought

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 06, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (36) | comments 68

In the long term, the Earth's temperature may be 30-50% more sensitive to atmospheric carbon dioxide than has previously been estimated, reports a new study published in Nature Geoscience this week.


New study confirms exotic electric properties of graphene

New study confirms exotic electric properties of graphene

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (23) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- First, it was the soccer-ball-shaped molecules dubbed buckyballs. Then it was the cylindrically shaped nanotubes. Now, the hottest new material in physics and nanotechnology is graphene: ...


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Virgin Galactic readies maiden suborbital flight

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (22) | comments 10

British billionaire Sir Richard Branson will unveil a craft on Monday that could soon carry tourists on an out-of-this-world trip into space -- for a mere 200,000 dollars. (Update: Virgin Galactic unveils commercial spaceship) ...


Researchers invent new method for graphene growth

Researchers invent new method for graphene growth

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (22) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Cornell research team has invented a simple way to make graphene electrical devices by growing the graphene directly onto a silicon wafer.


Fujitsu Develops Technology for Low-Temperature Full-Service Direct Formation of Graphene Transistors on Large-Scale Substrates

Fujitsu Develops Technology for Low-Temperature Full-Service Direct Formation of Graphene Transistors on Large-Scale Sub

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (21) | comments 4

Fujitsu Laboratories today announced, as a world first, the development of a novel technology for forming graphene transistors directly on the entire surface of large-scale insulating substrates at low temperatures ...