 Researchers stumped by drug addiction paradox April 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 107 vote(s)
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From 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, ... | |
 Researchers Prove Existence of New Basic Element for Electronic Circuits -- 'Memristor' April 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 203 vote(s)
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HP today announced that researchers from HP Labs have proven the existence of what had previously been only theorized as the fourth fundamental circuit element in electrical engineering. | |
First Solar: Quest for the $1 Watt July 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 61 vote(s)
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Photovoltaic cells, once so costly they could be used only to power million-dollar satellites, are today turning up even on humble parking meters. Now a brash Tempe, Ariz., company called First Solar plans to take the technology ... | |
Ice Age lesson predicts a faster rise in sea level August 31, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 51 vote(s)
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If the lessons being learned by scientists about the demise of the last great North American ice sheet are correct, estimates of global sea level rise from a melting Greenland ice sheet may be seriously underestimated. | |
 Global sea-rise levels by 2100 my be lower than some predict, says new study September 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 51 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Despite projections by some scientists of global seas rising by 20 feet or more by the end of this century as a result of warming, a new University of Colorado at Boulder study concludes that ... | |
Modest CO2 cutbacks may be too little, too late for coral reefs September 22, 2008 | User rating: 2.7 / 5 after 25 vote(s)
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How much carbon dioxide is too much? According to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) greenhouse gases in the atmosphere need to be stabilized at levels low enough to "prevent dangerous anthropogenic ... | |
 Rain Power: Harvesting Energy from the Sky January 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 126 vote(s)
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Researchers who study energy harvesting see energy all around us – we just need to find a way to capture that energy. One of the latest energy harvesting techniques is converting the mechanical energy from ... | |
Looking for neutralinos at the Large Hadron Collider July 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 63 vote(s)
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“We are looking at the heavens, and using the very biggest things to help up predict what will happen with the very smallest things,” David Toback tells PhysOrg.com. Toback is a professor at Texas A&M University in ... | |
Overweight elderly Americans contribute to financial burdens of the US health care system July 25, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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Being overweight or obese is not only a personal issue that affects one's health but is also a public health issue that impacts other people in society. A new study in the journal Health Services Research reveals that ... | |
 CERN announces start-up date for Large Hadron Collider August 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 72 vote(s)
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CERN has today announced that the first attempt to circulate a beam in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be made on 10 September. This news comes as the cool down phase of commissioning CERN's new particle ... | |
 Physicists Rule Out the Production of Dangerous Black Holes at the LHC September 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 92 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- On August 8, the world's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland, began the process of slowly throttling to full power. When its proton beams are circling ... | |
 Scientists detect cosmic 'dark flow' across billions of light years September 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 72 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Using data from NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), scientists have identified an unexpected motion in distant galaxy clusters. The cause, they suggest, is the gravitational ... | |
Simple device which uses electrical field could boost gas efficiency September 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 86 vote(s)
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With the high cost of gasoline and diesel fuel impacting costs for automobiles, trucks, buses and the overall economy, a Temple University physics professor has developed a simple device which could dramatically improve fuel ... | |
Study finds value in 'junk' DNA October 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 37 vote(s)
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For about 15 years, scientists have known that certain "junk" DNA -- repetitive DNA segments previously thought to have no function -- could evolve into exons, which are the building blocks for protein-coding genes in higher ... | |
New evidence for homeopathy November 03, 2008 | User rating: 2.5 / 5 after 44 vote(s)
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Two new studies conclude that a review which claimed that homeopathy is just a placebo, published in The Lancet, was seriously flawed. | |
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