Cow power could generate electricity for millions July 24, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 25 vote(s)
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Converting livestock manure into a domestic renewable fuel source could generate enough electricity to meet up to three per cent of North America's entire consumption needs and lead to a significant reduction in greenhouse ... | |
 Nanoparticle Research Points to Energy Savings July 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Adding just the right dash of nanoparticles to standard mixes of lubricants and refrigerants could yield the equivalent of an energy-saving chill pill for factories, hospitals, ships, and ... | |
Researchers demonstrate a flexible, 1-step assembly of nanoscale structures 15 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have created a one-step, repeatable method for the production of functional nanoscale patterns or motifs with adjustable features, size and shape using a single master "plate." | |
 Dutch researchers take flight with three-gram 'dragonfly' July 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 33 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- On Wednesday 23 July, TU Delft will be presenting the minute DelFly Micro air vehicle. This successor to the DelFly I and II weighs barely 3 grams, and with its flapping wings is very similar ... | |
Commercial bees spreading disease to wild pollinating bees July 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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Bees provide crucial pollination service to numerous crops and up to a third of the human diet comes from plants pollinated by insects. However, pollinating bees are suffering widespread declines in North America and scientists ... | |
 New Project To Develop GPS-Like System For Moon July 21, 2008 | User rating: 3.2 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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The same Ohio State University researcher who is helping rovers navigate on Mars is leading a new effort to help humans navigate on the moon. | |
New evidence of battle between humans and ancient virus July 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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For millennia, humans and viruses have been locked in an evolutionary back-and-forth -- one changes to outsmart the other, prompting the second to change and outsmart the first. With retroviruses, which work by inserting ... | |
AOL shutting 3 services to cut costs, focus on ads 13 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
(AP) -- AOL is shutting three data-storage services, including one of the Internet's earliest photo-sharing sites, as it seeks to cut costs and focus resources on its advertising opportunities. | |
Study: Typhoons bury tons of carbon in the oceans July 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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A single typhoon in Taiwan buries as much carbon in the ocean -- in the form of sediment -- as all the other rains in that country all year long combined. That's the finding of an Ohio State University study published in ... | |
Historian predicts the end of 'science superpowers' July 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 38 vote(s)
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Is the sun beginning to set on America's scientific dominance? Much like the scientific superpowers of France, Germany and Britain in centuries' past, the United States has a diminishing lead over other nations in financial ... | |
 Consumer spending: Why nine is the magic number July 23, 2008 | User rating: 3.2 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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Retailers' belief that customers like a price ending in a nine rather than a rounded-up zero -- 199.99 instead of 200.00, for instance -- has been borne out by scientific research on a restaurant menu. | |
Electronics giants to create wireless HD standard July 23, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Sony, Samsung and other consumer-electronics heavyweights are uniting to support a technology that could send high-definition video signals wirelessly from a single set-top box to screens around the home. | |
 Portuguese team makes first paper based transistor July 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 38 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Elvira Fortunato and colleagues from the Centro de Investigação de Materiais (Cenimat/I3N), at Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, made the first Field Effect ... | |
 Western governors offer greenhouse emissions plan July 24, 2008 | User rating: 2 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Seven Western states are joining four Canadian provinces to propose a plan to limit greenhouse gas emissions through use of a "cap and trade" system. | |
 Grow your mobile in a pot? Maybe someday, say Nokia researchers July 22, 2008 | User rating: 2.8 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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With a mobile phone you can make calls on the go, shoot photos and pinpoint your position on a map. And who knows, maybe one day you'll be able to grow your phone in a pot, if the futuristic ideas of technology ... | |
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