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Researchers develop new technique for fabricating nanowire circuits

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 26, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Scientists at Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), collaborating collaborating with researchers from the German universities of Jena, Gottingen, and Bremen, have developed a new technique for fabricating ...





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Moving video to 'captcha' robot hackers

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 29, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

We see the popular "captcha" security mechanism often ― wavy letters websites ask us to type into a box. It's used by web pages and newsletter sign-up forms to prevent computer robots from hacking into servers and databases. ...


Scientists show that plants have measure of the shortest day

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- It is not only people who feel the effects of short winter days - new research by the University of Edinburgh and the University of Warwick has shed light on how plants calculate their own winter solstice. ...


Scientists map speed of climate change

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (31) | comments 41

New study finds that the average ecosystem will need to shift about a quarter mile per year to keep pace with global climate change.


Shallow Origins

Shallow Origins

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (13) | comments 3

In finding answers to the mystery of the origin of life, scientists may not have to dig too deep. New research is shedding light on shallower waters as a possible location for where life on Earth began.


Volcanic Quakes Help Forecast Eruptions

Volcanic Quakes Help Forecast Eruptions

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Monitoring the earthquakes caused from magma movements inside an active volcano could help to improve the accuracy of forecasting an eruption.


New compounds may control deadly fungal infections

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

An estimated 25,000 Americans develop severe fungal infections each year, leading to 10,000 deaths despite the use of anti-fungal drugs. The associated cost to the U.S. health care system has been estimated at $1 billion ...


Argonne advanced battery research driving to displace gasoline

Argonne advanced battery research driving to displace gasoline (w/ Video)

Technology / Energy

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (7) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- In excess of seven million barrels of gasoline are consumed by vehicles in the United States every day. As scientists race to find environmentally sound solutions to fuel the world’s ever-growing ...


Physicists propose quantum entanglement for motion of microscopic objects

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (20) | comments 14

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have proposed a new paradigm that should allow scientists to observe quantum behavior in small mechanical systems.


Web wizardry: CS 50 Fair spotlights students’ programming for the Web

Web wizardry: CS 50 Fair spotlights students’ programming for the Web

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The observation became a question and finally an application.


Light used to map effect of neurons on one another

Light used to map effect of neurons on one another

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Harvard University have used light and genetic trickery to trace out neurons' ability to excite or inhibit one another, literally shedding new light on the question of how neurons ...



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