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Actinide research published in Reviews of Modern Physics

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 11, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Livermore researcher who teamed with a United Kingdom collaborator has published an article in Reviews of Modern Physics that refines decades of actinide science and may just become the preeminent research ...





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Closing in on dark matter?

Physicists detect two candidate dark matter interactions, but say the data are not conclusive

Physics / General Physics

created 19 hours ago | popularity 4.1 / 5 (14) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have spent decades searching for the elusive material known as dark matter, which is believed to make up 25 percent of the universe. On Thursday, Dec. 17, a team of physicists including ...


Mobile tech 'can replace cheques'

Mobile tech 'can replace cheques'

Technology / Hi Tech

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- With cheques due to be phased out in the UK by 2018 new security technology developed at Oxford University could offer a replacement, allowing people a secure way to pay in almost any situation.


Want to live well? Harvard experts offer pragmatic pointers on getting healthy and staying there

Want to live well? Harvard experts offer pragmatic pointers on getting healthy and staying there

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 1

You are what you eat. You're also how you feel, how you exercise, how you sleep, how you handle money, how you relate to people, and what you value.


UAB researchers link calorie intake to cell lifespan, cancer development

Researchers link calorie intake to cell lifespan, cancer development (w/ Video)

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (10) | comments 7

Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) have discovered that restricting consumption of glucose, the most common dietary sugar, can extend the life of healthy human-lung cells and speed ...


Researcher studies the universe through quantum electrodynamics

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Fundamental constants, such as the standards for length and mass, are a given in our society. However, research has shown that these constants might be changing slightly with the expansion of the universe.


A Search for Stability for Platinum Catalysts

A Search for Stability for Platinum Catalysts

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new carbon support that greatly increases the durability of proton-exchange membrane fuel cells has been developed by scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Princeton University. ...


Probing Question: Is the death penalty on the decline in America?

Probing Question: Is the death penalty on the decline in America?

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In November, the Commonwealth of Virginia executed John A. Muhammad, the infamous “D.C. sniper” responsible for 10 murders seven years earlier. On the eve of his execution, a Washington Post poll found 66 ...


Hacker seeks reduced sentence, citing Asperger's

Technology / Internet

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(AP) -- A computer hacker who was a force behind one of the largest cases of credit card theft in U.S. history says he has a developmental disorder and is asking for a reduced sentence.


Study shows loss of 15-42 percent of mammals in North America

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (7) | comments 5

If the planet is headed for another mass extinction like the previous five, each of which wiped out more than 75 percent of all species on the planet, then North American mammals are one-fifth to one-half the way there, according ...


Facebook mines Census data to track its diversifying users

Technology / Internet

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

In its earliest days, Facebook was primarily a white and Asian phenomenon. No more. In the first-ever study of the race and ethnicity of its U.S. users, Facebook said Wednesday that blacks and Latinos have joined the social ...



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