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Water droplets shape graphene nanostructures

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created 5 hours ago | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A single-atom-thick sheet of carbon, like those seen in pencil marks -- offers great potential for new types of nanoscale devices, if a good way can be found to mold the material into desired shapes.


New Automated Technique with Online Verification Eases Network Analyzer Calibration

New Automated Technique with Online Verification Eases Network Analyzer Calibration

Technology / Engineering

created 18 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Verifying the accuracy of network analyzers—instruments that are used to measure key performance characteristics of electronic networks—was once an awkward process involving multiple steps and pieces of equipment.


Next-Generation Air Transportation System to Ultimately Succeed, Computer Scientist Predicts

Technology / Other

created 19 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Next Generation Air Transportation System, known as NextGen, is due for national implementation in stages between now and 2018. "I am predicting ultimate success and a system that will provide a much ...


Researchers find cells move in mysterious ways

Researchers find cells move in mysterious ways (w/ Video)

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created 20 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Our cells are more like us than we may think. They're sensitive to their environment, poking and prodding deliberately at their surroundings with hand-like feelers and chemical signals as they decide whether ...


Bacteria wouldn't opt for a swine flu shot

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Bacteria inhabited our planet for more than 4 billion years before humans showed up, and they'll probably outlive us by as many eons more. That suggests they may have something to teach us.


Watching Proteins Direct Crystal Growth One Step at a Time (w/ Video)

Watching Proteins Direct Crystal Growth One Step at a Time (w/ Video)

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry imaged the growth of protein-studded mineral surfaces with unprecedented resolution and provided a glimpse into how living systems engineer key ...


New results from a terra-ific decade in orbit

New results from a terra-ific decade in orbit

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

December 18, 2009, marks the tenth year since the launch of Terra, one of NASA's "flagship" Earth observing satellites. But the decade is more than just a mechanical milestone. With each additional day and ...


Antagonistic genes control rice growth

Antagonistic genes control rice growth

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists at the Carnegie Institution, with colleagues, have found that a plant steroid prompts two genes to battle each other—one suppresses the other to ensure that leaves grow normally in rice and the ...


Heart cells on lab chip display 'nanosense' that guides behavior

Heart cells on lab chip display 'nanosense' that guides behavior

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Johns Hopkins biomedical engineers, working with colleagues in Korea, have produced a laboratory chip with nanoscopic grooves and ridges capable of growing cardiac tissue that more closely resembles natural ...


Discovery of new gene called Brd2 that regulates obesity and diabetes

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The chance discovery of a genetic mutation that makes mice enormously fat but protects them from diabetes has given researchers at Boston University School of Medicine, USA, new insights into the cellular mechanisms that ...



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