News tagged with blue
Blue light specials: New materials boost efficiency of blue OLEDs by 25 percent
Mar 22, 2009 |
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Lighting consumes one-fifth of the electricity generated in the United States. Solid-state lighting offers tremendous potential to improve the situation - once major research challenges are overcome.
Animal families with the most diversity also have widest range of size
Mar 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Somewhere out there in the ocean, SpongeBob SquarePants has a teeny-tiny cousin and a humongous uncle.
Housing shortage alters reproductive behaviour in blue tits
Mar 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Increased competition for rare breeding sites causes female blue tits to invest more time in their current brood, to spend more time feeding their offspring and also to produce more male offspring ...
Study challenges popular image of dingo
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Feb 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A recent study of dingoes in the Blue Mountains challenges the postcard image of dingoes as only being white pawed and sandy coloured.
Blue light destroys antibiotic-resistant staph infection
Jan 29, 2009 |
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Two common strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, commonly known as MRSA, were virtually eradicated in the laboratory by exposing them to a wavelength of blue light, in a process called photo-irradiation that i ...
Even stars get fat -- And 'stellar cannibalism' is the reason
Jan 14, 2009 |
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Researchers have discovered evidence that blue stragglers in globular clusters, whose existence has long puzzled astronomers, are the result of 'stellar cannibalism' in binary stars. In other words, binary ...
Scientists spend a white Christmas in Antarctica
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 22, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The idea of a white Christmas may seem magical for many of us, but spare a thought for a team of scientists forgoing the festive season to take part in a novel campaign being carried out in ...
Hubble scores a perfect ten
Oct 30, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Hubble Space Telescope is back in business after a one-month breakdown with a snapshot of the fascinating galaxy pair Arp 147. Scientists made two repair attempts, and last week's effort ...
Blue bananas: Ripening bananas glow an intense blue under black light
Oct 17, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Ripe bananas are of course yellow. However, under black light, the yellow bananas are bright blue, as discovered by scientists at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) and Columbia University ...
People lacking vital antioxidants and exposed to sunlight more likely to develop AMD
Oct 14, 2008 |
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People who lack essential antioxidants, and who have high levels of sunlight exposure, have a higher risk of developing advanced macular degeneration (AMD), according to a study published today in the journal Archives of ...
Turning freshwater farm ponds into crab farms
Oct 09, 2008 |
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Work by researchers at North Carolina State University is leading to a new kind of crab harvest – blue crabs grown and harvested from freshwater ponds, instead of from the sea.
Amphibian Froth: Unusual linkage pattern in a blue protein found in the foam nests of tropical frogs
Oct 02, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An unusual blue protein called ranasmurfin and found in the foam nests of a Malaysian tree frog has aroused the interest of a team of British, Brazilian, and Malaysian researchers led by Alan Cooper at the ...
Researchers Turning Freshwater Farm Ponds into Crab Farms
Sep 30, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Work by researchers at North Carolina State University is leading to a new kind of crab harvest – blue crabs grown and harvested from freshwater ponds, instead of from the sea.
Red all over: how the color red affects a referee's judgment
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 08, 2008 |
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Many sports teams select their uniforms based on the mascot, city or country they are representing, not on a referee's preference or bias. But a new study has found that choosing the color red for a uniform in competitive ...
A mammalian clock protein responds directly to light
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Jul 01, 2008 |
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We all know that light effects the growth and development of plants, but what effect does light have on humans and animals? A new paper by Nathalie Hoang et al., published in PLoS Biology this week, explores this question by exa ...
