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Structural Metallic-Glass Composites

Scientists create titanium-based structural metallic-glass composites

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Dec 19, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Scientists from the California Institute of Technology have created a range of structural metallic-glass composites, based in titanium, that are lighter and less expensive than any the group had previously ...





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New stem cell lines approved for tax-paid research

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Scientists can start using taxpayer dollars to do research with 13 batches of embryonic stem cells and the government says dozens more cell lines should be available soon, opening a new era for the potentially life-saving ...


Ski Runs Are Not Created Equal

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Building a new ski run by bulldozing a mountainside rather than only cutting its shrubs and trees is far more damaging ecologically, yet might offer only a week's earlier start to the downhill season, says ...


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Scientists Create World's Smallest Snowman (w/ Video)

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (20) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- David Cox, a scientist in the Quantum Detection group at the National Physical Laboratory in the UK, is an expert in nanofabrication techniques. Recently, using the tools of his trade and ...


'Avatar' video game to expand film's alien world (AP)

'Avatar' video game to expand film's alien world

Technology / Software

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(AP) -- James Cameron was thinking beyond the big screen when he created the alien world of Pandora. The "Titanic" director worked in tandem with video game developer Ubisoft Montreal on the game based on ...


Researchers create cell phones for sign language

Researchers create cell phones for sign language

Technology / Hi Tech

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cornell researchers and colleagues have created cell phones that allow deaf people to communicate in sign language, the same way hearing people use phones to talk.


Learning styles debunked

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (15) | comments 4

Are you a verbal learner or a visual learner? Chances are, you've pegged yourself or your children as either one or the other and rely on study techniques that suit your individual learning needs. And you're not alone— for ...


Microscopy reveals structure of calcite shells

Microscopy reveals structure of calcite shells

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Lara Estroff and colleagues have taken a deep, detailed look at the way lab-created calcite crystals, similar to those found in nature, grow in tandem with proteins and other large molecules.


Everlasting Quantum Wave: Physicists Predict New Form of Soliton in Ultracold Gases

Everlasting Quantum Wave: Physicists Predict New Form of Soliton in Ultracold Gases

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Solitary waves that run a long distance without losing their shape or dying out are a special class of waves called solitons. These everlasting waves are exotic enough, but theoreticians at ...


Artificial refuges created to save the reptiles of Doņana

Artificial refuges created to save the reptiles of Doņana

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The Aznalcóllar mining accident more than 11 years ago, which contaminated part of the Doņana National Park, also damaged reptile habitat there. Now a team of Spanish researchers, who have been studying ...


Gallium nitride transistor could replace silicon

Gallium nitride transistor could replace silicon

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (36) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Cornell researcher has created an extremely efficient transistor made from gallium nitride, which may soon replace silicon as king of semiconductors for power applications.



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