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Metamaterials could reduce friction in nanomachines

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created 18 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nanoscale machines expected to have wide application in industry, energy, medicine and other fields may someday operate far more efficiently thanks to important theoretical discoveries concerning the manipulation ...


Japan's 'space beer' sparkles among drinkers

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (5) | comments 0

A Japanese brewer has come up with a beer that's truly out of this world -- one made with barley grown from a line of seeds that once orbited the Earth aboard the International Space Station.


NRL's MISSE7 launched aboard STS-129

NRL's MISSE7 launched aboard STS-129

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created 18 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The Materials on the International Space Station Experiment (MISSE) 7, designed and built by the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), launched aboard STS-129 on November, 16, for transport to the International ...


Getting a 'Head Start' on obesity prevention

Medicine & Health / Health

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Almost 1 million preschool children from low-income families are enrolled in Head Start, a national program for young children that readies them for school. While the program provides them with educational and social skill ...


Fit teenage boys are smarter, but muscle strength isn't the secret

Medicine & Health / Health

created 20 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

In the first study to demonstrate a clear positive association between adolescent fitness and adult cognitive performance, Nancy Pedersen of the University of Southern California and colleagues in Sweden find that better ...


Super cool atom thermometer

Super cool atom thermometer

Physics / General Physics

created 16 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

As physicists strive to cool atoms down to ever more frigid temperatures, they face the daunting task of developing new, reliable ways of measuring these extreme lows. Now a team of physicists has devised ...


At Stanford, nanotubes + ink + paper = equal instant battery (w/ Video)

At Stanford, nanotubes + ink + paper = equal instant battery (w/ Video)

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created 16 hours ago | popularity 4.9 / 5 (22) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stanford scientists are harnessing nanotechnology to quickly produce ultra-lightweight, bendable batteries and supercapacitors in the form of everyday paper.


Researchers demonstrate nanoscale X-ray imaging of bacterial cells

Researchers demonstrate nanoscale X-ray imaging of bacterial cells

Physics / General Physics

created 17 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

An ultra-high-resolution imaging technique using X-ray diffraction is a step closer to fulfilling its promise as a window on nanometer-scale structures in biological samples. In the Proceedings of the National Ac ...


Self-destructing bacteria improve renewable biofuel production

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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An Arizona State University research team has developed a process that removes a key obstacle to producing lower-cost, renewable biofuels. The team has programmed a photosynthetic microbe to self-destruct, making the recovery ...


South Asian oral history archive goes online

South Asian oral history archive goes online

Other Sciences / Other

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(PhysOrg.com) -- A unique collection of hundreds of interviews with people who witnessed Indian independence and the final days of the British Raj is being put online.



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