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A light touch: Iron complexes as efficient catalysts for the light-driven extraction of hydrogen from water

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Hydrogen is a promising alternative energy carrier that can be efficiently converted into electrical energy in fuel cells. One hurdle to the introduction of sustainable hydrogen technology is the fact that ...


Down Syndrome

Down Syndrome becoming more prevalent in the U.S.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study, aimed at estimating the prevalence of Down Syndrome in newborns, children and teenagers in 10 areas of the U.S., has found an increase in prevalence of more than 30 percent over ...


Typhoon Nida's cloud tops dropping as it zigzags in wind shear

Typhoon Nida's cloud tops dropping as it zigzags in wind shear

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Nida is battling to keep its typhoon strength in the Western Pacific Ocean as wind shear continues to tear at the storm and weaken it. NASA's CloudSat satellite noticed that Nida's cloud tops are not as high ...


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Bacterial gut symbionts are tightly linked with the evolution of herbivory in ants

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Broadly speaking, ants have two different feeding strategies. A large proportion of all species are "carnivorous," meaning that they are generalist predators feeding on other small animals or scavenging on ...


Women researchers less likely to receive major career funding grants, U-M study shows

Women researchers less likely to receive major career funding grants, study shows

Medicine & Health / Other

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

Women were less likely than men to receive major funding for scientific research, according to a study from the University of Michigan Health System. The study also found that only a quarter of all researchers, ...


Superior Super Earths

Superior Super Earths

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (44) | comments 14

Super Earths are named for their size, but these planets - which range from about 2 to 10 Earth masses - could be superior to the Earth when it comes to sustaining life. They could also provide an answer to ...


Study reveals people’s thoughts on living longer

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- If people were given a pill to make them live longer what would they do with that extra time? According to a new study by University of Queensland researchers, they would spend it with their family.


Western diets turn on fat genes

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Those extra helpings of gravy and dessert at the holiday table are even less of a help to your waistline than previously thought. According to a new research report recently appearing online in The FASEB Journal, a diet t ...


Super Typhoon Nida to pass east of Iwo To and Chichi Jima

Super Typhoon Nida to pass east of Iwo To and Chichi Jima

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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

Nida is still holding on to Super Typhoon status in the Western Pacific Ocean, and over the weekend, is forecast to pass east of both Iwo To and Chichi Jima islands. Although the center of Nida will remain ...


Researchers Design Triple Quantum Dot for Quantum Information Applications

Researchers Design Triple Quantum Dot for Quantum Information Applications

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (16) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- While quantum dots have existed since the 1980s, only in the past decade have physicists successfully created lateral few-electron single quantum dots. These quantum dots enable physicists ...



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