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Simulating real-world surfaces

These days, cars are developed on computers, and to assist with this, designers want processes which generate realistic surfaces such as seat covers. Researchers have now developed high-resolution scanners ...

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Does 'sun-protective' clothing work?

Dear EarthTalk: Is there really such a thing as "sun-protective clothing"? If so, does it mean I can dispense with oily sunscreens once and for all? (John Sugarman, San Diego, Calif.)

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1




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Amazing skin gives sharks a push

Shark skin has long been known to improve the fish's swimming performance by reducing drag, but now George Lauder and Johannes Oeffner from Harvard University show that in addition, the skin generates thrust, ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Searching for a solid that flows like a liquid

(PhysOrg.com) -- A series of neutron scattering experiments at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and other research centers is exploring the key question about a long-sought quantum state of matter called supersolidity: ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Bright lights of purity: Researchers discover why pure quantum dots and nanorods shine brighter

To the lengthy list of serendipitous discoveries – gravity, penicillin, the New World – add this: Scientists with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have discovered why a promising ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Eureka! Kitchen gadget inspires scientist to make more effective plastic electronics

One day in 2010, Rutgers physicist Vitaly Podzorov watched a store employee showcase a kitchen gadget that vacuum-seals food in plastic. The demo stuck with him. The simple concept – an airtight seal ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Hurricane Katrina survivors struggle with mental health years later, study says

(Medical Xpress) -- Survivors of Hurricane Katrina have struggled with poor mental health for years after the storm, according to a new study of low-income mothers in the New Orleans area.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Lead blood levels may increase smokers' risk for kidney cancer

Higher than normal levels of lead in the blood may signal a risk two times higher than average of developing renal cell carcinoma in smokers, according to medical researchers.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

High-power, 532 nm-wavelength compact green laser module with high efficiency, high-speed modulation capability

QD Laser, Inc., the Institute for Nano Quantum Information Electronics, the University of Tokyo, and Fujitsu Laboratories Limited today announced the successful development of a high-power 532 nm-wavelength ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Childhood hypersensitivity linked to OCD

In childhood, rituals like regular schedules for meal, bath, and bed times are a healthy part of behavioral development. But combined with oral and tactile sensitivities, such as discomfort at the dentist or irritation caused ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 27, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Quantum tunneling results in record transistor performance

(PhysOrg.com) -- Controlling power consumption in mobile devices and large scale data centers is a pressing concern for the computer chip industry. Researchers from Penn State and epitaxial wafer maker IQE ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

UV lithography: Taking extreme measures

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometime soon, microchip fabricators will take the next major step in the relentless reduction of feature size, from the current minimum of 22 nm down to 10 nm and perhaps even smaller. Getting ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 2


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