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Research highlights problems of predicting birthweights in obese mothers

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jul 09, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers have found what they believe to be the most accurate way of predicting the birth-weight of babies born to the growing number of obese mothers, according to a study in the UK-based journal Ultrasound in Obstetrics an ...





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Closing the gaps in the human genome

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sequence gaps in human chromosome 15 have been closed by the application of 454 technology. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Genome Biology have described a simple and scalable method for finish ...


Highlight: Solar - Bridging the gap

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Titanium dioxide, the same inexpensive white pigment that protects us from sunburns, can be converted into a material that absorbs sunlight and could greatly increase the efficiency of solar energy cells.


New statistical technique shows more informative picture of survival

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 08, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers have developed a new method for presenting clinical trial survival data that includes data from all trial participants unlike the standard method, according to a commentary published online January 8 in the Journal of ...


Bridging the gap in nanoantennas

Bridging the gap in nanoantennas

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 20, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 1

In a recent publication in Nature Photonics, a joint team of researchers at CIC nanoGUNE, Donostia International Physics Center DIPC, Centro de Física de Materiales of CSIC/UPV-EHU in San Sebastian (Spain ...


LED closes the yellow gap: Full conversion of blue into amber light by new nitride phosphor

LED closes the yellow gap: Full conversion of blue into amber light by new nitride phosphor

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jul 23, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Monochromatic light-emitting diodes cover a large part of the visible spectrum with high effi-ciency. For blue light, nitride diodes achieve external quantum efficiencies in excess of 65%, ...


Capturing those in-between moments: Researchers solves timing problem in molecular modeling

Capturing those in-between moments: Researchers solves timing problem in molecular modeling

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

A theoretical physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology has developed a method for calculating the motions and forces of thousands of atoms simultaneously over a wider range of time scales ...


Variable nanocomposites

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 06, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 1

What appear under an atomic force microscope to be tiny rings with little bits missing are actually nanoscopic rings made of double-stranded DNA with a little gap in the form of a short single-stranded fragment. As Michael ...


New JILA apparatus measures fast nanoscale motions

New JILA apparatus measures fast nanoscale motions

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 16, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 0

A new nanoscale apparatus developed at JILA — a tiny gold beam whose 40 million vibrations per second are measured by hopping electrons — offers the potential for a 500-fold increase in the speed of scanning ...


Light-speed nanotech: Controlling the nature of graphene

Light-speed nanotech: Controlling the nature of graphene

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have discovered a new method for controlling the nature of graphene, bringing academia and industry potentially one step closer to realizing the mass production ...


Physicists reveal superconducting surprise

Physicists reveal superconducting surprise

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 12, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (62) | comments 5

MIT physicists have taken a step toward understanding the puzzling nature of high-temperature superconductors, materials that conduct electricity with no resistance at temperatures well above absolute zero.



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