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Preventing tumor cells from refueling: A new anti-cancer approach?

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 20, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

New data, generated in mice, by Pierre Sonveaux and colleagues, at Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, have identified a potential new target for anticancer therapeutics.





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Hot electron solar cell

Hot Electrons Could Double Solar Cell Power Efficiency

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created 5 hours ago | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Scientists have experimentally verified a theory suggesting that hot electrons could double the output of solar cells. The researchers, from Boston College, have built solar cells that successfully use hot ...


Tiny whispering gallery

Tiny whispering gallery: Sensor can detect a single nanoparticle and take its measurement

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created 6 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Nanotechnology has already made it to the shelves of your local pharmacy and grocery: nanoparticles are found in anti-odor socks, makeup, makeup remover, sunscreen, anti-graffiti paint, home pregnancy tests, ...


Caltech scientists film photons with electrons

Caltech scientists film photons with electrons

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (20) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Techniques recently invented by researchers at the California Institute of Technology -- which allow the real-time, real-space visualization of fleeting changes in the structure of nanoscale ...


Watching Proteins Direct Crystal Growth One Step at a Time (w/ Video)

Watching Proteins Direct Crystal Growth One Step at a Time (w/ Video)

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry imaged the growth of protein-studded mineral surfaces with unprecedented resolution and provided a glimpse into how living systems engineer key ...


Miracle light: Can lasers solve the energy crisis?

Technology / Energy

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 3

Next year will mark the 50th birthday of the laser, one of the most productive and widely used mega-inventions of the last century. Scientists hope that 2010 also will see the launch of laser technology's greatest challenge: ...


First Direct Imaging of a Young Binary System

First Direct Imaging of a Young Binary System

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (17) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of astronomers from The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, and other universities have captured the first direct image of a young ...


Home heating efficiencies offer 'hat trick' of savings: study

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Improving the energy efficiency of Maryland homes heated by natural gas would generate a "hat trick" of economic and environmental benefits over the next 10 years, including more than 80,000 new jobs, savings of hundreds ...


Scientists discover mechanism behind superinsulation

Scientists discover mechanism behind superinsulation

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have discovered the microscopic mechanism behind the phenomenon of superinsulation, the ability of certain materials ...


Researcher studying ways to handle huge quantities of biomass

Researcher studying ways to handle huge quantities of biomass

Technology / Energy

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- As scientists scramble to develop ways to generate enormous amounts of energy from cleaner-burning, renewable fuels to replace coal and oil, promising agricultural crops such as switchgrass ...


Light-generating transistors to power labs on chips

Light-generating transistors to power labs on chips

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- What started out as 'blue-sky' thinking by a group of European researchers could ultimately lead to the commercial mass production of a new generation of optoelectronic components for devices ...



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