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Unexpectedly Long-Range Effects in Advanced Magnetic Devices

Unexpectedly Long-Range Effects in Advanced Magnetic Devices

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (10) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A tiny grid pattern has led materials scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Institute of Solid State Physics in Russia to an unexpected finding—the ...





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Christmas Carol Talk

Other Sciences / Other

created 11 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Even without the lyrics, the tunes of some Christmas carols -- such as "Jingle Bells" or "Deck the Halls" -- sound uplifting. But the melodies of other songs like "We Three Kings" have a different, somber sound.


Tiny nano-electromagnets turn a cloak of invisibility into a possibility

Physics / General Physics

created 11 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

A team of researchers at the FOM institute AMOLF (The Netherlands) has succeeded for the first time in powering an energy transfer between nano-electromagnets with the magnetic field of light.


Glitter-sized solar photovoltaics produce competitive results

Glitter-sized solar photovoltaics produce competitive results

Technology / Energy

created 14 hours ago | popularity 4.5 / 5 (26) | comments 0

Sandia National Laboratories scientists have developed tiny glitter-sized photovoltaic cells that could revolutionize the way solar energy is collected and used.


Role of addiction cannot be ignored in obesity epidemic

Medicine & Health / Health

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The causes of obesity are complex and individual, but it is clear that chronic overeating plays a fundamental role. But when this behaviour becomes compulsive and out of control, it is often classified as "food addiction" ...


Is nicotinamide overload a trigger for type 2 diabetes?

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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Facing the increasing prevalence of type 2 diabetes worldwide in the past few decades, one may ask what is wrong with humans. Geneticists tell us that the human genome has not changed markedly in such a short time. Therefore, ...


Modern behavior of early humans found half-million years earlier than previously thought

Modern behavior of early humans found half-million years earlier than previously thought

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created 16 hours ago | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Evidence of sophisticated, human behavior has been discovered by Hebrew University of Jerusalem researchers as early as 750,000 years ago - some half a million years earlier than has previously been estimated ...


Genetic study clarifies African and African-American ancestry

Genetic study clarifies African and African-American ancestry

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 0

People who identify as African-American may be as little as 1 percent West African or as much as 99 percent, just one finding of a large-scale, genome-wide study of African and African-American ancestry released ...


Making New Enzymes to Engineer Plants for Biofuel Production

Making New Enzymes to Engineer Plants for Biofuel Production

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Brookhaven scientists have created a new enzyme with the potential to interfere with a key cell-wall component in plants, possibly leading to plants that are easier to "digest" and convert ...


IKK may act as both inhibitor and promoter of Huntington's disease

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The kinase IKK phosphorylates the protein mutated in Huntington's disease to promote its removal and neuron survival, but IKK may be a double-edged sword that increases neurotoxicity in later stages of the disease. The study, ...


Mystery of golden ratio explained

Researcher explains mystery of golden ratio

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (20) | comments 7

The Egyptians supposedly used it to guide the construction the Pyramids. The architecture of ancient Athens is thought to have been based on it. Fictional Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon tried to unravel ...



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