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Observing the Quantum Hall Effect in 'Real' Space
Jan 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When water transforms into steam, or magnetized iron changes to demagnetized iron, Katsushi Hashimoto explains to PhysOrg.com, a phase transition is taking place: “Classical phase transitions…often share ...
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Portions of Arctic coastline eroding, no end in sight, says new study
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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The northern coastline of Alaska midway between Point Barrow and Prudhoe Bay is eroding by up to one-third the length of a football field annually because of a "triple whammy" of declining sea ice, warming ...
New structure could produce efficient semiconductor laser sources
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have achieved a nanoscale laser structure they anticipate will produce semiconductor lasers in the next two years that are more than twice as efficient ...
Value of volunteering more than economic
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
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With rising unemployment and fewer job vacancies, the current financial crisis has seen renewed policy emphasis in both Europe and the UK on volunteering as a route to employment, according to a new report from the Economic ...
Yellowstone's plumbing exposed
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The most detailed seismic images yet published of the plumbing that feeds the Yellowstone supervolcano shows a plume of hot and molten rock rising at an angle from the northwest at a depth ...
New genes for lung disease discovered
Dec 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have discovered five genetic variants that are associated with the health of the human lung. The research by an international consortium of 96 scientists from 63 centres in Europe and Australia ...
Novel detection method unmasks circulating breast cancer cells
Dec 12, 2009 |
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Circulating metastatic breast cancer cells can lose their epithelial receptors, a process that enables them to travel through the bloodstream undetected, according to research from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer ...
Soldiers get mass swine flu shots before holidays
Dec 11, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Thousands of Army recruits in training must line up at least once more before heading home for the holidays, this time for mass inoculations by the hundreds against swine flu.
Computing with a wave of the hand (w/ Video)
Dec 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The iPhone’s familiar touch screen display uses capacitive sensing, where the proximity of a finger disrupts the electrical connection between sensors in the screen. A competing approach, ...
More mental health care called for in wake of Ft. Hood shootings
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 11, 2009 |
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The recent shootings at the Ft. Hood, Texas army base, allegedly by an army psychiatrist, have placed much-needed focus on mental health care in the army. In an article published in the December issue of the journal CNS Sp ...
Texting, tweeting ought to be viewed as GR8 teaching tools, scholar says
Dec 10, 2009 |
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The impact of text messaging on the decline of formal writing among teens has been debated in pedagogical circles ever since cell-phone ownership became an adolescent rite of passage in the mid-2000s. But ...
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