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Coming Soon: Improved Lithium Ion Batteries?

Chemistry /

created Nov 19, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (33) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Rechargeable lithium ion batteries provide portable devices that require a lot of energy, such as mobile telephones, digital cameras, and notebook computers, with power. However, their capacity, and thus ...





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Loud and lazy but didn't chew gum: Ancient koalas

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

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Skull fragments of prehistoric koalas from the Riversleigh rainforests of millions of year ago suggest they shared the modern koala's "lazy" lifestyle and ability to produce loud "bellowing" calls to attract mates and provide ...


Sociologist: Tiger Woods' Example Neither Reflects Nor Threatens the Image of Marriage

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- University at Buffalo sociologist Sampson Blair says Tiger Woods' alleged rampant infidelities don't affect the status of marriage and the family because his lifestyle and wealth are regarded by most Americans ...


Scientists get to the root of ancient case of sour grapes

Scientists get to the root of ancient case of sour grapes

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Cambridge have discovered that a lowly grape variety grown by peasants - but despised by noblemen - during the Middle Ages was the mother of many of today’s greatest grape varieties, ...


Light-Driven Nanorod Could Roll on Water

Light-Driven Nanorod Could Roll on Water

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a recent study, researchers have examined the possibility of rolling a nanorod on the surface of water. On the macroscale, perhaps the closest analogy might be the sport of logrolling, ...


Take-Two posts larger 4Q loss on higher charges

Technology / Business

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Charges and expenses outweighed higher sales and drove video game publisher Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. to post a wider fourth-quarter loss on Thursday, as billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn reported ...


baby walking

Why newborn babies can't walk

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (10) | comments 10

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first steps of an infant is a real milestone in the development of all mammals including humans, but little is known about why some animals can walk soon after birth, while others need ...


Heme channel found

Heme channel found

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In some ways a cell in your body or an organelle in that cell is like an ancient walled town. Life inside either depends critically on the intelligence of the gatekeepers.


Large-scale sequencing: The future of genomic sciences?

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists can gain insights into new ways to use microorganisms in medicine and manufacturing through a coordinated large-scale effort to sequence the genomes of not just individual microorganisms but entire ecosystems, ...


Researcher studies the universe through quantum electrodynamics

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Fundamental constants, such as the standards for length and mass, are a given in our society. However, research has shown that these constants might be changing slightly with the expansion of the universe.


Wild chimps have near human understanding of fire, says study

Wild chimps have near human understanding of fire, study says

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The use and control of fire are behavioral characteristics that distinguish humans from other animals. Now, a new study by Iowa State University anthropologist Jill Pruetz reports that savanna ...



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