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Hollow spheres made of metal

Hollow spheres made of metal

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 5

Producing metallic hollow spheres is complicated: It has not yet been possible to make the small sizes required for new high-tech applications. Now for the first time researchers have manufactured ground hollow ...


Life Sticks: Bioengineer Publishes Sticky Insights in journal Science

Life Sticks: Bioengineer Publishes Sticky Insights in journal Science

Biology / Biotechnology

created Apr 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sticky is good. A University of California, San Diego bioengineer is the first author on an article in the journal Science that provides insights on the “stickiness of life.” The big idea i ...





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MO-SCI to manufacture SRNL's unique porous walled hollow glass microspheres

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

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A licensing agreement between the U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) and specialty glass provider Mo-Sci Corporation will make SRNL's unique Porous Walled Hollow Glass Microspheres available ...


Researchers find cells move in mysterious ways

Researchers find cells move in mysterious ways (w/ Video)

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Our cells are more like us than we may think. They're sensitive to their environment, poking and prodding deliberately at their surroundings with hand-like feelers and chemical signals as they decide whether ...


Naturally skinny people have their own challenges

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Nancy Brueheim wishes she could break 100 pounds. Without working at it, Brueheim, who is 71 and stands 5-foot-2, fluctuates between 95 and 98 pounds.


Veiling in style: How does a stigmatized practice become fashionable?

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Why are an increasing number of Turkish women wearing veils in a secular country where the practice is banned in public buildings? A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research says one factor is fashion.


Early carnivorous dinosaurs crossed continents

Early carnivorous dinosaurs crossed continents

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Did the first dinosaurs wander across continents or stay put where they first evolved? The first dinosaurs evolved 230 million years ago when the continents were assembled into one landmass called Pangea. ...


Fossils shake dinosaur family tree

Fossils shake dinosaur family tree

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- Paleontologists have unearthed a previously unknown meat-eating dinosaur in New Mexico, settling a debate about early dinosaur evolution, revealing a period of explosive diversification and ...


Entropy alone creates complex crystals from simple shapes, study shows

Entropy alone creates complex crystals from simple shapes, study shows

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (21) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a study that elevates the role of entropy in creating order, research led by the University of Michigan shows that certain pyramid shapes can spontaneously organize into complex quasicrystals.


Nanomedicine: ending 'hit and miss' design

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the promises of nanomedicine is the design of tiny particles that can home in on diseased cells and get inside them. Nanoparticles can carry drugs into cells and tag cells for MRI and other diagnostic ...


Plate-eating good: University of Montreal professor designs edible tableware

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Finishing your plate may soon take on a literal meaning. Diane Bisson, a professor at the Université de Montréal School of Industrial Design, has fashioned edible plates that are practical, stylish and tasty. ...


Scientists Generate Black Hole Radiation in the Lab

Scientists Generate Black Hole Radiation in the Lab

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (32) | comments 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- Due to their violent nature and long distance from Earth, black holes and their surroundings are very difficult to study. Currently, the main method to observe a black hole is to use an X-ray ...



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