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Scientists confirms liquid-liquid phase transition in silicon

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Using rigorous computer calculations, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the Carnegie Institution of Washington have established evidence that supercooled silicon experiences a liquid-liquid phase transition, ...





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Popular diet product recalled in US amid bacteria fears

Medicine & Health / Health

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Millions of cans of a popular ready-to-drink diet product are being recalled in the United States after tests showed the liquid meals could be tainted with bacteria, the manufacturer said Friday.


AP source: Apple in talks to buy Lala.com (AP)

Apple in talks to buy Lala.com

Technology / Business

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(AP) -- Apple Inc. is in advanced talks to buy online music retailer Lala.com, a Silicon Valley startup that has threatened "the end of the MP3" with its fast song-streaming application.


FTC expands Intel anti-competition probe, sources say

Technology / Business

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The Federal Trade Commission has broadened its investigation of Santa Clara, Calif., chipmaker Intel beyond the company's competition with Advanced Micro Devices to include at least one other Silicon Valley company, Nvidia, ...


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Scientists Create World's Smallest Snowman (w/ Video)

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (15) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- David Cox, a scientist in the Quantum Detection group at the National Physical Laboratory in the UK, is an expert in nanofabrication techniques. Recently, using the tools of his trade and ...


Fine-tuned

Fine-tuned: A wholly new approach to tuning a laser's frequency

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- For more than 30 years, scientists have been trying to harness the power of terahertz radiation. Tucked between microwaves and infrared rays on the electromagnetic spectrum, terahertz rays ...


Weight loss reduces sleep problems in obese men

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Weight loss reduces obstructive sleep apnoea in obese men, with the greatest effect seen in patients with severe disease, according to new research published in the British Medical Journal today.


Stopping MRSA before it becomes dangerous is possible, researchers find

Stopping MRSA before it becomes dangerous is possible, researchers find

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Most scientists believe that staph infections are caused by many bacterial cells that signal each other to emit toxins. The signaling process is called quorum sensing because many bacteria must be present ...


Google, other Silicon Valley firms nurture app developers

Technology / Internet

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

They crowd the lobby of Google's Building 43 one evening a month, waiting to climb the wide stairway under a mock-up of the world's first private spacecraft, SpaceShipOne, prepared to delve deep into the Internet giant's ...


China is now the world's top producer of the solar power cells

China solar panel makers see boost from Copenhagen

Technology / Energy

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

In Trina Solar's brilliant white factory in eastern China, masked workers in lab coats turn silicon wafers into solar power cells capable of harnessing the sun's clean and limitless energy.


Nanowire Formation

Nanowires key to future transistors, electronics

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new generation of ultrasmall transistors and more powerful computer chips using tiny structures called semiconducting nanowires are closer to reality after a key discovery by researchers ...



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