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Measuring the Immeasurable: New Study Links Heat Transfer, Bond Strength of Materials

Measuring the Immeasurable: New Study Links Heat Transfer, Bond Strength of Materials

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 13, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The speed at which heat moves between two materials touching each other is a potent indicator of how strongly they are bonded to each other, according to a new study by researchers at Rensselaer ...


New method for magnetic manipulation of cells

New method for magnetic manipulation of cells

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 06, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Magnetic technology could help address a major problem that bioengineers face as they try to create new tissue: getting human cells to not only form structures, but to stimulate the growth ...





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Model Suggests Origins of Mars Gullies

Model Suggests Origins of Mars Gullies

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 09, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 4

University of Arkansas researchers have used chemistry and geology to create a model that may explain the mystery of how modern-day gullies form on the surface of Mars.


Scrubbing sulfur

Scrubbing sulfur: New process removes sulfur components, CO2 from power plant emissions (w/ Video)

Chemistry / Other

created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

The Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has developed a reusable organic liquid that can pull harmful gases such as carbon dioxide or sulfur dioxide out of industrial emissions from ...


Good liquid, bad liquid

Good liquid, bad liquid (Video)

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 4

For airline passengers everywhere, good news. Scientists have successfully tested a liquid explosive detection system that may eventually keep dangerous substances off airplanes. This comes barely two years ...


Flat carbonated drinks not an effective alternative to oral rehydration solution

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created May 27, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 2

‘Flat’ carbonated drinks should not be used as an alternative for oral rehydration solution to prevent dehydration in children with acute vomiting and diarrhoea, according to advice published in the May issue of Archives of ...


Gold Nanorods

Golden Nanorods for Medical Applications

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Sep 08, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Gold nanoparticles are under consideration for a number of biomedical applications, such as tumor treatment. A German-American research team at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Hunter ...


Another step toward a liquid telescope on the moon

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 20, 2007 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (31) | comments 0

An international team including researcher Ermanno Borra, from Université Laval’s Center for Optics, Photonics, and Laser, has taken another step toward building a liquid telescope on the moon. The researchers have found ...


Molten Proteins: Surface-modified liquid protein with liquid-crystalline properties

Chemistry / Materials Science

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- Proteins are solids. When heated they do not melt; instead, they decompose or sublime directly to the gas phase at low pressures. They cannot be converted into a liquid form unless they are dissolved in a ...


Swirled to the Left or Right? Nanofibers Align in Stirred Liquid

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 19, 2007 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (13) | comments 0

Is the vortex in a stirred liquid swirling clockwise or counterclockwise? A zinc porphyrin dendrimer—a branched molecule with a central zinc atom—can answer this question. As Japanese researchers report in the journal Angewandte Ch ...


Cracking a controversial solid state mystery

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 06, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (9) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists can easily explain the structural order that makes steel and aluminium out of molten metal. And they have discovered the molecular changes that take place as water turns to ice. But, despite the ...


New Material Can Find a Needle in a Nuclear Waste Haystack

New Material Can Find a Needle in a Nuclear Waste Haystack

Chemistry /

created Mar 03, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (14) | comments 3

Nuclear power has advantages, but, if this method of making power is to be viable long term, discovering new solutions to radioactive waste disposal and other problems are critical. Otherwise nuclear power ...



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