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7 new luminescent mushroom species discovered

Seven new luminescent mushroom species discovered

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Seven new glow-in-the-dark mushroom species have been discovered, increasing the number of known luminescent fungi species from 64 to 71. Reported today in the journal Mycologia, the new finds include two ne ...


Nanotechnology gets a new light touch

Nanotechnology gets a new light touch

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Building the super-fast computers of the future has just become much easier thanks to an advance by Australian researchers that lets them grab hold of tiny electronics components and probe ...


Vu1 ESL

Company Claims ESLs to be the Future of Light Bulbs (w/ Video)

Technology / Hi Tech

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (23) | comments 22

(PhysOrg.com) -- While compact fluorescent lights (CFLs) are currently the primary alternative to incandescent light bulbs, a company from Seattle predicts that its own novel light bulbs will eventually replace ...


Researchers devise a fast and sensitive way to detect ricin

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Apr 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have developed a simple, accurate, and highly sensitive test to detect and quantify ricin, an extremely potent toxin with potential use as a bioterrorism ...


Nanoscopic probes can track down and attack cancer cells

Nanoscopic probes can track down and attack cancer cells

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

A researcher has developed probes that can help pinpoint the location of tumors and might one day be able to directly attack cancer cells.


Chemists find secret to increasing luminescence efficiency of carbon nanotubes

Chemists find secret to increasing luminescence efficiency of carbon nanotubes (Animation)

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Chemists at the University of Connecticut have found a way to greatly increase the luminescence efficiency of single-walled carbon nanotubes, a discovery that could have significant applications in medical ...


New study finds first inhabitants of Caribbean brought drug heirlooms with them

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 20, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (14) | comments 0

A new study led by North Carolina State University's Dr. Scott Fitzpatrick is the first to show physical evidence that the people who colonized the Caribbean from South America brought with them heirloom drug paraphernalia ...


Blue bananas

Blue bananas: Ripening bananas glow an intense blue under black light

Chemistry /

created Oct 17, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (37) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ripe bananas are of course yellow. However, under black light, the yellow bananas are bright blue, as discovered by scientists at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) and Columbia University ...