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Bronze age necklace unearthed

Bronze age necklace unearthed

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 01, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A 4,000-year-old amber necklace has been discovered at a dig organised by a team of archeologists in Manchester.





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Room's Ambience Fingerprinted By Phone

Technology / Hi Tech

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Your smart phone may soon be able to know not only that you're at the mall, but whether you're in the jewelry store or the shoe store.


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Michigan Tech Team Models Molecular Transistor

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 13, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Electronic gadgetry gets tinier and more powerful all the time, but at some point, the transistors and myriad other component parts will get so little they won't work. That's because when ...


No jobs, no insurance: hard times for young adults (AP)

No jobs, no insurance: hard times for young adults

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 4

(AP) -- Emily Weinstein graduated from college into an economic meltdown, and as a self-employed jewelry maker she'll be lucky to bring in $16,000 this year.


Bent tectonics: How Hawaii was bumped off

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 03, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 2

More than 80 undersea volcanoes and a multitude of islands are dotted along the Hawaii-Emperor seamount chain like pearls on a necklace. A sharp bend in the middle is the only blemish. The long-standing explanation for this ...


Nanowires may lead to better fuel cells

Nanowires may lead to better fuel cells

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The creation of long platinum nanowires at the University of Rochester could soon lead to the development of commercially viable fuel cells.


Molecular Junctions

Researchers discover a potential on-off switch for nanoelectronics

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 03, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 2

As electronic circuits shrink from finely etched lines in silicon wafers to nearly elusive proportions, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Columbia University ...


Digital Optical Detectors in IceTop

Researchers focus on building telescope at South Pole

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 09, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

It's 40 degrees F below zero (with the wind chill) at the South Pole today. Yet a research team from the University of Delaware is taking it all in stride.


Pedal pusher: Engineering professor, students plan citywide bike paths

Pedal pusher: Engineering professor, students plan citywide bike paths

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 05, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An earthy mobile of cyclists hangs above Peter Furth’s office computer. A gift from his children, the dangling artifact originates from an African country where bikes are a primary mode of ...


Scientists shed light on how DNA is unwound so that its code can be read

Biology /

created Nov 24, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute have figured out how a macromolecular machine is able to unwind the long and twisted tangles of DNA within a cell's nucleus so that genetic information can be "read" and used ...


New method to overcome multiple drug resistant diseases developed by Stanford researchers

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 18, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Many drugs once considered Charles Atlases of the pharmaceutical realm have been reduced to the therapeutic equivalent of 97-pound weaklings as the diseases they once dispatched with ease have developed resistance to them.



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