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Chemist Travels World to Study Mysterious Properties of Neutrinos

Aug 19, 2008 | 4.4 / 5 (23) | 14

In the quest to better understand one of nature's most "ghostly" elementary particles — the neutrino — scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory are spreading their expertise from ...

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Samsung pays in dispute over Kodak camera patents

Technology / Business

Dec 23, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(AP) -- Eastman Kodak Co. said Wednesday that Samsung Electronics Co. has agreed to pay the camera maker an undisclosed sum as the two sides try to settle a dispute over patents used in Samsung's camera phones.

Tracing the traces: Nanogram concentrations of a toxic compound detected in chlorinated tap water

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

Dec 23, 2009 | 5 / 5 (5) | 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- Drinking water can transmit a number of diseases, including typhoid, dysentery, cholera, and diarrhea, which can then spread explosively throughout an entire service area. To avoid this problem, drinking ...

Shallow Origins

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Dec 22, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (13) | 3

In finding answers to the mystery of the origin of life, scientists may not have to dig too deep. New research is shedding light on shallower waters as a possible location for where life on Earth began.

Glowing channels: Microanalysis system for rapid mercury detection

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

Dec 22, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Water contaminated with mercury is very dangerous for both people and the environment, as mercury is one of the most toxic heavy metals. Though laboratory analyses do deliver precise quantitative measurements, ...

How to Find Signs of Life on Mars

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Dec 18, 2009 | 3.7 / 5 (3) | 2

By studying the signatures of fossil life on Earth, geobiologists can get a clue of what to look for when hunting for extraterrestrial life on Mars.

Icy moons of Saturn and Jupiter may have conditions needed for life

Space & Earth / Astronomy

Dec 15, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (16) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists once thought that life could originate only within a solar system's "habitable zone," where a planet would be neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water to exist on its surface. ...

Sony optimistic on 3-D TVs, in-house display

Technology / Hi Tech

Nov 26, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 0

(AP) -- A third to a half of the Sony Corp. TV sets sold annually will be packed with 3-D features by the year ending March 2013, a senior executive said Thursday.

Fast, easy, and highly sensitive arsenic detection with gold nanoparticles

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Nov 25, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Mention of arsenic poisoning usually brings to mind underhanded murder. However, the danger of arsenic poisoning from contaminated drinking water is far greater. Low concentrations of arsenic are found in ...