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Lightweight composites to get trimmer and smarter

Lightweight composites to get trimmer and smarter

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created 4 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- CSIRO researchers have set themselves the goal of producing a new generation of super-strong, lightweight polymer composite materials for use in aircraft, road vehicles, trains and ferries.


New platinum compound shows promise in tumor cells

New platinum compound shows promise in tumor cells

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT chemists have developed a new platinum compound that is as powerful as the commonly used anticancer drug cisplatin but better able to destroy tumor cells.


New silicon-germanium nanowires could lead to smaller, more powerful electronic devices

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created 22 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Microchip manufacturers have long faced challenges miniaturizing transistors, the key active components in nearly every modern electronic device, which are used to amplify or switch electronic signals.


Physicist Jack Harris Is Honored by DARPA as One of Nation's 'Rising Stars'

Physics / General Physics

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- Jack Harris, an associate professor of physics, has received one of this year's Young Faculty Awards (YFA) from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). He is one of 33 "rising stars" across ...


Smoking cessation results mixed among Ohio's Appalachian women

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

In the Appalachian region of the country — where smoking rates are high, tobacco is often a cash crop and income and education levels are low — a smoking cessation effort led by non-medical professionals was successful in ...


Acculturation influences smoking cessation by Latino men

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Latino men who are more adapted to U.S. culture are more likely to quit smoking than their less-acculturated counterparts, according to research by scientists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center published ...


Gallium nitride transistor could replace silicon

Gallium nitride transistor could replace silicon

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (28) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Cornell researcher has created an extremely efficient transistor made from gallium nitride, which may soon replace silicon as king of semiconductors for power applications.


Entropy alone creates complex crystals from simple shapes, study shows

Entropy alone creates complex crystals from simple shapes, study shows

Chemistry / Materials Science

created 22 hours ago | popularity 4.9 / 5 (20) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a study that elevates the role of entropy in creating order, research led by the University of Michigan shows that certain pyramid shapes can spontaneously organize into complex quasicrystals.


Precision breeding creates super potato

Precision breeding creates super potato

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The skin is light brown, the meat luscious and yellow: from the outside alone, this new potato looks like any other. But on the inside, it is different. Its cells produce pure amylopectin, a starch used in ...


Non-invasive technique blocks a conditioned fear in humans

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created 23 hours ago | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Scientists have for the first time selectively blocked a conditioned fear memory in humans with a behavioral manipulation. Participants remained free of the fear memory for at least a year. The research builds on emerging ...



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