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Workplace literacy schemes are too short to improve skills

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The five billion pound Skills for Life programme is based on the assumption that an improvement in literacy and numeracy will increase people's earning potential, as well as their productivity and employability. However, ...


Mimicking nature, scientists can now extend redox potentials

Mimicking nature, scientists can now extend redox potentials

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New insight into how nature handles some fundamental processes is guiding researchers in the design of tailor-made proteins for applications such as artificial photosynthetic centers, long-range ...


New material could efficiently power tiny generators

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- To power a very small device like a pacemaker or a transistor, you need an even smaller generator. The components that operate the generator are smaller yet, and the efficiency of those foundational components ...


Lab-on-a-Chip Performs 1,000 Chemical Reactions At Once

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Sep 27, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Flasks, beakers, and hot plates may soon be a thing of the past in medicinal chemistry labs. Instead of handling a few experiments on a benchtop, scientists may simply pop a microchip into a computer and instantly run thousands ...


quantum physics

Article examines rare quantum physics effect

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (25) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- There's nothing University of Nebraska-Lincoln physicist Herman Batelaan likes more than a challenge. And there are few areas of science more challenging than working at the sub-atomic, or ...


Gecko Visiting Flower for Nector

Detached gecko tails dance to their own tune

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 6

Geckos and other lizards have long been known for their incredible ability to shed their tails as a decoy for predators, but little is known about the movements and what controls the tail once it separates ...


GOCE gravity satellite moves to launch pad

GOCE gravity satellite moves to launch pad

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- With liftoff just five days away, ESA's GOCE spacecraft - encased in the protective half-shells of the launcher fairing - has been transported from the cleanroom and installed in the launch ...


Schematic Section of a Plant Leaf

Novel electric signals in plants

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Using ion-selective micro-electrodes electrical signals in plants moving from leaf to leaf could be measured. The speed of the signals spreading as voltage changes over cell membranes ranged from 5 to 10 cm ...


Geoengineering could complement mitigation to cool the climate

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 28, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (15) | comments 7

The first comprehensive assessment of the climate cooling potential of different geoengineering schemes has been carried out by researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA).


Hotspots in developing countries will fuel demand for global energy

Other Sciences / Other

created Jan 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Developing countries use proportionally less energy than industrialized nations, but this could soon change.


Nanotech safety high on Congress' priority list

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 16, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The House Science and Technology Committee today introduced legislation that highlights the growing attention on Capitol Hill to the need to strengthen federal efforts to learn more about the potential environmental, health ...


Men, women give to charity differently, says new research

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 18, 2008 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

To whom would you rather give money: a needy person in your neighborhood or a needy person in a foreign country? According to new research by Texas A&M University marketing professor Karen Winterich and colleagues, if you're ...


New 'control knobs' for stem cells identified

Biology /

created Dec 03, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Natural changes in voltage that occur across the membrane of adult human stem cells are a powerful controlling factor in the process by which these stem cells differentiate, according to research published by Tufts University ...


When a light goes on during thought processes

When a light goes on during thought processes

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 01, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (20) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Thought processes made visible: An international team of scientists headed by Mazahir Hasan of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg has succeeded in optically detecting ...


Study probes impact of CSI-style programming on jurors

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 24, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new psychological study from the University of Leicester aims to investigate how accurate people's perceptions about forensic science are, where these beliefs come from, and how this forensic awareness ...