News tagged with potential
Workplace literacy schemes are too short to improve skills
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 25, 2009 |
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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
Nov 04, 2009 |
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(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
Oct 22, 2009 |
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(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
Sep 27, 2009 |
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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 ...
Article examines rare quantum physics effect
Sep 23, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Detached gecko tails dance to their own tune
Sep 09, 2009 |
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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
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 11, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Novel electric signals in plants
Mar 09, 2009 |
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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
Jan 28, 2009 |
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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
Jan 21, 2009 |
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(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
Jan 16, 2009 |
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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
Dec 18, 2008 |
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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
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Dec 03, 2008 |
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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
Oct 01, 2008 |
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(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
Sep 24, 2008 |
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(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 ...
