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Through the Wire: A New Nanocatalyst Synthesis Technique

Through the Wire: A New Nanocatalyst Synthesis Technique

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- Materials containing bimetallic nanoparticles are attractive in vast technological fields because of their unique catalytic, electronic, and magnetic properties. One of the most promising ...





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Is random lasing possible with a cold atom cloud?

Physics / General Physics

created May 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Random lasing, Robin Kaiser tells PhysOrg.com, is like standard lasing, with a little bit of a twist: “You don’t know the direction the photons will go, as you do with a more standard laser. This is becaus ...


A penny for your prions: Researchers study link between copper, mad cow disease

A penny for your prions: Researchers study link between copper, mad cow disease

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jun 25, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- North Carolina State University researchers have discovered a link between copper and the normal functioning of prion proteins, which are associated with transmissible spongiform encephalopathy ...


Study sheds light on evolution of human complexity

Biology / Evolution

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A painstaking analysis of thousands of genes and the proteins they encode shows that human beings are biologically complex, at least in part, because of the way humans evolved to cope with redundancies arising ...


Do fruit flies have free will?

Biology /

created May 16, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (18) | comments 0

Free will and true spontaneity exist … in fruit flies. This is what scientists report in a groundbreaking study in the May 16, 2007 issue of the open-access journal PLoS ONE.


Toshiba develops new MRAM device which opens the way to giga-bits capacity

Toshiba develops new MRAM device which opens the way to giga-bits capacity

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 06, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (44) | comments 2

Toshiba Corporation today announced important breakthroughs in key technologies for magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM), a promising, next-generation semiconductor memory device.


Dynamic frustration may lead to better understanding of glass in nature

Argonne scientists discover new class of glassy material

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jul 28, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (34) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory are dealing with an entirely new type of frustration, but it's not stressing them out.


Researchers improve ability to write and store information on electronic devices

Researchers improve ability to write and store information on electronic devices

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 13, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (20) | comments 0

New research led by the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory physicist Matthias Bode provides a more thorough understanding of new mechanisms, which makes it possible to switch a magnetic ...


Homebody queen ants help preserve family ties in large populations

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Ant and bee colonies have long fascinated biologists because of their hierarchical social structure and the apparently altruistic behaviour of female workers in rearing the queen's young rather than reproducing themselves. ...


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S.Korea develop the smallest transistors

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created Mar 14, 2006 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (13) | comments 0

South Korean scientists and the national institute of technology have developed a 3-nanometer-wide transistor, the smallest of its kind in the world.


Researcher shows proteins have controlled motions

Biology /

created Aug 27, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Iowa State University researcher Robert Jernigan believes that his research shows proteins have controlled motions. Most biochemists traditionally believe proteins have many random, uncontrolled movements.



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