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Simulations help explain fast water transport in nanotubes

Simulations help explain fast water transport in nanotubes

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 16, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- By discovering the physical mechanism behind the rapid transport of water in carbon nanotubes, scientists at the University of Illinois have moved a step closer to ultra-efficient, next-generation ...





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Proteins important in Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease travel in the slow lane

Proteins important in Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease travel in the slow lane

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Apr 17, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Using a novel video-imaging system, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have been able to observe proteins important in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease moving along axons, ...


Home, James - public transport gets personal

Technology / Hi Tech

created Aug 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A European research project has developed technologies that pave the way for highly efficient unmanned public transport systems in our cities.


Molecular freight: Synthetic nanoscale transport system modeled on nature

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Just like our roads, there is a lot of traffic within the cells in our bodies, because cell components, messenger molecules, and enzymes must also be brought to the right places in the cell. One of these ...


Protein helps immune cells to divide and conquer

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have identified a key protein that is required for immune cells called B lymphocytes to divide and replicate themselves. The rapid generation of large ...


Plasma Power: Turning Fusion Into a Renewable Energy Source

Going With the Flow: Using Star Power to Better Understand Fusion

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Sep 11, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- UC San Diego researchers are using “star” power to help ignite the field of fusion, which is being looked at as a future reliable green energy source. Under a new $5.8 million five-year grant ...


'Chemical equator' discovery will aid pollution mapping

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 23, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (26) | comments 0

Scientists at the University of York have discovered a 'Chemical Equator' that divides the polluted air of the Northern Hemisphere from the largely uncontaminated atmosphere of the Southern Hemisphere.


Stem cell derived neurons for research relevant to Alzheimer's and Niemann-Pick type C diseases

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Stem cell derived neurons may allow scientists to determine whether breakdowns in the transport of proteins, lipids and other materials within cells trigger the neuronal death and neurodegeneration that characterize Alzheimer's ...


It took Beijing 48 years for the number of vehicles to increase from 2,300 in 1949 to the first 1 mln in 1997

Beijing vehicles exceed four million: state media

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The number of registered vehicles in Beijing topped four million this week, state media reported, meaning a quarter of the 16 million permanent residents in China's capital have a car.


Inner workings of photosynthesis revealed by powerful new laser technique

Inner workings of photosynthesis revealed by powerful new laser technique

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 05, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (15) | comments 3

Instant pictures showing how the sun's energy moves inside plants have been taken for the first time, according to research out tomorrow (Friday 6 February) in Physical Review Letters.


Studying rivers for clues to global carbon cycle

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 08, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1

In the science world, in the media, and recently, in our daily lives, the debate continues over how carbon in the atmosphere is affecting global climate change. Studying just how carbon cycles throughout the Earth is an enormous ...



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