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Deep Gulf drilling thrives 18 mos. after BP spill

(AP) -- Two hundred miles off the coast of Texas, ribbons of pipe are reaching for oil and natural gas deeper below the ocean's surface than ever before.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 30, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Music, media firms pin hopes on new Facebook ties

Music and media companies are pinning fresh hopes for reviving their businesses on a small ribbon that Facebook has begun putting on user profiles called the "ticker."

Technology / Internet

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Wrapped up in Ribbon

An amazing portable combination heating and cooling device, designed by Monash University Industrial Design student Enzo Kocak, has claimed second place in this year’s international Electrolux Design ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Sep 12, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Long and narrow, free of defects, and soluble: graphene nanoribbons by bottom-up synthesis

(PhysOrg.com) -- Electronic components based on graphene could render our current silicon-based electronics obsolete. Graphene, a more recently discovered form of carbon, consists of two-dimensional sheets ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 08, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 22 | with audio podcast

Researchers register new species using DNA-based description

The previously unknown species of ribbon worm discovered in Kosterhavet National Park in 2007 has now been scientifically named using a new method. Pseudomicrura afzelii, a form of nemertean or ribbon worm, ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Light twists rigid structures in unexpected nanotech finding

(PhysOrg.com) -- In findings that took the experimenters three years to believe, University of Michigan engineers and their collaborators have demonstrated that light itself can twist ribbons of nanoparticles.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 17, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (21) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Blue Ribbon Task Force: Preserving our digital knowledge base must be a public priority

Addressing one of the most urgent societal challenges of the Information Age - ensuring that valued digital information will be accessible not just today, but in the future - requires solutions that are at least as much economic ...

Technology / Other

created Mar 02, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Unzipping Carbon Nanotubes Can Make Graphene Ribbons

(PhysOrg.com) -- By "unzipping" carbon nanotubes, researchers have shown how to make flat graphene ribbons. Graphene, which is a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon that looks like chicken wire, has unique electrical ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 20, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 3 weblog

Rice researchers unzip the future

Scientists at Rice University have found a simple way to create basic elements for aircraft, flat-screen TVs, electronics and other products that incorporate sheets of tough, electrically conductive material.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 4