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New silicon-germanium nanowires could lead to smaller, more powerful electronic devices

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created 6 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Microchip manufacturers have long faced challenges miniaturizing transistors, the key active components in nearly every modern electronic device, which are used to amplify or switch electronic signals.


Review: Two new 3-D laptops still feel shallow (AP)

Review: Two new 3-D laptops still feel shallow

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 3

(AP) -- In its search for another technology to excite us, the consumer electronics industry is reaching deep - into the third dimension. The big push for 3-D TV won't happen until next year, but already ...


Poisonous Poisson

Poisonous Poisson

Biology / Evolution

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 0

In contrast to the exhaustive research into venom produced by snakes and spiders, venomous fish have been neglected and remain something of a mystery. Now, a study of 158 catfish species, published in the ...


Climate change turns up heat on mushrooms

Climate change turns up heat on mushrooms

Biology / Ecology

created 3 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have discovered that spring-fruiting fungi, including the morel and St George’s mushroom are fruiting nearly three weeks earlier than they did 50 years ago.


Snowman

Scientists Create World's Smallest Snowman (w/ Video)

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (18) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- David Cox, a scientist in the Quantum Detection group at the National Physical Laboratory in the UK, is an expert in nanofabrication techniques. Recently, using the tools of his trade and ...


People affected by autism believe increase is 'real,' not diagnostic

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created 8 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

There has been a major increase in the number of children diagnosed with autistic spectrum disorders over the last two decades - the question is why? Researchers have found a sharp difference between the beliefs of ordinary ...


Stellar family portrait takes imaging technique to new extremes

Stellar family portrait takes imaging technique to new extremes

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Noted for harbouring Eta Carinae -- one of the wildest and most massive stars in our galaxy -- the impressive Carina Nebula also houses a handful of massive clusters of young stars. The youngest of these stellar ...


Snowflake chemistry could give clues about ozone depletion

Snowflake chemistry could give clues about ozone depletion

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

There is more to the snowflake than its ability to delight schoolchildren and snarl traffic.


Stanford's Dostoevsky biographer concludes acclaimed series

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Everything was silent in St. Petersburg's Semenovsky Square. On the cold December day in 1849, the snow fell softly on the soldiers, on the crowd and on the ragged prisoners who unexpectedly found themselves blinking at the ...


Penn State scientist at center of a storm

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created 2 hours ago | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A few words culled from some hacked e-mails in Britain have generated chaos in the world of climate science -- throwing dark clouds over Pennsylvania State University and stirring up negative publicity for the field that ...



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