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Researchers Control the Spin of Semiconductor Quantum Dot Shell States

Researchers Control the Spin of Semiconductor Quantum Dot Shell States

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have recently demonstrated the ability to control the spin population of the individual quantum shell states of self-assembled indium arsenide (InAs) quantum ...





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Scientists confirm crab's memory of pain

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 2

New research published by a Queen’s University Belfast academic has shown that crabs not only suffer pain but that they retain a memory of it.


Solving a subatomic shell game: Physicists decode hidden properties of the rare Earths

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 5

Physicists at Michigan Technological University have filled in some longtime blank spaces on the periodic table, calculating electron affinities of the lanthanides, a series of 15 elements known as rare earths.


New Nanowire-Based Memory Could Beef Up Information Storage

New Nanowire-Based Memory Could Beef Up Information Storage

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 02, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (55) | comments 5

Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have created a type of nanowire-based information storage device that is capable of storing three bit values rather than the usual two—that is, "0," "1," and ...


'Taco shell' protein: Orientation of middle man in photosynthetic bacteria described

'Taco shell' protein: Orientation of middle man in photosynthetic bacteria described

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 13, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have figured out the orientation of a protein in the antenna complex to its neighboring membrane in a photosynthetic bacterium, a key find ...


Orientation of antenna protein in photosynthetic bacteria described

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have figured out the orientation of a protein in the antenna complex to its neighboring membrane in a photosynthetic bacterium, a key find in the process of energy transfer ...


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Right/left handedness of snails changed in the lab

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Like most animals, snails have either left- or right-handed asymmetry (chirality), both internally and externally, and the handedness is hereditary. A new study has for the first time found ...


NSCL S800 spectrograph at Michigan State University's National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory

Physicists Take a Trip to Nuclear 'Island of Inversion'

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 09, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (30) | comments 0

Far from the everyday world occupied by such common elements such as gold and lead lies a little-understood realm inhabited by radioactive, or unstable, elements. Recently, a nuclear physicist from Florida ...


Engineered Eggshells To Help Make Hydrogen Fuel

Technology / Energy

created Sep 26, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (16) | comments 0

Engineers at Ohio State University have found a way to turn discarded chicken eggshells into an alternative energy resource.


Small fossils provide key clues for interpreting environmental changes

Small fossils provide key clues for interpreting environmental changes

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The Micropalaeontology team at the Department of Stratigraphy and Palaeontology at the University of the Basque Country (Spain) is working on the study of microfossils under the direction of Mr Julio Rodríguez ...


Scientist uses mass spectrometer to weigh virus particle, von Willebrand factor

Chemistry /

created Aug 23, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

With unprecedented sensitivity, Carnegie Mellon University’s Mark Bier has characterized large viral particles and bulky von Willebrand factors using a novel mass spectrometer. These exciting results may lead to new biological ...



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