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Bats recognize the individual voices of other bats

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Bats can use the characteristics of other bats' voices to recognize each other, according to a study by researchers from the University of Tuebingen, Germany and the University of Applied Sciences in Konstanz, Germany. The ...





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Physicists observe kink in the dispersion of f-electrons

Physicists observe kink in the dispersion of f-electrons

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Los Alamos researchers in collaboration with colleagues in US and Europe report on the observation of a kink in the dispersion of f-electrons in USb2.


Energy efficiency standards for appliances should include upstream costs

Technology / Energy

created May 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The U.S. Department of Energy should consider gradually changing its system of setting appliance energy-efficiency standards to a full-fuel-cycle measurement, which takes into account both the energy used to operate an appliance, ...


Identifying the 'Signatures' of Protons in Water

Physics /

created Jul 13, 2005 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Free protons from acids associate with 1, 2 or 3 molecules of water and the structures can be identified by unique infrared laser spectrum signatures, according to a report in Science by Yale professor of chemistry Mark A ...


Scientists identify origin of hiss in upper atmosphere

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 05, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (30) | comments 1

Scientists have solved a 40-year-old puzzle by identifying the origin of the intense radio waves in the Earth's upper atmosphere that control the dynamics of the Van Allen radiation belts — belts consisting of high-energy ...


White glow: Dye-doped DNA nanofibers emit white light

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Efficient energy transport plays an important role in the development of optoelectonic materials. The true masters of energy transfer via a hierarchical arrangement of different molecules are the photosynthetic ...


Scientists Generate Black Hole Radiation in the Lab

Scientists Generate Black Hole Radiation in the Lab

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (32) | comments 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- Due to their violent nature and long distance from Earth, black holes and their surroundings are very difficult to study. Currently, the main method to observe a black hole is to use an X-ray ...


Scientists Track Heat in Tiny Rolls of Carbon Atoms

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- IBM Research scientists today announced a landmark study in the field of nanoelectronics; the development and demonstration of novel techniques to measure the distribution of energy and heat in powered carbon ...


Renewable energies will benefit US workers

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Expansion of renewable energies should appreciably improve the health status of the 700,000 US workers employed in the energy sector, according to a commentary by Medical College of Wisconsin researchers, in Milwaukee. Their ...


Measuring Electron Orbitals

Measuring Electron Orbitals

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, it has been possible to measure electron density in individual molecular states using what is known as the photoelectric effect. Now published in Science, this method repres ...


High in Sodium: Highly Charged Tungsten Ions May Diagnose Fusion Energy Reactors

High in Sodium: Highly Charged Tungsten Ions May Diagnose Fusion Energy Reactors

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Just as health-food manufacturers work on developing the best possible sodium substitutes for low-salt diets, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have acquired ...



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