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Prefunding prescription drugs for seniors necessary

Medicine & Health / Medications

created 12 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A prefunded plan where Canadians would contribute to a dedicated fund during their working years to pay for their prescription drugs when they reach 65 would help protect public health care, according to ...


Student Builds Spider Robot From Spare Parts

Student Builds Spider Robot From Spare Parts (w/ Video)

Electronics / Robotics

created 12 hours ago | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 3

Picture a spider-like robot that teaches itself to walk, can adapt when damaged and watches its maker as he moves around the room. That might sound terrifying.


Women on board: Does forced diversity hurt firm performance?

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created 13 hours ago | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- New SEC rules will require public firms to disclose what role, if any, diversity plays in appointing members to their corporate boards, but University of Michigan researchers say any forced restructuring ...


Leaf veins inspire a new model for distribution networks (w/ Video)

Physics / General Physics

created 15 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

(PhysOrg.com) -- Following the straight and narrow may be good moral advice, but it’s not a great design principle for a distribution network. In new research, a team of biophysicists describe a complex netting of interconnected ...


Researchers develop 'lab on a chip' that detects viruses (w/ Video)

Researchers develop 'lab on a chip' that detects viruses (w/ Video)

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Feb 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Brigham Young University engineers and chemists has created an inexpensive silicon microchip that reliably detects viruses, even at low concentrations.


Scientists discover novel materials approach to fighting cancer (w/ Video)

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 08, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago Medical Center are shaking up the world of materials science and cancer research on the cover of the ...


Sony Launches Short-Range Wireless Technology (w/ Video)

Sony Launches Short-Range Wireless Technology (w/ Video)

Technology / Telecom

created Feb 08, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 5 | with audio podcast weblog

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first compliant products, that will use Sony’s TransferJet technology, will start appearing in products as early as the spring of this year. Its design will enable file swapping, between ...


By tracking water molecules, physicists hope to unlock secrets of life

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Feb 08, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

(PhysOrg.com) -- Compared to any other liquid on Earth, water behaves in strange and unexpected ways, yet its unusual properties enable and protect life as we know it. By tracking individual water molecules in a "supercooled" ...


Solar Dynamics Observatory: The 'Variable Sun' Mission

Solar Dynamics Observatory: The 'Variable Sun' Mission

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 05, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (17) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

For some years now, an unorthodox idea has been gaining favor among astronomers. It contradicts old teachings and unsettles thoughtful observers, especially climatologists.


Electrons on the brink: Fractal patterns may be key to semiconductor magnetism

Electrons on the brink: Fractal patterns may be key to semiconductor magnetism (w/ Video)

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 05, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (12) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

(PhysOrg.com) -- Just as the heartbeats of today's electronic devices depend on the ability to switch the flow of electricity in semiconductors on and off with lightning speed, the viability of the "spintronic" ...


Cars of the future could be powered by their bodywork thanks to new battery technology

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Feb 05, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (8) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Parts of a car's bodywork could one day double up as its battery, according to the scientists behind a new €3.4 million project announced today.


'Nanobubbles' kill cancer cells

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 04, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (24) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using lasers and nanoparticles, scientists at Rice University have discovered a new technique for singling out individual diseased cells and destroying them with tiny explosions. The scientists used lasers ...


NIST’s Second ‘Quantum Logic Clock’ Based on Aluminum Ion is Now World’s Most Precise Clock

'Quantum Logic Clock' Based on Aluminum Ion is Now World's Most Precise Clock (w/ Video)

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Feb 04, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (21) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have built an enhanced version of an experimental atomic clock based on a single aluminum atom that is now the world’s most ...


New Hubble Maps of Pluto Show Surface Changes

New Hubble Maps of Pluto Show Surface Changes (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Feb 04, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA today released the most detailed set of images ever taken of the distant dwarf planet Pluto. The images taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope show an icy and dark molasses-colored, mottled ...


Aiming to the side

'Zen' bats hit their target by not aiming at it (w/ Video)

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 04, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New research conducted at the University of Maryland's bat lab shows Egyptian fruit bats find a target by NOT aiming their guiding sonar directly at it. Instead, they alternately point the sound beam to either ...