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Researchers examining electric vehicles and the power grid
As plug-in electric vehicles become an ever more central part of America's daily life, University of Notre Dame researchers are anticipating what that development will mean for the nation's power...
A New Look At Harvesting Light
Biochemistry: Molecules key to color vision can be manipulated to alter their light-absorbing properties
Higgs Boson makes it a champagne year for physics
2012 will go down in history as a landmark year, when physicists discovered a fundamental particle that may answer one of the greatest riddles of all.
Andy Serkis: The actor inside a character's skin
The actor acclaimed for his motion capture performances in "Lord of the Rings" returns as Gollum in "The Hobbit"
Energy Bits – young people doing their bit to improve the environment | Daniel Melandri
A unique project encourages school students to make films about creating a sustainable world for their own childrenYoung people from all over Europe are working with broadcasters to create films about improving their...
Colliding Particles : Blogs | Jon Butterworth | Life & Physics
Episode 10, in which we discuss blogging the bosonEpisode 10 of Colliding Particles. The view from the living room. Not mine. I'm in the weird lime-green office at UCL. The...
Supersymmetry: is it really too good not to be true?
Supersymmetry is a beautiful theory that might explain dark matter – now particle physicists at Cern are putting it to the ultimate testThe origin of dark matter remains a mystery. It is...
Pesticide Residues On Organic: What Do We Know?
Are there really less pesticide residues on organic crops? The answer might not be as simple as you think. read more
Dot Earth Blog: Vaclav Smil - A Welcome Reality Checker
Vaclav Smil looks at an inevitable megadisaster, electric cars and fertilizer fears.
End-Run Around The Diffraction Limit: Shrinking Light To Billionths Of A Meter
In modern times, we have been spoiled by the ability of the private sector to make technology shrink in both cost and size - but Moore's Law can't do that...
New chemical reaction could explain how stars form, evolve, and eventually die
Researchers have discovered a molecular-level interaction that science had puzzled over for decades but had never seen. That discovery, it turns out, may redefine how science views chemical compound formation....
Can compressed fluids increase enzyme activity in industrial bioprocesses?
Enzymes play a crucial role as biocatalysts, increasing the speed and efficiency and decreasing the energy consumption of biochemical reactions in many industrial processes. The advantages of using compressed propane...
Optical drives heading for obsolescence
CUPERTINO, Calif., Dec. 7 (UPI) -- "Burning a disc" may be a thing of the past as optical disc drives join other technologies made obsolete by advances in computer...
5 Reasons We May Live in a Multiverse
Our universe may be one of many, according to numerous physics theories.
Green Blog: A Pledge to Reform Greedy Set-Top Boxes
Manufacturers and cable TV providers say the boxes will incorporate a light sleep mode and undergo other improvements to improve their energy efficiency. Some say the promises don't go far...
Italy raids target mafia moves on wind, solar farms
Italian police on Friday arrested six people in an operation to combat the penetration of mafia families in the renewable energy sector in Sicily.
New Microscopy Technique Gets Close Enough To See The Lengths Of Atomic Bonds
Atomic Snapshot Courtesy IBM Research-ZurichA one-atom-wide probe scans a molecule to get the view. For the first time, scientists have used an imaging technique that's so precise that it's...
Natural Gas Nation: EIA Sees U.S. Future Shaped by Fracking
The U.S. government energy outlook sees broad impact of new oil and gas abundance. Renewable energy captures a small future share without policy or technological change.
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Black boxes in cars raise privacy concerns
(AP)—Many motorists don't know it, but it's likely that every time they get behind the wheel, there's a snitch along for the ride.
Nanostructured Thin Film Eases Drug Delivery
Nanomaterials: A new method allows large proteins to pass directly through epithelial tissue
Scientists use a custom-designed machine and a reprogrammed Xbox controller to create atomically precise lenses
Unleashing some of the most promising energy technologies of tomorrow—from electric vehicle fuel cells to photovoltaics—hinges upon understanding tiny structures spanning just billionths of a meter. One way to explore...
Oxygen nucleus with twice as many neutrons as normal is shown to be surprisingly stable
The nucleus at the heart of an atom is held together by a subtle balance between the nuclear force that binds protons and neutrons and the electric repulsion that tries...
Caltech engineers invent light-focusing device
(Phys.org)—As technology advances, it tends to shrink. From cell phones to laptops—powered by increasingly faster and tinier processors—everything is getting thinner and sleeker. And now light beams are getting smaller,...
X-ray resonance scattering can reveal the magnetic properties of transition metal oxides made out of heavy elements
Transition metal oxides are known for their interesting properties, including high-temperature superconductivity and resistance that can be tuned with a magnetic field. Researchers have mainly focused on oxides made from...
Point of light: Light-focusing device may lead to applications in computing, communications, and imaging
Engineers have created a device that can focus light into a point just a few nanometers (billionths of a meter) across -- an achievement they say may lead to next-generation...
Striped nanoparticle controversy blows up
Arguments centre over whether nano-structures are a result of self-assembly or simply an experimental artefact
Looking through the opaque screen for sharper images
Taking images through opaque, light-scattering layers is a vital capability and essential diagnostic tool in many disciplines, including nanotechnology and the biosciences. Current techniques are unable to image through opaque...