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Atomic weights change to reflect natural variations
Atomic weights for elements including hydrogen, carbon and oxygen to be stated as intervals
Electric car Leaf's battery 'can be used at home'
Renault-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn has suggested that an electric car's rechargeable battery could be used in the home long after the vehicle has died.
Microchip powers itself with solar cells
Scientists have developed microchips capable of running without batteries or electricity, instead harvesting energy using tiny solar cells placed on the chip's microelectronics.
Champion hydrogen-producing microbe
Inside a small cabinet the size of a dorm refrigerator in one of Himadri B. Pakrasi's labs, a blue-green soup percolates in thick glass bottles under the cool light of...
Bulgaria drafts green energy measure
SOFIA, Bulgaria, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Bulgaria aims to use renewable energy to meet at least 10 percent of its energy resources for transportation by 2020, the government said.
Resolving the high pressure phases of calcium
(PhysOrg.com) -- Significant experimental and theoretical work has been devoted to the electronic, structural and superconducting properties of calcium (Ca) at high pressure.
Brazilian bureaucracy ‘delays scientific research’
A poll among Brazilian scientists has shown that difficulties in importing equipment and other materials have affected their research projects.
Tunable plastic thermometers
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Universities of Queensland and New South Wales in Australia have discovered that the ability of a plastic to conduct electricity can be tuned by exposure...
Champion hydrogen-producing microbe
The cyanobacteria are famous for releasing the oxygen that made the Earth a hospitable planet but some strains also have a hidden talent for producing hydrogen gas, a potential biofuel....
Carbon monoxide sends 6 to hospital
Six people - including two paramedics - are taken to a Calgary hospital after being exposed to carbon monoxide.
Dot Earth: Beyond Political Science
Two views on how to overcome paralyzing political divisions on climate and other issues framed by science.
NASA helps create a more silent night
The holidays are here and the nation's airports are busier than ever -- thousands of airplanes taking off and landing. Passengers and people living around airports are reminded that the...
Calif. to set up electric car infrastructure
An alliance of automakers, utilities, regulators and clean-air advocates have released an ambitious plan to make California a leader in accommodating electric vehicles with charging terminals.
Duke University Wraps Up Misconduct Inquiry
Investigation: School draws ire for not disclosing results of its probe of a faculty biochemist.
Nanotechnology: Tiny channels carry big information
Researchers have been able to fabricate nanochannels that are only two nanometers in size, using standard semiconductor manufacturing processes. Already they've discovered that fluid mechanics for passages this small are...
Nanoparticles Accumulate In The Food Chain
Nanomaterials: Gold nanoparticles become more concentrated as they move from plants to herbivores.
Anomalous Surface Compositions of Mixed Oxides
(PhysOrg.com) -- Mixed oxide compounds are used in many fields including ceramics, catalysis, electrolysis and even pigment design. Despite the extensive applications of such mixed oxide materials, little is known...
Consumer safety bill passes Parliament
Canada's new Consumer Product Safety Act has passed Parliament and will be coming into force in the next few months.
Making wafers faster by making features smaller
The manufacturing of semiconductor wafers used in all types of electronics involves etching small features onto a wafer with lasers, a process that is ultimately limited by the wavelength of...
Single quantum dot nanowire photodetectors
Moving a step closer toward quantum computing, a research team in the Netherlands recently fabricated a photodetector based on a single nanowire, in which the active element is a single...
Toshiba introduces enterprise-class solid state drive family
Extending its position in the enterprise storage market, Toshiba Corporation today announced its new family of enterprise-class solid state drives (SSDs). Developed to meet the market's demand for higher...
Iridium memories
One of the rarest metals on Earth may be an excellent option for enabling future flash memory chips to continue to increase in speed and density, according to a group...
Combustion Research Facility Fires Up
An experimental combustion facility at Washington University in St. Louis will be used to study the burning of coal with oxygen rather than with air, which contains large amounts of...
Rationalization measures are the main cause of poor work environment
Managers in the private and public sectors must consider work environment when rationalising production to obtain sustainable systems. A research study published in the journal Applied Ergonomics reveals that...
Health-conscious future could stem from smartphones
The latest smartphones are equipped with a range of technologies that can pinpoint your location. It's only a matter of time before they'll also be able to detect your every...
Powerful New Microscope Puts UD at Forefront in Biomedical Imaging
The University of Delaware is now one of only a handful of universities with a microscope so powerful that researchers can measure a single molecule within a cell.
Speeding up electrons in solar cells
Self assembling nanowire electrodes for dye-sensitised solar cells transport electrons faster
I went to Cern but failed to see the Large Hadron Collider
To record the Christmas edition of the Guardian's Science Weekly podcast, multimedia producer Andy Duckworth spent five hours among the most intelligent researchers on the planetI made it to within 100 metres of...