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Syria opens spigot on energy sector
DAMASCUS, Syria, April 15 (UPI) -- New developments in the Syrian oil and gas sector allow the country to expand production while ensuring a strong customer base, ministers said...
Graphene: Super-thin material advances toward next-generation applications
Graphene maintains its superior thermal conductivity even when supported by a substrate, according to new research. The findings by a team of researchers underscore graphene's potential role in the next...
Sensor weights cells with unique precision
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 14 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they have created a sensor that can measure cells with unprecedented precision, determining the rate at which single cells accumulate...
Engineered Virus Harnesses Light To Split Water
One main goal in the renewable energy field is to find an efficient, inexpensive way to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen could then be used as a...
Organic ternary data storage device developed
(PhysOrg.com) -- The memory capacity of electronics devices could be increased in future thanks to an organic data storage system using ternary rather than binary data storage. The current prototype...
Study shows that size affects structure of hollow nanoparticles
A new study from North Carolina State University shows that size plays a key role in determining the structure of certain hollow nanoparticles. The researchers focused on nickel nanoparticles, which...
Salty Coronene Sorts Carbon Nanotubes
Scientists take advantage of organic salt's interactions to separate metallic and semiconducting nanotubes.
Energy grant boosts hydrokinetic power
PENNINGTON, N.J., April 12 (UPI) -- Funding from the U.S. Department of Energy targets efforts to increase the efficiency of hydrokinetic technology by more than 200 percent, executives said.
Iran schedules construction for IPI
TEHRAN, April 12 (UPI) -- Construction of a natural gas pipeline from the South Pars gas field to Pakistan and possibly India could start in Iranian territory in May,...
Total shines in green technology
COURBEVOIE, France, April 12 (UPI) -- French supermajor Total announced a decision to lead a working group to develop urban solar projects as part of an industrial consortium.
Eni posts huge gas find in Venezuela
ROME, April 12 (UPI) -- Italian oil and gas company Eni said Monday that shallow-water exploration for gas in the Gulf of Venezuela yielded the largest gas find ever...
Tiny diamond sparklers may hold the key to big advances in biomedical imaging technology
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers, led by Macquarie University Associate Professor James Rabeau, have discovered that the properties of light emitted from tiny isolated nano-diamonds are completely different from...
When the air turns brown: Scientists discover reactions that create climate-changing brown carbon aerosol
(PhysOrg.com) -- A recent study led by Drs. Julia and Alexander Laskin from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Prof. Sergey Nizkorodov from the University of California, Irvine revealed atmospheric chemistry...
Sharp says to launch 3D televisions by summer
Japanese electronics giant Sharp said Monday it will begin selling 3D televisions before the summer, as competition in the sector intensifies.
The assembly of protein strands into fibrils
The Atomic Force Microscope depicts on its screen the few nanometre thick and few micrometre long fibres as white flexible sticks, crisscrossing the surface on which they are deposited. The...
U.S. Air Force's Mystery X-37B Space Plane Fuels Speculation
The Air Force is on the verge of showcasing a new, long-sought after capacity with its X-37B space plane, but cloaked in secrecy.
Inexpensive highly efficient solar cells possible
The scientific and commercial future of solar cells could be totally transformed. Scientists have come up with solutions for two problems that, for the last twenty years, have been hampering...
Feds Step Up Probe into Tech Hiring Practices
Inquiry Said to Focus on Agreement Not to Recruit Each Others' Employees
New fuel could solve fusion
Researchers may have finally discovered a way to make fusion a viable source of energy, using a special fuel and powerful lasers.
Exotic quantum spin-liquid simulated: A starting point for superconductivity?
An exotic state of matter that physicists call a "quantum spin-liquid" can be realized by electrons in a honeycomb crystal structure, researchers in Germany report.
Scientists Race to Engineer a New Magnet for Electronics
Magnets for wind turbines and hybrid electric cars may currently depend upon an uncertain rare earth supply, but researchers backed by the U.S. Department of Energy hope to change that...
2012: The Higgs Is Found, Or Ruled Out
In two years the Higgs boson will be close to discovery, and its mass already known, or the particle will be already in the trash bin. That is the single...
Evacuating 70,000 sports fans in less than an hour?
What sports fan hasn't grumbled while waiting in a long, snaking lines to get into the stadium for the big game? It's enough to discourage even a diehard fan. But...
Does Our Universe Live Inside a Wormhole?
Theoretical physicist argues that we may exist between two universes
Kent's Lydd airport highlights battle between expansion and eco-concern
More than 12,000 protesters object to a bio-diverse hub witnessing a huge increase in air travel The meandering approach road to Lydd airport weaves its way across Romney Marsh, past reed–fringed ditches and...
Cell phones that protect against deadly chemicals? Why not?
Do you carry a cell phone? Today, chances are it's called a "smartphone" and it came with a three-to-five megapixel lens built-in -- not to mention an MP3 player,...
From Solid Block Copolymer To Highly Porous Membrane
Polyethylene/polylactide copolymer, stripped of its polylactide segments, becomes a useful porous material.
Data Storage Goes Organic
Materials Science: Device relies on changes in azo conductivity.