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Schedule Set For Mercury Reductions
Clean Air: Court gives EPA deadline of 2011 to regulate metal in power plant emissions.
Seeing previously invisible molecules for the first time
A team of Harvard chemists led by X. Sunney Xie has developed a new microscopic technique for seeing, in colour, molecules with undetectable fluorescence. The room-temperature technique allows researchers to...
Berkeley researchers find new route to nano self-assembly
If the promise of nanotechnology is to be fulfilled, nanoparticles will have to be able to make something of themselves. An important advance towards this goal has been achieved by...
Nuclear energy becomes pivotal in climate debate
(AP) -- Nuclear energy, once vilified by environmentalists and facing a dim future, has become a pivotal bargaining chip as Senate Democrats hunt for Republican votes to pass climate...
Mystery Of Nanopillars Solved: Research Paves Way For New 3-D Lithography Method
Scientists have uncovered the physical mechanism by which arrays of nanoscale pillars can be grown on polymer films with very high precision, in potentially limitless patterns. This nanofluidic process could...
From Motown to TechTown
Detroit Tries to Transform Itself into a Technology Hot Spot to Create Jobs
Bioengineering Crops For Biofuels And Energy
There is nothing to stop biodiesel making an immediate impact in reducing the world's dependence on fossil fuels that contribute to global warming. Using biodiesel requires no major changes to...
Campaign to Reduce Carbon Dioxide Levels Picks a Number to Make a Point
Activists on Saturday performed synchronized demonstrations centering on 350 parts per million, which some scientists have said is the upper limit for heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Cleanliness May Foster Morality
A simple spritz of a fresh-smelling window cleaner made people more fair and generous in a new study.
Largest solar panel plant in US rises in Fla.
(AP) -- Greg Bove steps into his pickup truck and drives down a sandy path to where the future of Florida's renewable energy plans begin: Acres of open land...
Carefully Cleaning Up the Garbage at Los Alamos
Workers are using $212 million in federal stimulus money to clean up the 65-year-old dump, which was used by the scientists who built the world’s first atomic bomb.
Carl Icahn Resigns from Yahoo's Board
Activist Investor Resigns 15 Months After Muscling His Way Onto Slumping Internet Company's Board
Lewisporte won't lose X-ray lab: health minister
Newfoundland and Labrador has cancelled its provincewide review of X-ray and laboratory services and relented on a plan to close or move some facilities.
Transforming Nanowires Into Nano-tools Using Cation Exchange Reactions
A team of engineers has transformed simple nanowires into reconfigurable materials and circuits, demonstrating a novel, self-assembling method for chemically creating nanoscale structures that are not possible to grow or...
Highlight: Capturing quasiparticles
(PhysOrg.com) -- A physics research team from the University of St Andrews and Cornell University in the USA has managed to 'photograph' the traces left by orbiting electrons in a...
Energy reports 'a waste of time'
A Scottish building company criticises the system used to assess how energy efficient new homes are.
What Comes After Hard Drives?
(PhysOrg.com) -- The ability to store and retrieve data is an important component of today's computers, as well as other modern electronic devices such as cell phones, video game consoles,...
Solar lantern lights up rural India's dark nights
For more than 100 Indian villages cut off from grid electricity, life no longer comes to an end after dark thanks to an innovative solar-powered lantern that offers hope to...
Oxygen exchangers increase propene yield
Dutch researcher Jurriaan Beckers has shown that the yield of propene can be increased by adding cerium oxide during the production process. Propene is an important raw material for the...
Nanoscience brings artworks back to life
Micro-emulsion gels selectively remove aged polymer coatings from the surface of valuable works of art
Carbenes catalyse metal-metal bonds in organometallics
Carbene-mediated transformation of organometallic compounds to create metal–metal bonds could lead to new catalysts
Sharp Develops Solar Cell with World's Highest Conversion Efficiency of 35.8%
Sharp Corporation has achieved the world's highest solar cell conversion efficiency (for non-concentrator solar cells) of 35.8% using a triple-junction compound solar cell.
Another Would-Be Z' Signal Awaiting Us At 600 GeV
Ready for another turn into National-Enquirer mode of particle physics reporting ? I have a figure to discuss. It is a result now a few months old, but one which...
Largest Carbon Sequestration Plant To Pump 3.3 Million Tons Of CO2 Into Ground
Even before a single ounce of natural gas gets burned in a home or power plant, massive amounts of CO2 have already been released. The process of extracting natural gas releases carbon...
Technology to Treat Blindness Earns Award
Wolfgang Fink, senior researcher at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., is part of a Department of Energy-funded consortium that has received one of R&D Magazine's 2009 R&D 100...
New material could efficiently power tiny generators
(PhysOrg.com) -- To power a very small device like a pacemaker or a transistor, you need an even smaller generator. The components that operate the generator are smaller yet, and...
Researchers can precisely manipulate polarization in nanostructures
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, working with American researchers, have succeeded in using an electrical signal to control both...
DIY Clean Rooms
Today, while thrift-shopping, I found an important component for my satellite building. Yes, it's a rolling trunk, and I'll admit it's not the most exciting science prop. But there are four...