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Rutherford Building cancers a "coincidence"
Independent inquiry finds cancer connection to historic radiation experiments "unlikely".
Speedier computer circuits created
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 28 (UPI) -- Physicists at the University of California-San Diego say they've created speedy integrated computer circuits capable of working in very cold environments.
Slime-Dispensing Hulls Could Boost Fuel Efficiency For Ships
A DOD-backed project would give ships a regenerating slime layer to help shed unwanted marine life Slime ships ahoy! A vessel that oozes a continual slick layer of slime from its hull...
Carbon Nanostructure Research May Lead To Revolutionary New Devices
Research into carbon nanostructures may some day be used in electronic, thermal, mechanical and sensing devices for the Air Force.
How Would Einstein Use E-mail? Letter Writers Of Yore Had Same Correspondence Patterns As E-mail Users Today
You're not as different from Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin after all, at least when it comes to patterns of correspondence. A new study of human behavior has determined that...
Inventing Controversy, Arousing Suspicions – ‘House of Numbers’ Doesn’t Add Up
At the end of April this year, a 90 minute film was released directed by a man called Brent Leung. This film was titled ‘House of Numbers’, and is shot...
Silk-based Optical Waveguides Meet Biomedical Needs
Researchers demonstrate a new way to make silk-based optical waveguides that are biocompatible, biodegradable and readily functionalized with active molecules. This opens up opportunities in biologically based modulation and sensing...
Lab Demonstrates 3-D Printing In Glass
A team of engineers and artists has developed a way to create glass objects using a conventional 3-D printer. The technique allows a new type of material to be used...
Rough day at work? You won't feel like exercising
Have you ever sat down to work on a crossword puzzle only to find that afterwards you haven't the energy to exercise? Or have you come home from a rough...
The science of uranium enrichment
Gas centrifuges are used to enrich uranium to make either fuel for nuclear reactors or fissionable material for nuclear weapons. To make enough fuel for a commercial reactor takes tens of thousands of...
Lawrence Berkeley scientists confirm element 114 finding
First seen 10 years ago in Russia, it's the heaviest element seen in more than one lab. Unfortunately, its instability limits its potential usefulness. Ten years after Russian scientists first reported it, researchers at...
Faster than Flash, Meltable Phase-Change Computer Memory Is Finally in Production
It's been 40 years in the making. This week Samsung finally announced they've kicked phase-change memory (PCM) into mass production. In a nutshell, PCM stores information by melting and freezing microscopic crystals. In...
Power grid chief touts electric-car payback
U.S. power grid chief Jon Wellinghoff is touting the long-term cost savings of electric cars, saying the vehicles could earn $1,500 a year in paybacks for their owners when their...
Twinkling Nanostars Improve Optical Imaging of Tumors
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Purdue University have created magnetically responsive gold nanostars that may offer a new approach to biomedical imaging. The nanostars gyrate when exposed to a rotating magnetic...
New MRI protein probe
MRI tag based on fluorine selectively ‘switch on’ in the presence of a target protein
TierneyLab: Scrubbing the Atmosphere
The technology for air capture of carbon could be a much cheaper form of climate protection than photovoltaic cells and other approaches getting lavish support.
Prototype Developed To Detect Dark Matter
A team of researchers from Spain has developed a "scintillating bolometer" -- a device that the scientists will use in efforts to detect the dark matter of the universe.
Build a Better Bulb for a $10 Million Prize
Philips has the first entry in an Energy Department contest to build a more efficient 60-watt light bulb.
New INL project will improve nuclear reactor simulations
A new project at Idaho National Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory will improve the way scientists model the inner workings of nuclear reactors.
Nanoparticle-based Battlefield Pain Treatment Moves A Step Closer
Nanotechnology scientists have developed a combination drug that promises a safer, more precise way for medics and fellow soldiers in battle to give a fallen soldier both morphine and a...
Swimming Robot Makes Waves At Bath
Researchers have used nature for inspiration in designing a new type of swimming robot which could bring a breakthrough in submersible technology.
Particle feud goes public
Rift in CERN collaboration leads to charge of poor and unethical science
Cheap, sensitive sensors could detect explosives, toxins in water
(PhysOrg.com) -- A sensitive new Stanford-developed disposable chip detects low concentrations of the explosive trinitrotoluene (TNT) and a close chemical cousin of the dreaded toxic nerve agent sarin in water...
Opposites attract -- but they may not stay together
(PhysOrg.com) -- Opposites may always attract. But they may not remain together long-term. In a counter-intuitive discovery published in the current edition of the journal Nature, researchers from Harvard, the...
New Device Tested for Extracting Oxygen from the Moon
The moon has water, but an oxygen generator would also be needed for the possibility of a moon base to become a reality.
Magnetic Nanoparticles Provide Targeted Drug Release
For patients with conditions like cancer, diabetes and chronic pain, taking drugs orally is often insufficient; a more precise and flexible on/off dosing schedule controlled by an implanted device can provide better treatment...
The element tin does what carbon will not
New bonding suggests scientists may need to rethink heavy metal chemistry
Intel's New Light Peak Cable Transfers 10 GB/S, Puts USB To Shame
Despite the fact that optical cables transmit data far faster than copper wire, wire is still the primary medium for communication on computer chips, and between computers and devices through USB cables. But...