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Protein Folding: Diverse Methods Yield Clues
Physicists have written the next chapter in an innovative approach for studying the forces that shape proteins. The new research illustrates the value of studying proteins with a new method...
The perfect cut
The ability to cut onions into thin slices isn't just a matter of practice - choosing the right implement also helps make good onion rings. The same principle applies when...
Bladder cells feel stretch
Japanese research group led by Prof. Makoto Tominaga and Dr. Takaaki Sokabe (National Institute for Physiological Sciences: NIPS), and Prof. Masayuki Takeda, Dr. Isao Araki and Dr. Tsutomu Mochizuki (Yamanashi...
Particle collider: Black hole or crucial machine?
(AP) -- When launched to great fanfare nearly a year ago, some feared the Large Hadron Collider would create a black hole that would suck in the world. It...
Dark Energy From the Ground Up: Make Way for BigBOSS
(PhysOrg.com) -- Several ways have been proposed to examine dark energy, in hopes of finding out just what it is. One of them, "supernovae" for short, certainly works: it's how...
Wastewater produces electricity and desalinates water
A process that cleans wastewater and generates electricity can also remove 90 percent of salt from brackish water or seawater, according to an international team of researchers from China and...
NRL's XFC UAS achieves flight endurance milestone
The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has completed a successful flight test of the fuel cell powered XFC (eXperimental Fuel Cell) unmanned aerial system (UAS). During the 2 June flight test,...
Caltech researchers show how organic carbon compounds emitted by trees affect air quality
A previously unrecognised player in the process by which gases produced by trees and other plants become aerosols - microscopically small particles in the atmosphere - has been discovered by...
Beep, beep, oops, what was I doing?
'That blasted siren. I can't focus.' That reaction to undesired distraction may signal a person's low working-memory capacity, according to a new study...
New experiment could reveal make-up of the universe
The detectors will become part of the Advanced Gamma Tracking Array (AGATA) experiment, currently based in Italy, which aims to create a 'fingerprint' of the inside of the atomic nucleus...
Organic aerosol mystery solved
Oxidation of volatile plant-derived molecule in the atmosphere leads to influential aerosol formation
Nanoscale origami from DNA
Scientists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) and Harvard University have thrown the lid off a new toolbox for building nanoscale structures out of DNA, with complex twisting and curving...
Large Hadron Collider To Run At 3.5 TeV For Early Part Of 2009-2010 Run, Rising Later
CERN 's Large Hadron Collider will initially run at an energy of 3.5 TeV per beam when it starts up in November this year. This news comes after all tests...
Exposing the flaw in Planck’s law
A novel cantilever uncovers a tremendous hike in radiation transfer at the nanoscale
Soap films burst like flapping flags
High speed photography reveals how punctures expand in soap films
LHC Will Begin Running at Half Energy
Physicists dial down the energy of the world's biggest atom smasher to ensure safety of faulty electrical connections
Physicists to study attractive and repulsive forces crucial in designing nano-machines
The Casimir force, also known as the Casimir effect, is typified by the small attractive force that acts between two close parallel uncharged conducting plates. Today, this force has become...
Touchable Hologram Becomes Reality (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the University of Tokyo have developed 3D holograms that can be touched with bare hands. Generally, holograms can't be felt because they're made only of light....
Sony Debuts Digital Still Camera with Back-Illuminated 'Exmor R' CMOS Sensor
Sony today announced two new Cyber-shot cameras (DSC-TX1 and DSC-WX1 models) that provide unprecedented advances in low-light performance with approximately twice the sensitivity of cameras with traditional image sensors.
DNA twisted into pretzels
Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: Researchers are getting better at bending bunches of DNA molecules into smoothly curving circlets — paving the way for practical nanomachines.
A source of haze
Scientists identify how a hydrocarbon commonly emitted by plants is converted to light-scattering aerosols
First U.S. "Power Tower" Lights Up California
In southern California's Antelope Valley, 24,000 silver-bright mirrors have been positioned to reflect light on two 50-meter-tall towers. And at 11:08 A.M. local time Wednesday, this concentrated light heated steam in those towers...
30-Second Science: Sun and Water Enable New Self-Healing Materials
Three technologies that fix themselves Flexcrete Researchers have known for decades that concrete fixes itself as cement particles near a small crack mix with air and water to form calcium carbonate. But some...
T-Mobile adds 325,000 net subs, mostly prepaid
(AP) -- T-Mobile USA, the fourth-largest wireless carrier in the country, says it added a net 325,000 subscribers in the second quarter, with most of them choosing to prepay...
UC design research points the way so you won't get lost at the hospital
Help is on the way for anyone who has ever gotten lost at a hospital or other health-care setting. That help is in the form of health-care signage symbols being developed...
'Green' energy from algae
In view of the shortage of petrochemical resources and climate change, development of CO2-neutral sustainable fuels is one of the most urgent challenges of our times. Energy plants like rape...
Parity violation in ytterbium is largest ever seen
Berkeley physicists boost parity violation to explore weak force
Micro Flying Robots Can Fly More Effectively Than Flies
There is a long held belief among engineers and biologists that micro flying robots that fly like airplanes and helicopters consume much more energy than micro robots that fly like...