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Slide show: Total eclipse sweeps over Asia
See highlights from the 21st century's longest-lasting total solar eclipse.
The Raindrop Explodes: Why Droplets' Sizes Vary
In this remarkable slow motion video, researchers have seen, for the first time, exactly how small raindrops are created from a single larger so-called parent drop.
Radar Could Save Bats from Wind Turbines
Radar technology can make wind power less deadly for bats.
Cagey Solution: Will Nano Traps Make Geothermal Power Earthquake-Safe?
Earth's molten mantle is a potentially inexhaustible source of energy that could meet 10 percent of our nation's energy needs, but cost and safety concerns have hampered the growth of geothermal energy. Now,...
Glittering and glinting, the world's biggest diamond structure heads to the West End
The largest representation ever created of the atomic structure of diamond will be brought to the West End on Tuesday for public exhibition...
Chasing Tiny Vehicles: Microscope Shows How Nanoferries Invade Cells
In future therapies, synthetic nanoparticles may well be able to ferry medicines and even genes to targets inside the body. These nanovehicles can now be directly tested and optimized using...
Key To Designing Quantum Information Networks: Quantum Memory And Turbulence In Ultra-cold Atoms
Scientists have figured out a key step toward the design of quantum information networks. A quantum network – in which memory devices that store quantum states are interconnected with quantum...
Laser Technology Creates New Forms Of Metal And Enhances Aircraft Performance
Researchers are using laser light technology that will help the military create new forms of metal that may guide, attract and repel liquids and cool small electronic devices.
Controlling The Electronic Surface Properties Of A Material
Researchers in Switzerland have for the first time created thin films with controllable electronic properties. This discovery could have a large impact on future applications in sensors and computing.
Rise of the biological machines
This week synthetic biologist Paul Freemont, professor of protein crystallography at Imperial College London, argues that the future lies with highly efficient biological machines capable of manufacturing chemicals and drugs or capturing carbon from...
Cooking With Sound: Bio-Mass Burning Stove Also Converts Heat Into Sound Then Electricity
A low-cost generator with the potential to transform lives in the world’s poorest communities is now being tested across the UK and in Nepal. Researchers are developing a bio-mass burning...
India stands firm against binding emissions limits
(AP) -- India stood firm Sunday against Western demands to accept binding limits on carbon emissions even as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton expressed optimism about an...
Scientists zoom in on carbon dioxide in NYC
(AP) -- Wade McGillis peered up at the structure propped like a high-tech stick figure - minus the head - on an elementary school roof. Then he examined the...
String theory hints at explanation for superconductivity
Baroque field gets fresh lease of life in condensed-matter physics.
Amazon sends Orwell to 'memory hole'
Amazon fended off Saturday accusations of Big Brother-like behavior after it quietly erased two George Orwell books from customers' electronic book readers this week.
Novelties: Better Vision, With a Telescope Inside the Eye
A tiny implanted device can improve the eyesight of people with an advanced form of macular degeneration.
Science and the Sublime
The twin energies of scientific curiosity and poetic invention pulsate through this study of the Romantic generation’s “second scientific revolution.”
On Evans & Reimer on Open Access, Science, Feb/Jul 2009
1, 2 & 3: Three critiques of Evans & Reimer
New Isotope Cluster Could Lead To Better Understanding Of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
Scientists have discovered an unexpected concentration of a certain isotopic molecule in parts of the stratosphere that could have implications for understanding the carbon cycle and its response to climate...
By Degrees: A New Enforcer in Buildings, the Energy Inspector
Building leaky, inefficient homes locks in energy waste for decades, but construction codes for many states and cities are weak.
Foam roller adds extra challenge to push-ups
Add an extra challenge to classic push-ups by performing them on the unstable surface of a foam roller. Begin doing them on your knees until you develop the necessary strength...
New low-cost accessories offer better biking
Adjustable helmets, low-friction cables for quick shifting, fenders that inflate and a powerful mini-pump are relatively inexpensive innovations. You don't need an eye-catching $9,000 aerodynamic dream machine to make your cycling faster, more comfortable...
Humans glow in the dark
Ultra-sensitive cameras reveal that our bodies emit tiny amounts of light that are too weak for the human eye to detect Amazing pictures of "glittering" human bodies have been released by Japanese scientists...
Canada Gains New Research and Product Development Centre for Nanotechnology
Canada's National Institute for Nanotechnology will soon be home to a new electron microscopy research and product development centre. The Hitachi Electron Microscopy Products Development Centre (HEMiC) at the...
Graphene -- the copy beats the original
(PhysOrg.com) -- The first artificial graphene has been created at the NEST laboratory of the Italian Institute for the Physics of Matter (INFM-CNR) in Pisa. It is sculpted on the...
Window opened on nanodot domain state formation
Scientists have directly observed how domain states form in nanometre-scale ferroelectric crystals for the first time
The science of longer lasting lager
Chemists have designed a polymer that can improve the shelf life of drinks, such as beer
Strange vibrations
Far from increasing chemical reactivity, vibrating chemical bonds can in some cases prevent a reaction, Taiwanese researchers discover