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Ion Channels Caught In Their Opening Act
Each thought or action sends a million electrical signals pulsing through your body. At the heart of the process of generating these electrical impulses is the ion channel. A new...
Thin-film dyes boost solar cells
Concentrators increase solar cells' power output by an order of magnitude
Study: As Gas Prices Go Up, Auto Deaths Decline
Today's high gas prices could reduce auto deaths by nearly a third as driving decreases.
Ashland To Buy Hercules For $3.3 Billion
Deal will create a specialty chemical firm focused on additives, paper technologies, and specialty resins
Japanese particle-physics leader dies
Yoji Totsuka, former head of the KEK high-energy physics lab, dies at 66
N.B. hospital loses power after copper wire thefts
Copper thefts at five NB Power substations caused service interruptions for about 10,000 customers this week, including at a hospital.
Leak closes French nuclear plant
French authorities order a nuclear plant in the country's south to close temporarily following a uranium leak.
Amy Wagers - focusing on stem cell biology
.Twenty minutes after her weekly lab meeting is scheduled to begin, Amy Wagers rushes into a conference room on the fourth floor of the Joslin Diabetes Center, where her lab...
'Fuel for thought' on transport sector challenges
The report: Fuel for thought - The future of transport fuels: challenges and opportunities addresses two serious issues - the need to dramatically reduce the transport sector's greenhouse...
Chemist 'Really Jazzed' About Creating New Molecules
Every time you spray an odor-remover like Febreze on a stinky carpet, you unleash good-smelling chemicals that are carried in neat little protective molecules called molecular containers.
Solar dyes give a guiding light
A new solar technology could increase the power generated by solar panels tenfold, a team of scientists show.
Verizon open network gets first, unsexy device
(AP) -- When Verizon Wireless announced in November that it would open up its network to any company that wanted to make a device for it, industry watchers had...
Swept Up In The Winds Of Change
With so much hype about - and so much invested in - wind power, Daniel Sieberg wanted to find out how it actually worked. So he went to America's other...
Obituary: David Caminer
Obituary: Computer pioneer who invented systems engineering and revolutionised J Lyons
New hearing aid technology passes the restaurant noise test
The sound of a noisy Chicago restaurant during the breakfast rush — the clang of plates and silverware and the clamor of many voices — was the crucial test of...
Waves, Particles, and Medicine in Houston: 50th AAPM Meeting, July 27 to July 31
Later this month, thousands of scientists and health professionals from the field of medical physics will meet at the 50th meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)...
Physicists Discover New Particle: the Bottom-most 'Bottomonium'
(PhysOrg.com) -- Thirty years ago, particle physics delighted in discovering the "bottomonium" family—the set of particles that contain both a bottom quark and an anti-bottom quark but are bound together...
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R&D 100 Award for new NIST/UMD neutron detector
A new ultrasensitive, high bandwidth neutron detector developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland (UMD) will receive one of this year's "R&D...
Heat Switch for Fuel Filler Flaps
Just in time - the car coasts into the gas station on its last drop of fuel. In order to fill the tank, the driver first has to release...
Comparing apples and pears: Scientists see health-determining air paths in fruit
Pears and apples contain air pathways to "breathe". The pathways are microscopically small structures for oxygen supply and are key elements in determining the fruit's health.
Toothpick: New molecular tag IDs bone and tooth minerals
Enlisting an army of plant viruses to their cause, materials researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have identified a small biomolecule that binds specifically to one of...
Researchers unveil near-complete protein catalog for mitochondria
Imagine trying to figure out how your car's power train works from just a few of its myriad components: It would be nearly impossible. Scientists have long faced a similar...
Catalyst In A Bottle Works Better
Trapping metal particles inside nanotubes alters physical and chemical properties
Software System Maps Entire Production Flow For Automobile Production
Control systems map the entire production flow and make it possible to see the whole factory at a glance. The new control system ProVis.Agent, which controls the Mercedes C-class production,...
Concentrating sunlight cuts solar power costs
Combination of organic dyes can concentrate sunlight and feed ‘better’ wavelengths to photovoltaic cells
Multitasking Nanotechnology: Tiny Electronically Active Chemicals Can Form Ordered Layers
Tiny electronically active chemicals can be made to form ordered layers on a surface. These nanostructured layers may one day be used to build the components of electronics devices, such...
US Airways cuts films from domestic flights to save on fuel
US Airways is removing movie screens from its domestic flights in a bid to save on fuel and other expenses.