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Light Sensor Breakthrough Could Enhance Digital Cameras
New research could lead to substantial advancements in the performance of a variety of electronic devices including digital cameras.
Biofuel Could Lighten Jet Fuel's Carbon Footprint Over 80 Percent
The seeds of a lowly weed could cut jet fuel's cradle-to-grave carbon emissions by 84 percent.
Chemists Form World's Smallest Droplet Of Acid
Exactly four water molecules and one hydrogen chloride molecule are necessary to form the smallest droplet of acid. Chemists have carried out experiments at ultracold temperatures close to absolute zero...
Neural Noise Created During Binocular Rivalry
Neural "noise" may cause you to miss important changes in your environment when you are concentrating on something else, new research indicates.
Research explores interactions between nanomaterials, biological systems
The recent explosion in the development of nanomaterials with enhanced performance characteristics for use in commercial and medical applications has increased the likelihood of people coming into direct contact with...
Team Detects High-Speed Hydrogen Atoms Coming From the Moon
Reflected solar particles can reveal details about the surfaces of other worlds
Some Particles Cool Climate, Others Add To Global Warming
Particles cool down the climate, but to which extent? This has remained an unanswered question for scientists. A new article in Science brings the scientific community a step closer to...
Biomass To Green Electricity
Electricity generated from cellulosic biomass is clean, cost effective, renewable, and environmentally friendly.
TMS 2010 Annual Meeting and Exhibition to Feature a Materials & Society Technical Program
With global focus intensifying on alternative and renewable energy solutions to satisfy both environmental and policy issues, presenters are being sought for the Materials and Society technical programming at The...
Chemical Safety Board Probes ConAgra Explosion
Natural gas leak may have caused recent accident that killed three, injured 40.
Tumor-suppressor Recruits Help To Overcome A Barrier And Fix Cancer-causing Defects
Like a mechanic popping the hood of a car to get at a faulty engine, a tumor-suppressing protein allows cellular repair mechanisms to pounce on damaged DNA by overcoming a...
Beetle juice proves powerful antifreeze
ROSKILDE, Denmark, June 19 (UPI) -- A powerful frost resistant made from beetle juice could prove invaluable as a de-icing coating on aircraft wings, Danish researchers said.
'Look Mom No Electricity': Transmitting Information with Chemistry
(PhysOrg.com) -- While information technology is generally thought to require electrons or photons for transmitting information, scientists have recently demonstrated a third method of transmission: chemical reactions. Based on a...
Got ear plugs? You may want to sport them on the subway and other mass transit, researchers say
June 18, 2009 -- The U.S. mass transit system, the largest in the world, provides affordable and efficient transportation to more than 33 million riders each weekday. The system is...
Argonne, UC scientists reach milestone in study of emergent magnetism
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago have reached a milestone in the study of emergent magnetism...
Chemical speed-dating even faster
Reaction-sensitive DNA amplification method simplifies screening for novel reactions
Tubules 'grown' from droplets
Since the discovery of carbon nanotubes in the early 1990s, nanotubes and nanowires have been the focus of scientific and technological interest. It has since also proved possible to produce...
A Move to Put the Union Label on Solar Power Plants
If companies commit at the outset to use union labor, they say environmental objections never materialize.
Most Efficient And Stable Source Of Pure White Light Ever Achieved
Researchers are reporting the first use of a fundamentally new approach in the quest to snare the Holy Grail of the lighting industry: An LED (light-emitting diode) -- those ultra-efficient,...
Tunnel vision: Swiss can't wait to party
ZURICH (Reuters) - Face covered with dust, a tired miner scrambles through a tiny gap linking two parts of what will be the world's longest rail tunnel, clutching a gold...
Clean Diesel Comes of Age
For decades, diesel trucks and buses have spewed large amounts of soot, smog-causing gases and carcinogens into the air. But new diesel engines are more than 90 percent cleaner than a few years...
New technology enables high-speed data transfer
GridFTP, a protocol developed by researchers at Argonne National Laboratory, has been used to transfer unprecedented amounts of data over the Department of Energy's (DOE) Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), which...
Close call at Boston as truck crosses runway
BOSTON (AP) -- Authorities say a construction truck crossed an airport runway in Boston just before a plane took off behind it....
Solar Research Team Heading to Europe for Experiments
A solar energy research team from Valparaiso University’s College of Engineering will return to Switzerland this summer to continue testing the potential of harnessing the sun’s energy for industrial applications....
Link between light touch and Merkel cells solves 100-year mystery
Light touch - the sense that lets musicians find the right notes on a keyboard, a seamstress revel in the feel of cool silk, the artisan feel a curve in...
Big impact from tiny semiconductor lasers (w/Video)
A massive European effort to develop high-brightness semiconductor lasers could transform healthcare, telecoms and display applications and make Europe an undisputed leader in the field.
World's fastest and most sensitive astronomical camera
"The performance of this breakthrough camera is without an equivalent anywhere in the world. The camera will enable great leaps forward in many areas of the study of the Universe,"...
Acrylic beads promise scalable organocatalyst production
A two-step approach to synthesising proline-containing beads for organocatalysis