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New Test Makes Cheating With Drugs in Sports Easier to Detect
A new mass spectrometry test can help sports anti-drug doping officials to detect whether an athlete has used drugs that boost naturally occurring steroid levels. The test is more sensitive...
A novel X-ray source could be brightest in the world
Oscillator projected to increase current brightness by millions of times The future of high-intensity x-ray science has never been brighter now that scientists at U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne...
Air Travelers, Astronomers Stand to Benefit from Research on Atmospheric Turbulence
Anyone who frequently travels by airplane has likely experienced clear-air turbulence. It's the kind of jarring turbulence that can quickly turn a smooth flight into a bumpy ride. A grant...
New technique to optimize computer speed
Who doesn`t dream of increasingly fast computers that consume less and less energy? To design these computers of the future, it is important to be able to control nanoscale strain...
Tiny refrigerator taking shape to cool future computers
Researchers are developing a miniature refrigeration system small enough to fit inside laptops and personal computers, a cooling technology that would boost performance while shrinking the size of computers. read more
Experts find key to saving fuel: say gallons per mile
Researchers say car manufacturers should advertise the fuel efficiency of vehicles
U.S. energy lab issues accomplishment list
WASHINGTON, June 19 (UPI) -- The U.S. National Energy Technology Laboratory issued its annual accomplishments report Thursday, emphasizing fossil energy-related activities.
Exciton-based circuits eliminate a 'speed trap' between computing and communication signals
Particles called excitons that emit a flash of light as they decay could be used for a new form of computing better suited to fast communication, physicists at UC San...
Flexible design in airports essential for courting low-cost airlines
The leading low-cost airlines with a preference for small, inexpensive airports are now the largest airlines in the United States and Europe, according to an MIT expert on airport design...
Consumable Camera to Offer Intestinal Tour
Now a doctor may one day be able to manually control the location of this camera with a magnetic device the size of a chocolate bar.
Liter Of Fuel Would Last UK 1 Year If Cars Had Kept Pace With Computers
One liter of fuel would serve the UK for a year and oil reserves would last the expected lifetime of the solar system -- if efficiency in the car industry...
In Stalin's bomb lab, dreams of preservation
SUKHUMI, Georgia (Reuters) - Behind a thicket of weeds and broken window panes, one of the former Soviet Union's dark secrets is the laboratory where captured German scientists worked to...
Study: Fast protons prefer fast neutrons
STATE COLLEGE, Pa., June 19 (UPI) -- U.S. physicists say they've found fast-moving protons are much more likely to pair with fast-moving neutrons than with other protons in...
Inside the Solar Hydrogen House: No More Power Bills--Ever [News]
EAST AMWELL, N.J.--Mike Strizki has not paid an electric, oil or gas bill--nor has he spent a nickel to fill up his Mercury Sable--in nearly two years. Instead, the 51-year-old...
MIT prototype solar dish passes first tests
A team led by MIT students this week successfully tested a prototype of what may be the most cost-efficient solar power system in the world--one team members believe has the...
Liberal's carbon plan to offer $15.5B in tax cuts
Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion's new carbon tax plan calls for $11 billion in personal income tax cuts, exemptions on new taxes for aviation and diesel fuel for the first year,...
Grains And Liquids Demonstrate Similar Cohesion Effects
What if sand flowed like water? Researchers have just demonstrated that even without an attractive force between grains in flowing sand, they have a cohesion similar to that of liquids.
Cooking Under Pressure
We are proud to introduce today the first installment of our newest regular feature,Kitchen Alchemy. In it, H. Alexander Talbot and Aki Kamozawa, a husband-and-wife cooking duo and authors of...
Scientists discover way to color MRI scans
CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. scientists have developed a way to add color to medical scans known as MRIs, potentially enhancing the information and sensitivity the images provide, they said on...
Rising Diesel Prices Renew Interest In Fuel-saving Technologies For Heavy Trucks
Diesel fuel prices approaching $5 a gallon -- and the resulting economic impact on products transported by truck -- have created renewed interest in fuel-saving technologies developed during the past...
Chemists find better way to make amines
RIVERSIDE, Calif., June 18 (UPI) -- U.S. chemists say they are using a newly discovered catalyst to aid in the production of amines at low cost and with...
Trap And Zap: Harnessing The Power Of Light To Pattern Surfaces On The Nanoscale
Princeton engineers have invented an affordable technique that uses lasers and plastic beads to create the ultra-small features that are needed for new generations of microchips.
Calif., Conn., Mo. and N.J. Students Named to 2008 U.s. Chemistry Olympiad Team
Four of the nation's top high school chemistry students -- one each from California, Connecticut, Missouri and New Jersey -- have been chosen to represent the U.S. team in...
Opinion: The case for an Australian-made small second car
Australian production of very small cars for households, to be used as a second car, would make environmental good sense, believes Valerie Yule.
Solar sculpture plays with the light
A new sculpture soon to be unveiled in Cambridge, Ont., draws its energy from the sun, but emits a light pattern each evening based on public input.
Bruce Power to study building nuclear reactor in Saskatchewan
An Ontario-based nuclear power company has turned up the heat on what's been a simmering debate recently in Saskatchewan, saying it will look at the feasibility of building a reactor...
Quebec tests electric cars
Low-speed electric cars will be allowed to travel on some Quebec roads as part of a pilot project to test the environmentally friendly vehicles, the government announced Tuesday.
UB Chemist's Diligence Leads to Corrections in Scientific Press
Experiments conducted in the laboratory of University at Buffalo chemist John P. Richard were spotlighted recently in the national scientific press, including a news article in the journal Nature, because...