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U.S. awards $43M for fuel cell research
WASHINGTON, April 15 (UPI) -- The U.S. Energy Department says it will award $41.9 million through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to fund 13 fuel cell technology...
Spam's Carbon Footprint (The E-mail Not the Meat)
Spam e-mails require energy that spews carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
Fetal sleep patterns are identified
JENA, Germany, April 15 (UPI) -- German scientists say they've discovered very immature sheep fetuses can enter a dreaming sleep-like state weeks before rapid eye movements develop.
Bacon: the Other White Heat
I recently committed myself to the goal, before the weekend was out, of creating a device entirely from bacon and using it to cut a steel pan in half. My...
Life Expectancy on the Rise - Even for Quantum States
For the first time, scientists have succeeded in measuring and controlling the lifetime of quantum states with potential use in optoelectronic chips.
Court upholds firing of nuclear safety watchdog head
The former president of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission has lost her wrongful dismissal case against the federal government.
Next generation nanofilms created
With the human genome in hand, biochemists have catalogued the 3-D structures of thousands of proteins isolated from living cells. But one important class of proteins - those stuck in...
Duke physicists see the cosmos in a coffee cup
DURHAM, N.C. -- A Duke University professor and his graduate student have discovered a universal principle that unites the curious interplay of light and shadow on the surface of your...
Warp Power May Soon Add Extra Life to Your Cell Phone and iPod Batteries
Roman Lysecky, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at The University of Arizona, has been awarded a grant of more than $400,000 by the National Science Foundation to develop...
Wind turbines causing health problems, some Ont. residents say
Noise and vibrations caused by wind turbines are causing sleep disruptions and other health problems among people who live nearby, some Ontario residents say.
Window display
Just one click and the window turns into a display. At the Hannover Messe from April 20 to 24, Fraunhofer research scientists will be demonstrating light-permeable conductive coatings as the...
Scientists develop world's smallest diamond transistor
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Glasgow have developed the world`s smallest diamond transistor.
Argonne's Leadership Computing Facility Working to Get More Science Per Watt
Cooling a supercomputer consumes more electricity than is required to run the machine, even machines as powerful as the IBM Blue Gene/P--called Intrepid--at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne...
Study links heat transfer with bonding
TROY, N.Y., April 14 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've discovered a strong correlation between the speed at which heat moves between two materials and how strongly the...
Scientists hope to unlock mysteries of proteins
Proteins, the work-horse molecules necessary for virtually every human action from breathing to thinking, have proved an almost ghostly presence, daring scientists to fully grasp their structure and behavior. Now,...
Former NASA Administrator Joins UAHuntsville
The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAHuntsville) has named Michael Griffin, one of the world's leading aerospace engineers, as an eminent scholar and a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering.
Instant insight: Probing radioactive research
Microfluidic reactors could revolutionise radiopharmaceutical synthesis, according to Siemens' Arkadij Elizarov
DNA electronics a step closer
Chemical tweaks in adenine-thymine pairs change the electronic behaviour of DNA, opening the way for DNA-based circuitry
Osmium and pyridine ring together
New Diels-Alder reaction combines osmium carbene and acetonitrile to give first metallapyridinium complex
TMS Signs Memorandum of Understanding with Brazilian Society
The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) continued its global mission by signing a Memorandum of Understanding with the Associacao Brasileira de Metalurgia, Materiais e Mineracao (ABM) during a special...
Researchers Develop World's First Flying Microrobot For Microscale Applications
A Canadian engineering research team has developed the world's first flying microrobot capable of manipulating objects for microscale applications. The microrobot discovery provides researchers with more control over the microscale...
Nano Changes Rise To Macro Importance In A Key Electronics Material
By combining the results of a number of powerful techniques for studying material structure at the nanoscale, researchers believe they have settled a long-standing debate over the source of the...
In teeth, more cracks are better than one
Small, extending tufts may give tooth enamel its strength
Southampton to sail with Solar Splash in international competition
An academic and a team of post graduate students at the University of Southampton are making final preparations to their solar-powered boat ahead of a major engineering competition. Solar Splash,...
Physicists engineer the picture-perfect classical atom
Picture the textbook atom. It would resemble a miniature solar system - an atomic nucleus orbited by electrons, drawn in nice tidy elliptical orbits - like planets orbiting the Sun....
Researchers Increase Efficiency Of Photocatalysts Used In Cancer Treatments
Researchers in Spain have found porous polymeric materials that increase the efficiency of traditional photocatalysts in the treatment of cancer. Photodynamic therapy consists of introducing photocatalysts into tumour cells in...
Pavement Sealcoat A Source Of Toxins In Stormwater Runoff
Driveways and parking lots may look better with a layer of sealcoat applied to the pavement, but the water running off the surface into nearby streams will be carrying more...
Researchers Explore Magnetic Properties of Iron-Based Superconductors
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory have proposed theoretical models to explain the normal magnetic properties in iron-based superconductors. This research was published in the December 21, 2008...