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Smallest known transiting planet discovered
Finding could help to understand composition and structure of planets beyond the solar system that could have structures like Earth’s
Vision Explained: Scientists Finally Capture Elusive Signaling Device Our Retinas Use To Tell Us What We See
Scientists have known for more than 200 years that vision begins with a series of chemical reactions when light strikes the retina, but the specific processes have been a mystery....
Wireless at WARP speed
Nothing kills innovation like having to reinvent the wheel. Imagine how dull your diet would be if you had to build a new stove and hammer out a few cooking...
Tom Cruise smile comes with a sunburn price
UV light-enhanced tooth bleaching is not only a con, but is dangerous to your eyes and skin, says a Royal Society of Chemistry journal. The light treatment gives absolutely no...
Domain walls that conduct electricity
The logic and memory functions of future electronic devices could shrink dramatically - to one or two nanometres (billionths of a metre) instead of the many tens of nanometres that...
Chemical Gives Locusts A Jekyll-Hyde Jolt
A chemical that affects people's moods also can transform easygoing desert locusts into terrifying swarms that ravage the countryside, scientists report.
Fingerprints: More Than Just Finger Decoration
Nature has reported on recent research that suggests that fingerprints help to amplify nerve inputs at the fingertips. The spacing and distance of fingerprint ridges can selectively amplify certain...
Quantum Divorce: When Particle Entanglement Doesn't Work Out
It sounds like a tiebreaker round in a mixed martial arts bout: entanglement sudden death, or ESD. In actuality it is a mysterious phenomenon by which entangled quantum objects--two electrons,...
Water lilies inspire scientists to create large-scale graphene films
In the world of nanomaterials, scientists and engineers can create new structures with tiny building blocks as small as one billionth of a metre...
Enzyme with a sugar antenna
More than half of all human proteins, as well as many important pharmaceutical agents, are glycoproteins, which means that they contain sugar components. In general, natural glycoproteins do not have...
Capture Of Nanomagnetic 'Fingerprints' A Boost For Next-generation Information Storage Media
A technique of capturing the magnetic "fingerprints" of magnetic nanostructures -- even when they are buried within the boards and junctions of an electronic device -- has been developed. The...
'Magic' lights to slash household electricity use
A new way of making LEDs could see household lighting bills reduced by up to 75% in five years time, thanks to research at Cambridge University. read more
Stem Cell Research: The Quest Resumes
"After eight years of political ostracism, stem-cell scientists like Harvard's Douglas Melton are coming back into the light — and making discoveries that may soon bring lifesaving breakthroughs.Scientific inspiration can come from...
Football Players Are Not The Only Ones Who Get Hurt On Super Bowl Sunday
You're cheering on your favorite team in the Big Game, but the next minute you are choking on a chicken wing. It turns out injuries are not limited to the...
Calif. weighs tough TV energy standards
(AP) -- Visit any electronics store and it's clear that flat-screen TVs are among their best sellers - and that they hope consumers continue a years-long tradition of upgrading...
Watching Catalytic Reactions from Within
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Utrecht University, in The Netherlands, have demonstrated a new way to get a real-time, microscopic view of the inner workings of catalytic reactions.
Novel Technology Could Produce Biofuel for Around $0.65 a Liter
(PhysOrg.com) -- A novel technology for synthesising chemicals from plant material could produce liquid fuel for just over €0.50 ($0.65) a liter, say German scientists. But only if the infrastructure...
Heating from carbon dioxide will increase five-fold over next millennia
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Liverpool have found that heating from carbon dioxide will increase five-fold over the next millennia.
Report: Use 'brownfields' as energy parks
Northwest Michigan could generate hundreds of new jobs and generate enough electricity for thousands of its residents by converting abandoned factories and other brownfield sites for renewable energy production.
A supercharged metal-ion generator: Higher-quality coatings through 'runaway' self-sputtering
In the electronics industry, thin metal films are deposited on silicon wafers with a sputter gun, which uses energetic ions - atoms with a positive charge - to knock the...
The Power of Light: Moving Macroscopic Amounts of Matter
(PhysOrg.com) -- Since 1970, scientists have been working with “optical tweezers” - lasers that move microscopic amounts of matter using forces originating from the light matter interaction. Now, for the...
Scientists Create Functioning Artificial Nerve Networks
Weizmann Institute scientists have created circuits and logic gates made of live nerves grown in the lab.
Study: Gold hardens in intense heat
TORONTO, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- University of Toronto scientists say they have discovered gold becomes harder when subjected to intense heat.
Field of neurotech spawns brainy businesses
The rapidly growing field of neurotechnology is becoming a boon for existing businesses while generating startup ventures. With the aim of grooming the sector's future leaders, MIT has created a...
Beam Me Up, Ytterbium
The shambling, shuffling, marathon march towards making a quantum computer has just skipped ahead a few steps with the first successful transference of information between two particles of matter. While...
China must rethink wind power policies
China could make great use of wind power but they need to get their policies right, says an editorial in Nature.
Changes needed to medical isotope production, scientist says
A research scientist at Canada's national particle and nuclear physics lab is calling on the Canadian government to look into ways of delivering radioactive medical isotopes without the need for...
New car tech: Not just crash protection, but prevention
A car that can brake itself to avoid a fender-bender during the morning commute might seem far into the future. Except it goes on sale in March. That's when City...