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Study: Ripe bananas look blue in UV light
INNSBRUUCK, Austria, Oct. 22 (UPI) -- An Austrian-led team of scientist has discovered ripe yellow bananas glow an intense blue when viewed under ultraviolet light.
'Bonnie' of ID theft pair sentenced to 5 years in prison for role in scam
Jocelyn S. Kirsch - half of Philadelphia's infamous pair of identity-theft scammers known as "Bonnie and Clyde" - was sentenced yesterday to five years in prison by a judge who...
Feel The Light: OLED With Touch Function
Organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) are one of the most promising lighting technology for future lighting solutions. The OLED technology is the first real area light source technology in history. It...
Spallation Neutron Source Sends First Neutrons To 'Big Bang' Beam Line
New analytical tools coming on line at the Spallation Neutron Source, the Department of Energy's state-of-the-art neutron science facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, include a beam line dedicated to...
Hands-free chat while driving just as dangerous: study
Hands-free wireless devices are rarely safer than their hand-held counterparts when it comes to driving and talking on the phone at the same time, a new study suggests.
Volcanoes may have provided sparks and chemistry for first life
The Bada Lab at Scripps holds the original samples used by Stanley Miller to study the origins of life. Lightning and gases from volcanic eruptions could have given rise to...
CERN says atom smasher back in action in spring
GENEVA (AP) -- Damage to the world's largest atom smasher caused by a bad electrical connection will take much of the planned winter shutdown to repair,...
Clean Energy from Biomass Shows Promise
Michigan's forest industry produces thousands of jobs and hundreds of thousands of tons of unused residues each year. Why not use that woody material to help generate clean electric power?
'Stamping' self-assembling nanowires
(PhysOrg.com) -- By manipulating the way tiny droplets of fluid dry, Cornell researchers have created an innovative way to make and pattern nanoscale wires and other devices that ordinarily can...
Ford expands use of biomaterials to cut foreign oil need
Deep inside the laboratories of Ford Motor Co.'s research and innovation center, one lab feels a lot more like a witch's pantry than a place for developing the green cars...
"Buckypaper" Hype Could Soon Be Reality
It's called "buckypaper" and looks a lot like ordinary carbon paper, but don't be fooled by the cute name or flimsy appearance. It could revolutionize the way everything from airplanes...
Microfluidics joins fight against bioweapon
A new bead-based sensor can detect trace levels of a lethal neurotoxin
LHC report confirms electrical fault
Machine engineers expect to begin lifting out magnets for repairs in the next few weeks
New lab security report may signal need for pause
(AP) -- Another frightening new government report is heightening fears about the safety of U.S. biodefense laboratories that study some of the world's deadliest germs. The latest worry: Intruders...
White space backers see new devices in a year
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Opening unused U.S. television channels to wireless devices, an idea endorsed by communications regulators this week, could spark development of faster devices with features such as high-definition...
Samsung Demonstrates First Color Carbon Nanotube-Based Electrophoretic Display
Unidym, Inc., a majority-owned subsidiary of Arrowhead Research Corporation, announced today that Samsung Electronics is demonstrating the world`s first carbon nanotube-based color active matrix electrophoretic display (EPD) e-paper at the...
Geothermal Energy Gathering Steam
An unusual combination of economic and environmental forces have created a "perfect storm" that could help geothermal shed its back-seat status to its renewable cousins wind and solar energy.
Recycling Baseball Memories, As Scrap
Almost all of Detoit's Tiger Stadium is being recycled. More than 11.4 million pounds of steel and almost 17.4 million pounds of concrete and other debris may be turning up...
Beijing Bans Cars In High Pollution Days
Beijing will ban half of its 3.4 million cars from the roads during periods of very heavy pollution.
Amish Look To The Sun For Power
The Amish look to the heavens for modern earth-friendly technology: solar power. This "green" approach keeps them off the grid and well within their traditional guidelines.
Scientists control proteins using light
STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Oct. 16 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they have learned how to use light to control certain proteins that catalyze biochemical reactions.
Intel Ships Enterprise-Class Solid-State Drives
Intel Corp. has begun shipping its highest- performing solid-state drive (SSD), the Intel X-25E Extreme SATA Solid-State Drive, aimed at server, workstation and storage systems. Unlike mechanical drives, the SSDs...
Invisibility Cloak And Ultra-powerful Microscopes: New Research Field Promises Radical Advances In Optical Technologies
A new research field called transformation optics may usher in a host of radical advances including a cloak of invisibility and ultra-powerful microscopes and computers by harnessing nanotechnology and "metamaterials."
Duke innovations improve accuracy of MRI as internal 'thermometer'
Duke University chemists say they have developed a new way to measure temperature changes inside the body with unprecedented precision by correcting a subtle error in the original theory underlying...
The Bond Breaker
Why are there so many diseases and so few cures? It’s not just that medicine moves slowly; chemistry holds us back, too. To build drugs, chemists start with a base...
The Atomic Visionary
You’d think cracking a 20-year-old physics mystery would require equal parts ego and genius. But physicist Ali Yazdani, who recently overturned the accepted thinking on high-temperature superconductors, swears he’s not...
The Materialist
Earlier this year, Francesco Stellacci announced that his group had developed a material that can suck 20 times its weight in oil out of a sample of water. The material...
'Big Bang machine' glitch was electrical fault
The technical problem that forced the shut-down of a huge particle collider built to probe the origins of the universe was a faulty electrical connection between two of the accelerator's...