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Psychiatry: When The Mirror Becomes An Enemy
A nose that's too big, hair that's too curly or a beauty mark in the wrong place -- who hasn't focused on a small detail of their appearance while staring...
Particle smasher begins Big Bang experiment
Scientists around the world celebrate the tests at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva. 'We will be unlocking the secrets of the universe,' one physicist says. ...
Tracking Down The Menace In Mexico City Smog
Chemical scientists have shown that, bad as the traffic is, the most harmful air pollution in Mexico City may not come from burning fossil fuels. Instead the culprit may be...
Hotline To The Cowshed
A wireless measuring system, consisting of sensors and transmission units, helps to keep livestock healthier with a minimum use of resources.
Bottoms Up: Better Organic Semiconductors For Printable Electronics
Researchers have learned how to tweak a new class of polymer-based semiconductors to better control the location and alignment of the components of the blend. Their recent results could enable...
Nanoscale Droplets With Cancer-fighting Implications Created
Scientists have succeeded in making unique nanoscale droplets that are much smaller than a human cell and can potentially be used to deliver pharmaceuticals.
Colorful bacteria could spot oil spills: scientist
LONDON (Reuters) - A new technique using bacteria that lights up so it is easy to spot could help better detect pollution from oil spills and other environmental leakage, researchers...
Switchable Bio-adhesion
Researchers have developed a new type of property-changing polymer: it is water-repellent at 37 C, which makes it an ideal culture substrate for biological cells. At room temperature it attracts...
Carbon Molecule With A Charge Could Be Tomorrow's Semiconductor
As part of the research to place gadolinium atoms inside the carbon cage of a fullerene molecule for MRI applications, researchers created an 80-atom carbon molecule with two yttrium ions...
Berlin Getting Charge Out Of Electric Cars
German carmaker Daimler AG and utility RWE AG said they would begin a joint electric car and charging station test project in the German capital, called "E-Mobility Berlin."
60,000 Computers Primed For Big Bang Probe
When scientists fire up the biggest physics experiment in history, they will face a task that makes finding a needle in a haystack look simple. Success in this $10 billion...
Lighting research center develops framework for assessing light pollution
The emergence of electric lighting at night nearly a century ago has positively affected countless aspects of human life, ranging from improved safety and security to stronger economic development. But...
Future nanoelectronics may face obstacles
(PhysOrg.com) -- Combining ordinary electronics with light has been a potential way to create minimal computer circuits with super fast information transfer. Researchers at Umeå University in Sweden and the...
US Air Force Technology Helps Scientists Understand Plant Root Function
Scientists have developed a non-invasive technique that uses thermal neutron attenuation to measure spatial and temporal distribution of water in soils. The study focuses on the McClellan Nuclear Radiation Center...
Scientists Await Start-up Of Large Hadron Collider
The moment that James Pilcher has been waiting for since 1994 will arrive at 1:30 a.m. CDT on Wednesday, Sept. 10, when the world's largest scientific instrument is scheduled to...
How Small is Too Small? Researchers Find that Polarization Changes at the Nanoscale
(PhysOrg.com) -- How small is too small to be useful? Researchers at North Carolina State University have done nanoscale analysis on ferroelectric thin films - materials that are...
HP Breaks the 24-hour Battery Life Barrier
HP today announced an unprecedented milestone in mobile computing: up to 24 hours of continuous notebook operation on a single battery charge.
NXP introduces world's first fully integrated HDMI 1.3 Interface Conditioning chips
NXP Semiconductors, the independent company founded by Philips, today announced the industry`s first fully integrated Interface Conditioning chips for the HDMI 1.3 port.
'Omnivorous engine' hopes to run on many fuels
(PhysOrg.com) -- The 'omnivorous engine' is no picky eater. Gasoline? Down the hatch. Ethanol? Butanol? It'll slurp those up too. The creators of the omnivorous engine, engineers at the U.S....
Intel Introduces Solid-State Drives for Notebook and Desktop Computers
Intel Corporation announced today it has begun shipping Intel X18-M and X25-M Mainstream SATA Solid-State Drives (SSDs) based on multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash technology for laptop and desktop computers....
Nanoscopic Golden Rods
Scientists have now developed a new method for the production of nanoscopic gold rods. In contrast to previous methods, they have achieved this without the use of cytotoxic additives, using...
CERN Prepares New Atom Smasher to Near Big Bang
The most powerful atom-smasher ever built comes online Wednesday.
'Smart water' may help boost production from oil wells by 60 percent
Researchers in Norway report that injecting a special type of seawater called "smart water" into certain low-yield oil wells may help boost oil extraction by as much as 60 percent....
Could graphene replace superconductors?
(PhysOrg.com) -- “People want a faster computer chip,” Philip Kim tells PhysOrg.com. “And it needs to be smaller. But in order to increase the speed of the chip, or to...
Comets Throw Light On Solar System's Beginnings
The early solar system is commonly believed to have been formed from a cold outer region and a hot inner region, which did not exchange material. But the comet Wild-2...
Smoke Smudges Mexico City's Air, Chemists Identify Sources
Mexico City once topped lists of places with the worst air pollution in the world. Although efforts to curb emissions have improved the situation, tiny particles called aerosols still clog...
Drilling for Hot Rocks: Google Sinks Cash into Advanced Geothermal Technology
For $1 billion over the next 40 years, the U.S. could develop 100 gigawatts (a gigawatt equals one billion watts) of electricity generation that emits no air pollution and pumps...
Moo North: Cattle and Deer May Sense Earth's Magnetic Field
Forget cow tipping--next time you want to mess with a bovine friend, try waving a magnet in its face. [More]