Refrigerators and other cooling devices may one day lose their compressors and coils of piping and become solid state, according to Penn State researchers who are investigating electrically induced heat effects of some ferroelectric ...
General Physics
Aug 7, 2008
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Prevailing theoretical models attempting to explain the formation of the solar system have assumed it to be average in every way. Now a new study by Northwestern University astronomers, using recent data from the 300 exoplanets ...
Astronomy
Aug 7, 2008
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In chemistry as in life, threesomes are not known to break up neatly. And while open-minded thinkers have insisted that clean three-way splits do happen, nobody had actually witnessed one – until now.
Aug 7, 2008
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Arizona State University researchers have made a breakthrough in understanding the effect on climate change of a key component of urban pollution. The discovery could lead to more accurate forecasting of possible global-warming ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 7, 2008
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Fingerprints can reveal critical evidence, as well as an identity, with the use of a new technology developed at Purdue University that detects trace amounts of explosives, drugs or other materials left behind in the prints.
Aug 7, 2008
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Climate models have long predicted that global warming will increase the intensity of extreme precipitation events. A new study conducted at the University of Miami and the University of Reading (U.K.) provides the first ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 7, 2008
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As the Arctic Ocean warms this century, shellfish, snails and other animals from the Pacific Ocean will resume an invasion of the northern Atlantic that was interrupted by cooling conditions three million years ago, predict ...
Aug 7, 2008
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A newly discovered function for a hormone in melons suggests it plays a role in how sexual systems evolve in plants. The study, conducted by French and American scientists, appears in the latest issue of the journal Science.
Aug 7, 2008
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(PhysOrg.com) -- "Ye canna change the laws of physics!" Scotty warned Captain Kirk on Star Trek. But engineers and physicists at the University of Maryland may rewrite one of them.
General Physics
Aug 7, 2008
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"Big things come in small packages," the saying goes, and it couldn't be more true when discussing the mouse. This little creature has become a crucial part of human history through its contributions in understanding human ...
Aug 7, 2008
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