If you have stopped at a gas station recently, there is a good chance your auto has consumed fuel with ethanol blended into it. Yet the price of gasoline is not substantially affected by the volume of its ethanol content, ...
Energy & Green Tech
Oct 10, 2013
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While the air pressure in a wheel and the blood pressure inside a human body can precisely be measured, it is still a challenge to measure the pressure inside microscopic objects such as cells in our bodies.
Soft Matter
Oct 10, 2013
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(Phys.org) —After analyzing hundreds of interactions between cancer drugs and cancer cells using information theory and advanced modeling techniques, Harvard Medical School researchers have found that a standard model for ...
Biochemistry
Oct 10, 2013
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During the past decades the findings of scientific ocean drilling expeditions have fundamentally changed the way we look at our blue planet. Today we have a much better grasp of how processes like earthquakes and tsunamis ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 10, 2013
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(Phys.org) —How will regions around the world adapt to an increase in sea levels? A project looking at how Venice can manage its rising waters is a remarkable case study for flood-prone environments elsewhere.
Environment
Oct 10, 2013
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Researchers at ICMS (Institute for Complex Molecular Systems, Eindhoven University of Technology) have developed a new model that allows better control of self-assembly, the process through which molecules aggregate by themselves ...
Materials Science
Oct 10, 2013
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(Phys.org) —A company in Japan has an interesting answer to what might be a next step in touchscreens. In fact, its approach may change our concept of a screen, with the company's concept of floating-image displays that ...
Graphene emerges as a versatile new surface to assemble model cell membranes mimicking those in the human body, with potential for applications in sensors for understanding biological processes, disease detection and drug ...
Nanophysics
Oct 10, 2013
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Minamata was the site of Japan's worst ever industrial poisoning and is regarded as the dark side of Japan's rapid modernisation during the 20th Century.
Environment
Oct 10, 2013
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T-Mobile is eliminating fees for using data and texting services in more than 100 countries and capping charges for international voice calls.
Telecom
Oct 10, 2013
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