Stickleback fish show initiative, personality and leadership
Researchers have shed light on the distinct, complex personalities displayed by stickleback fish.
Plants & Animals
Aug 15, 2012
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Looking for dark matter a mile underground
For the past two years, a small bubble chamber has been on the lookout for dark-matter particles a mile underground at SNOLAB in Sudbury, Ontario. Now that experiment is about to get company – its big brother is moving ...
General Physics
Aug 15, 2012
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Water plays a key role in the co-crystallization of active pharmaceutical ingredients
There is much more to drug development than simply identifying a potent active pharmaceutical ingredient (API). Scientists must ensure that the API can tolerate the production process, remain stable during storage and distribution, ...
Materials Science
Aug 15, 2012
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Nano-structures to realise hydrogen's energy potential
(Phys.org) -- For the first time, engineers at the University of New South Wales have demonstrated that hydrogen can be released and reabsorbed from a promising storage material, overcoming a major hurdle to its use as an ...
Nanomaterials
Aug 15, 2012
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Don't burn out: Enjoy your favorite products more by consuming them less frequently
Consumers enjoy products more in the long run if they don't overuse them when first purchased, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research.
Social Sciences
Aug 15, 2012
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New super-resolution microscope to be built at UH
A new microscope to be built at the University of Houston (UH) will give scientists a better way to study the chemical properties of an array of surfaces, running the gamut from plastics and metals to cells and water. Researchers ...
Nanophysics
Aug 15, 2012
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Scientists identify previously unknown Whimbrel migration pathway over open Atlantic Ocean
(Phys.org) -- Scientists at the College of William & Mary/Virginia Commonwealth University Center for Conservation Biology (CCB) at the VCU Rice Center have tracked three whimbrels off the east coast of Canada to the northern ...
Ecology
Aug 15, 2012
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3Qs: How much 'faster, higher, stronger' can Olympic athletes get?
The United States won more hardware in the 2012 London Olympics than any other country, amassing 104 medals in some 300 events. But competitors as a whole were perhaps even more impressive, setting ...
Other
Aug 15, 2012
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MSU prof helps devise method of removing phosphorous from wastewater
(Phys.org) -- A professor at Michigan State University is part of a team developing a new method of removing phosphorous from our wastewater – a problem seriously affecting lakes and streams across the country.
Environment
Aug 15, 2012
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Transistors made from graphene nanoribbons make efficient magnetic field sensors
Graphene — a single layer of carbon atoms packed in a hexagonal lattice — has a number of appealing properties owing to its two-dimensional geometry. It has, for one thing, good electrical conductivity that is of ...
Nanomaterials
Aug 15, 2012
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