300 years of list-making
Personal inventories spanning three centuries are helping researchers unlock the mysteries of how economies edge towards growth and prosperity.
Personal inventories spanning three centuries are helping researchers unlock the mysteries of how economies edge towards growth and prosperity.
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May 23, 2011
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In laboratories at MIT and around the world, scientists are deciphering the molecular structures of proteins involved in Alzheimers and Parkinsons diseases, diabetes, and many other disorders. Much of that research ...
Analytical Chemistry
May 23, 2011
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If Jocelyne DiRuggiero was looking for life on Mars, she wouldnt dig in the planets red soil. Instead, shed head where you might not expect.
Space Exploration
May 23, 2011
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Scientists from Argonne National Laboratory CNM's Nanofabrication and Electronic and Magnetic Materials and Devices groups, working with users from the University of Wisconsin-Stevenson Point, discovered a fast, simple, scalable ...
Nanophysics
May 23, 2011
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Researchers at the Technion have discovered the nature of nanometer-thick layers between different materials and found that they have both solid and liquid properties. By doing so, the researchers made a crucial addition ...
Nanophysics
May 23, 2011
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(AP) -- An explosion at one of two factories that make Apple's new iPad 2 highlights the risks of a global manufacturing strategy that has cut costs but concentrates production in a few locations.
Business
May 23, 2011
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"Bring It Back," a small and inexpensive microgravity spaceflight kit, has won the do-it-yourself technology and education space competition sponsored by NASA and MAKE Magazine.
Space Exploration
May 23, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- While molecules have already been used to perform individual logic operations, scientists have now shown that a single molecule can perform 13 logic operations, some of them in parallel. The molecule, which ...
The European Union announced Monday it will launch the first two satellites in its long-delayed and hugely over-budget Galileo navigation system from French Guiana on October 20.
Space Exploration
May 23, 2011
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Electricity pylons across the British countryside may soon cease to be eyesores thanks to a government backed competition for a new design.
Energy & Green Tech
May 23, 2011
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