Tougher than a bullet-proof vest yet synonymous with beauty and luxury, silk fibers are a masterpiece of nature whose remarkable properties have yet to be fully replicated in the laboratory.
Materials Science
Jul 29, 2010
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Urban design is making us fat and needs to work harder to be healthier, warns a leading academic.
Social Sciences
Jul 29, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In its six-and-a-half years on Mars, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity had never seen a dust devil before this month, despite some systematic searches in past years and the fact that its twin rover, ...
Space Exploration
Jul 29, 2010
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The sprawling, congested city of London speeds towards a greener, nimbler future Friday with the launch of a new bike hire scheme aimed at kick-starting a cycling revolution ahead of the 2012 Olympics.
Environment
Jul 29, 2010
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A new way of analyzing grids of numbers known as matrices could improve signal-processing applications and data-compression schemes.
Mathematics
Jul 29, 2010
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Increasing the ratio of black carbon to sulfate in the atmosphere increases climate warming, suggests a study conducted by a University of Iowa professor and his colleagues and published in the July 25 issue of the journal ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 29, 2010
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Regarded as a possible replacement for silicon-based semiconductors, graphene, a sheet of pure carbon, has been discovered to have an uncommon and astonishing property that might make it better matched for future electronic ...
Nanomaterials
Jul 29, 2010
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You know that feeling -- your stomach is in your throat -- when you're on a roller coaster and the car takes that first big plunge?
Other
Jul 29, 2010
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In 1824, three years before he began to publish his famous "double elephant folio" The Birds of America, John James Audubon (1785-1851), the eminent artist of American birds and animals, created a drawing of a running grouse ...
Other
Jul 29, 2010
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What researchers might call "white graphene" may be the perfect sidekick for the real thing as a new era unfolds in nanoscale electronics.
Nanomaterials
Jul 29, 2010
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