The Ohio State University
New solar energy material captures every color of the rainbow
Researchers have created a new material that overcomes two of the major obstacles to solar power: it absorbs all the energy contained in sunlight, and generates electrons in a way that makes them easier to capture.
Oct 16, 2008 |
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Scientists are high on idea that marijuana reduces memory impairment
The more research they do, the more evidence Ohio State University scientists find that specific elements of marijuana can be good for the aging brain by reducing inflammation there and possibly even stimulating the formation ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 19, 2008 |
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Material may help autos turn heat into electricity
Researchers have invented a new material that will make cars even more efficient, by converting heat wasted through engine exhaust into electricity. In the current issue of the journal Science, they describe a material with t ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 24, 2008 |
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Black raspberries slow cancer by altering hundreds of genes
New research strongly suggests that a mix of preventative agents, such as those found in concentrated black raspberries, may more effectively inhibit cancer development than single agents aimed at shutting down a particular ...
Aug 27, 2008 |
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A better way to make hydrogen from biofuels
Researchers here have found a way to convert ethanol and other biofuels into hydrogen very efficiently. A new catalyst makes hydrogen from ethanol with 90 percent yield, at a workable temperature, and using inexpensive ingredients.
Aug 20, 2008 |
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Narcissistic people most likely to emerge as leaders
When a group is without a leader, you can often count on a narcissist to take charge, a new study suggests. Researchers found that people who score high in narcissism tend to take control of leaderless groups. Narcissism ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 07, 2008 |
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Students who use 'clickers' score better on physics tests
Hand-held electronic devices called clickers are helping college students learn physics, according to a series of research studies.
Jul 17, 2008 |
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Earliest Animal Footprints Ever Found -- Discovered in Nevada
The fossilized trail of an aquatic creature suggests that animals walked using legs at least 30 million years earlier than had been thought. The tracks -- two parallel rows of small dots, each about 2 millimeters ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 05, 2008 |
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Small glaciers -- not large -- account for most of Greenland's recent loss of ice, study shows
(PhysOrg.com) -- The recent dramatic melting and breakup of a few huge Greenland glaciers have fueled public concerns over the impact of global climate change, but that isn't the island's biggest problem.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 15, 2008 |
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Researchers discover how key enzyme repairs sun-damaged DNA
Researchers have long known that humans lack a key enzyme -- one possessed by most of the animal kingdom and even plants -- that reverses severe sun damage.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 25, 2010 |
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Study examines the psychology behind students who don't cheat
While many studies have examined cheating among college students, new research looks at the issue from a different perspective – identifying students who are least likely to cheat.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 17, 2008 |
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Missing Radioactivity in Ice Cores Bodes Ill for Part of Asia
When Ohio State glaciologists failed to find the expected radioactive signals in the latest core they drilled from a Himalayan ice field, they knew it meant trouble for their research.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 18, 2008 |
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A new way to make lighter, stronger steel -- in a flash
A Detroit entrepreneur surprised university engineers here recently, when he invented a heat-treatment that makes steel 7 percent stronger than any steel on record – in less than 10 seconds.
Jun 09, 2011 |
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Transparent Semiconductors May Be Future of Flat Panel Display Industry
Some types of “amorphous oxide” transparent semiconductors originally developed in the College of Engineering at Oregon State University may form the basis for the next generation of flat panel displays, providing better ...
Jul 11, 2008 |
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Researchers successfully test new alternative to traditional semiconductors
Researchers at Ohio State University have demonstrated the first plastic computer memory device that utilizes the spin of electrons to read and write data.
Aug 09, 2010 |
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