(Phys.org) —Deep in water-filled underground caves beneath Australia's Nullarbor Plain, cave divers have discovered unusual 'curtains' of biological material – known as Nullarbor cave slimes.

Biology - Ecology

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In a recent study, fuel cell expert Ulf Bossel explains that a hydrogen economy is a wasteful economy. The large amount of energy required to isolate hydrogen from natural compounds (water, natural gas, biomass), ...

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

Dec 11, 2006 4.1 / 5 (448) 13

Various forms of ice have been found in many locations within the frigid reaches of our galaxy, from interstellar clouds to comets, moons, and planets. But a particularly intriguing and rare type, “ferroelectric” ...

Physics - General Physics

Nov 27, 2006 4.5 / 5 (85) 0

Despite the potential of superconductor-based electronics to significantly impact the electronics industry – for example, a superconducting computer chip is a thousand times faster than the one within the ...

Physics - General Physics

Nov 06, 2006 4.3 / 5 (62) 1

In one of the early discoveries of the current "silicon electrophotonics era," scientists from Hitachi, Ltd. in Tokyo have built a light-emitting transistor (LET) that transfers, detects and controls an electrical ...

Physics - General Physics

Nov 01, 2006 4.5 / 5 (107) 0

Building upon recent studies on optomechanical entanglement with lasers and mirrors, a group of scientists has developed a theoretical model using entanglement swapping in order to entangle two micromechanical ...

Physics - General Physics

Oct 24, 2006 4.8 / 5 (117) 0

A tiny flaw has caught the attention of physicists: the Standard Model (SM) predicts that the B meson mixing phase should be measured at nearly the same result using two different classes of decay modes. However, ...

Physics - General Physics

Oct 11, 2006 4.7 / 5 (144) 0

With a variation on the famous double-slit experiment of quantum mechanics, scientists Yves Couder and Emmanuel Fort from the University of Paris 7 are rewriting the textbooks. Their accomplishment, however, ...

Physics - General Physics

Sep 28, 2006 4.7 / 5 (148) 1

Two researchers from The College of Judea and Samaria in Israel have designed an ink-jet printer head that could lead to printers capable of chugging out 1,000 pages per minute – or even more.

Physics - General Physics

Sep 21, 2006 3.9 / 5 (157) 1

What's best for the individual and what's best for society are often not the same thing--this predicament is the premise for the famous "prisoner's dilemma" game. However, healthy societies depend on individuals ...

Physics - General Physics

Sep 20, 2006 4.1 / 5 (51) 0

On a stormy April day in 1995, the RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 was sailing in the North Atlantic when the ocean liner dipped into a "hole in the sea." Out of the darkness, a towering 95-foot wave threatened to crash ...

Physics - General Physics

Sep 13, 2006 4.5 / 5 (156) 0

There are few scientific concepts as intriguing and mysterious as dark energy and dark matter, said to make up as much as 95 percent of all the energy and matter in the universe. And even though scientists ...

Physics - General Physics

Sep 11, 2006 4.6 / 5 (245) 4

LCDs (liquid crystal displays) provide a popular method for lighting screens on everything from computers and TVs to watches, clocks, cell phones and more. However, as scientists Sang Hoon Kim, Joo-Do Park ...

Nanotechnology - Nanophysics

Sep 06, 2006 4.2 / 5 (115) 0

Matteo Viel, a research fellow at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge, England, believes that particle physics and cosmology could be more compatible as scientists work toward understanding the origins ...

Physics - General Physics

Sep 01, 2006 4.3 / 5 (54) 0

Call it a sixth sense, or evolution’s gift to these cold-blooded reptiles: some snakes have infrared vision. Also called “heat vision,” the infrared rays, which have longer wavelengths than those of visible ...

Physics - General Physics

Aug 31, 2006 4.4 / 5 (72) 0