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Magnetic switching under pressure

(PhysOrg.com) -- A material’s properties are a critical factor in the way that material can be used for practical applications. Magnetism is one such property, and magnetic switches are key components ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 03, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

University chemists devise means to stabilize explosive CL-20

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Michigan colleagues Adam Matzger and Onas Bolto have devised a means for making the transport and use of the highly explosive material CL-20 more stable. They describe in their ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Sep 09, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

DNA origami puts a smart lid on solid-state nanopore sensors

The latest advance in solid-state nanopore sensors – devices that are made with standard tools of the semiconductor industry yet can offer single-molecule sensitivity for label-free protein screening ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Last entry for Encyclopaedia Britannica book form

Hours after Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. announced it will stop publishing print editions of its flagship encyclopedia for the first time in more than 200 years, someone among the editing minions of free ...

Technology / Internet

created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Chemists cram two million nanorods into single cancer cell

(PhysOrg.com) -- Rice University chemists have found a way to load more than 2 million tiny gold particles called nanorods into a single cancer cell. The breakthrough could speed development of cancer treatments ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Threatened by iPad, PCs start to look like tablets

The response by computer makers to the iPad stealing sales from them: Make their PCs more like iPads.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jul 19, 2011 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (7) | comments 15

Researchers use neutrons to spy on the elusive hydronium ion

A Los Alamos National Laboratory research team has harnessed neutrons to view for the first time the critical role that an elusive molecule plays in certain biological reactions. The effort could aid in treatment of peptic ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Aug 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover a new class of highly electronegative chemical species

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of researchers has discovered a new class of highly electronegative chemical species called hyperhalogens, which use superhalogens as building blocks around a metal atom. The new chemical ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 08, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

IPad subscriptions could boost mag circulation

(AP) -- Magazine publishers may have a new way to boost flagging circulation: the iPad.

Technology / Internet

created Mar 16, 2010 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

New revenue model elusive for US papers: study

US newspapers are searching for a new revenue model in an era of falling circulation, declining print advertising dollars and free online competition.

Technology / Business

created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 13

Bismuth nanoparticles provide high fidelity images of breast tumors

By combining a nanoparticle that is readily visible in X-ray computed tomography (CT) scans with a molecule that targets tumor lymph vessels and other tumor tissues, a research team from the University of California, San ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Wall Street Journal to charge for mobile access from Oct 24

The Wall Street Journal announced on Thursday that it will begin charging for access to the newspaper on mobile devices such as the Blackberry or Apple iPhone from October 24.

Technology / Internet

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Britannica's halt of print edition triggers sales

(AP) -- It turns out all Encyclopaedia Britannica had to do to breathe new life into the sale of its print edition was to kill it.

Technology / Business

created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Newspapers erect pay walls in hunt for new revenue

(AP) -- Newspapers are returning to a business strategy that served them well in the heyday of street-corner newsboys shouting the front-page news. They're enticing people with a little free online content before asking ...

Technology / Internet

created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Income slashed, web traffic falls when paper goes online-only

Researchers from City University London have found that at least 75 percent of revenue can be lost and web traffic can actually fall when a newspaper moves from print and web to web-only.

Other Sciences / Other

created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 6