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Controlling silicon evaporation allows scientists to boost graphene quality

Scientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology have for the first time provided details of their "confinement controlled sublimation" technique for growing high-quality layers of epitaxial graphene on ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Graphene: New electronics material closer to commercial reality

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have developed a method for creating single-crystal arrays of a material called graphene, an advance that opens up the possibility of a replacement for silicon in high-performance ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 26, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Graphene organic photovoltaics, or, will joggers' t-shirts someday power their cell phones?

A University of Southern California team has produced flexible transparent carbon atom films that the researchers say have great potential for a new breed of solar cells.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 23, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Plastic laser detects tiny amounts of explosives

(PhysOrg.com) -- Detecting hidden explosives is a difficult task but now researchers in the UK have developed a completely new way of detecting them, with a laser sensor capable of detecting molecules of explosives ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jun 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Technology breakthrough fuels laptops and phones, recharges scientist's 60-year career

How does a scientist fuel his enthusiasm for chemistry after 60 years? By discovering a new energy source, of course.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 17, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (21) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Spacecraft flew through 'snowstorm' on encounter with comet Hartley 2

On its recent trip by comet Hartley 2, the Deep Impact spacecraft took the first pictures of, and flew through, a storm of fluffy particles of water ice being spewed out by carbon dioxide jets coming from ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 18, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Carbon dioxide controls Earth's temperature

(PhysOrg.com) -- Water vapor and clouds are the major contributors to Earth's greenhouse effect, but a new atmosphere-ocean climate modeling study shows that the planet's temperature ultimately depends on ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 14, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (52) | comments 327 | with audio podcast

Stratospheric Water Vapor is a Global Warming Wild Card

A 10 percent drop in water vapor ten miles above Earth’s surface has had a big impact on global warming, say researchers in a study published online January 28 in the journal Science. The findings might help e ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 28, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (21) | comments 29 | with audio podcast

Trees invading warming Arctic will cause warming over entire region, study shows

(PhysOrg.com) -- Contrary to scientists' predictions that, as the Earth warms, the movement of trees into the Arctic will have only a local warming effect, University of California, Berkeley, scientists modeling ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 12, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (27) | comments 47 | with audio podcast

Global warming likely to be amplified by slow changes to Earth systems

Researchers studying a period of high carbon dioxide levels and warm climate several million years ago have concluded that slow changes such as melting ice sheets amplified the initial warming caused by greenhouse ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 20, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (49) | comments 59

Climate models confirm more moisture in atmosphere attributed to humans

(PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to using climate models to assess the causes of the increased amount of moisture in the atmosphere, it doesn't much matter if one model is better than the other.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 10, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (22) | comments 64

Cyclones spurt water into the stratosphere, feeding global warming

Scientists at Harvard University have found that tropical cyclones readily inject ice far into the stratosphere, possibly feeding global warming.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 20, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (7) | comments 9

Breath or urine analysis may detect cancer, diabetes

(PhysOrg.com) -- A future sensor may take away a patient's breath while simultaneously determining whether the patient has breast cancer, lung cancer, diabetes or asthma. A University of Missouri researcher is developing ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Mar 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Water evaporated from trees cools global climate

Scientists have long debated about the impact on global climate of water evaporated from vegetation. New research from Carnegie's Global Ecology department concludes that evaporated water helps cool the earth as a whole, ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 14

Researcher investigates new material grown from sugar

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ordinary table sugar could be a key ingredient to developing much lighter, faster, cheaper, denser and more robust computer electronics for use on U.S. military aircraft.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0