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New 3-D structures assemble with remarkable precision

(Phys.org) -- While it is relatively straightforward to build a box on the macroscale, it is much more challenging at smaller micro- and nanometer length scales. At those sizes, three-dimensional (3-D) structures are too ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Look ma, no mercury in fillings!

Tooth enamel is hardest material in the human body because it's made almost entirely of minerals. As tough as it may be, however, enamel can be broken down by bacteria, forming cavities and eventually destroying the tooth. ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

GEMS mission to explore the polarized universe

An exciting new astrophysics mission led by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., will provide a revolutionary window into the universe. Named the Gravity and Extreme Magnetism Small Explorer ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 04, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 1

Cloned horses could offer insight into DNA possibilities

Before the show-jumping champion Gem Twist died in 2006, his New Jersey owners paid to have a flap of his skin frozen -- hoping to carry something of his prodigious talent into the future.

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created Jan 25, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0




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Physicists store short movies in an atomic vapor

The storage of light-encoded messages on film and compact disks and as holograms is ubiquitous---grocery scanners, Netflix disks, credit-card images are just a few examples. And now light signals can be stored ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Researcher develops personalized search engines

(Phys.org) -- With little more than basic information about Web users’ behavior – that is, the hyperlinks they click on daily and the content at those sites – Susan Gauch can build a better search engine. In ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

App helps border crossers brave long wait times

“A gem of an app.” “Clean UI [user interface], very easy to use.” “Eliminates the guess work!”

Technology / Software

created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Review: Wi-Fi bunny improves, still seeks purpose

(AP) -- Six years ago, a white plastic rabbit that was connected to my home Wi-Fi network read some news headlines and played a few songs. Colored lights on his belly lit up a few times throughout the day, ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

New technique lets scientists peer within nanoparticles, see atomic structure in 3-D

(PhysOrg.com) -- UCLA researchers are now able to peer deep within the world's tiniest structures to create three-dimensional images of individual atoms and their positions. Their research, published March ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Hail to the geeks

Basketball dominates the American sports landscape in March. So perhaps it’s fitting that the sixth annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, held Friday and Saturday in Boston, heavily showcased ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Mar 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Proposed Mars mission has new name

A proposed Discovery mission concept led by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., to investigate the formation and evolution of terrestrial planets by studying the deep interior of Mars now has ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 4

Good news for Republic of Congo chimpanzees

The Republic of Congo has formally expanded Nouabale-Ndoki National Park to protect an increasingly rare treasure: one of Africa's most pristine forests and a population of "naïve" chimpanzees with so little exposure ...

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers find strange new nanoregion can form in quasicrystals

A team of international researchers has discovered a new type of structural anomaly, or defect, that can appear in quasicrystals, a unique material with some crystal-like properties but a more complex structure.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The developing genome? More than just packaging, the genome affects the way our genes change and develop

Since Charles Darwin first put forth the theory of evolution, scientists have been trying to unlock the mysteries of genetics. But research on the genome — the organism's entire hereditary package encoded in DNA and ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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