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Right/left handedness of snails changed in the lab

(PhysOrg.com) -- Like most animals, snails have either left- or right-handed asymmetry (chirality), both internally and externally, and the handedness is hereditary. A new study has for the first time found ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 2 weblog




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Glass sponge as a living climate archive

(PhysOrg.com) -- Climate scientists have discovered a new archive of historical sea temperatures. With the help of the skeleton of a sponge that belongs to the Monorhaphis chuni species and that lived in the ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Full Titanic site mapped for 1st time

Researchers have pieced together what's believed to be the first comprehensive map of the entire 3-by-5-mile Titanic debris field and hope it will provide new clues about what exactly happened the night 100 ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Cutting-edge cocktails light up New York

You're not allowed to light a cigarette in New York bars, but there's nothing to stop a bartender from setting your cocktail on fire with a 815 degrees Celsius (1,500 degrees Fahrenheit) poker.

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Optical fiber innovation could make future optical computers a 'SNAP'

Optics and photonics may one day revolutionize computer technology with the promise of light-speed calculations. Storing light as memory, however, requires devices known as microresonators, an emerging technology ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Dec 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (18) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Twisted crystals point way toward active optical materials

(PhysOrg.com) -- A nanoscale game of "now you see it, now you don't" may contribute to the creation of metamaterials with useful optical properties that can be actively controlled, according to scientists ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists drag light by slowing it to speed of sound

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Glasgow have, for the first time, been able to drag light by slowing it down to the speed of sound and sending it through a rotating crystal.

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jul 06, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (27) | comments 43 | with audio podcast

World’s first 3D plasmon ruler: Taking the 3-D measure of macromolecules

(PhysOrg.com) -- The world's first three-dimensional plasmon rulers, capable of measuring nanometer-scale spatial changes in macrmolecular systems, have been developed by researchers with the U.S. Department ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Spinning new materials in a thread for fiber-based electronics, photonics devices

Researchers at MIT have succeeded in making a fine thread that functions as a diode, a device at the heart of modern electronics. This feat — made possible by a new approach to a type of fiber manufacturing ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created May 20, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Exposing ZnO nanorods to visible light removes microbes

The practical use of visible light and zinc oxide nanorods for destroying bacterial water contamination has been successfully demonstrated by researchers at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT). Nanorods grown on glass ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Strong, tough and now cheap: New way to process metallic glass developed (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stronger than steel or titanium -- and just as tough -- metallic glass is an ideal material for everything from cell-phone cases to aircraft parts. Now, researchers at the California Institute ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created May 12, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 25 | with audio podcast


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