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Machine Converts CO2 into Gasoline, Diesel, and Jet Fuel

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have built a machine that uses the sun's energy to convert carbon dioxide waste from power plants into transportation fuels such as gasoline, diesel, ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (47) | comments 25 weblog

A new kind of metal in the deep Earth

(PhysOrg.com) -- The crushing pressures and intense temperatures in Earth's deep interior squeeze atoms and electrons so closely together that they interact very differently. With depth materials change. New ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (21) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Study Yields Surprising New Insight into High-Temp Superconductors

(PhysOrg.com) -- Recently, an international group of researchers discovered that the underlying mechanism producing high-temperature superconductivity in a widely studied class of copper-oxygen-based superconductors may be ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Mar 17, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 135 feature

Scientists make tiny new magnets from old bugs

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Manchester have found a clean and green way of making tiny magnets for high tech gadgets - using natural bacteria that have been around for millions of years.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 01, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Physicists discover 'magnetotoroidic effect'

(PhysOrg.com) -- For many years, scientists have known about the magnetoelectric effect, in which an electric field can induce and control a magnetic field, and vice versa. In this effect, the electric field has always been ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (16) | comments 6 | with audio podcast feature

Bright water proposal to cut global warming

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Harvard physicist has proposed the Earth could be cooled by pumping vast numbers of tiny bubbles into the sea to lower ocean temperatures and increase the water’s reflectivity. The same ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 29, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (22) | comments 19 | with audio podcast report

Searching for alien earths with planet colors

Earth is invitingly blue. Mars is angry red. Venus is brilliant white. Astronomers have learned that a planet's "true colors" can reveal important details. For example, Mars is red because its soil contains ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 03, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Like little golden assassins, 'smart' nanoparticles identify, target and kill cancer cells

Another weapon in the arsenal against cancer: Nanoparticles that identify, target and kill specific cancer cells while leaving healthy cells alone.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 08, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (14) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

NASA research offers new prospect of water on Mars

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA scientists are seeing new evidence that suggests traces of water on Mars are under a thin varnish of iron oxide, or rust, similar to conditions found on desert rocks in California's Mojave ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 02, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

Iron is key to reversing global warming, Nature research shows

Canada defines itself as a nation that stretches from coast to coast to coast. But can we keep those coasts healthy in the face of climate change? Yves Gélinas, associate professor in Concordia's Department of Chemistry ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 14, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

'Ferropaper' is new technology for small motors, robots

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Purdue University have created a magnetic "ferropaper" that might be used to make low-cost "micromotors" for surgical instruments, tiny tweezers to study cells and miniature ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 05, 2010 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scorpion venom with nanoparticles slows spread of brain cancer

By combining nanoparticles with a scorpion venom compound already being investigated for treating brain cancer, University of Washington researchers found they could cut the spread of cancerous cells by 98 ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 16, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 3

Nanorods could greatly improve visual display of information (w/ Video)

Chemists at the University of California, Riverside have developed tiny, nanoscale-size rods of iron oxide particles in the lab that respond to an external magnetic field in a way that could dramatically improve ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 14, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Fool's gold may prove an unlikely alternative to overexploited catalytic materials

Catalytic materials, which lower the energy barriers for chemical reactions, are used in everything from the commercial production of chemicals to catalytic converters in car engines. However, with current catalytic materials ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Virus battery could power cars, electronic devices

For the first time, MIT researchers have shown they can genetically engineer viruses to build both the positively and negatively charged ends of a lithium-ion battery.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 02, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 4