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Rocket launches may need regulation to prevent ozone depletion, says study

The global market for rocket launches may require more stringent regulation in order to prevent significant damage to Earth's stratospheric ozone layer in the decades to come, according to a new study by researchers ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (65) | comments 24

Scientists synthesize graphene-like material: Polymer with honeycomb structure

Two-dimensional carbon layers, so-called graphenes, are regarded as a possible substitute for silicon in the semiconductor industry. The electronic properties of these layers can be varied by "building in" ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (36) | comments 1

Lessons from the Brain: Toward an Intelligent Molecular Computer

(PhysOrg.com) -- Information processing circuits in digital computers are static. In our brains, information processing circuits—neurons—evolve continuously to solve complex problems. Now, an international ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 25, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (38) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Oil-based color pixels could let you watch videos on e-paper

(PhysOrg.com) -- By rapidly manipulating colored oil droplets stacked on top of each other, a new electrowetting (EW) technique could lead to the development of electronic paper displays that can produce high-resolution ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 26, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (33) | comments 3 | with audio podcast feature

Scientists watch evolution in action

(PhysOrg.com) -- The yellow-bellied three-toed skink (Saiphos equalis) is one of only three reptiles known to have different methods of reproduction in different places. In the coastal areas of New South ...

Biology / Evolution

created Sep 06, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (29) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

GE Shows Off 1TB DVD-Sized Disks at the Emerging Tech Conference

(PhysOrg.com) -- At the September '09 Emerging Tech Conference in Boston, GE announced it has been developing a 1TB DVD size disk that can be read by a modified Blu-ray player.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (28) | comments 15 weblog

Science under fire from 'merchants of doubt': US historian

Scientists are facing an uphill battle to warn the public about pressing issues due to dissenters in their ranks who intentionally sow uncertainty, says a US historian.

Other Sciences / Other

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (33) | comments 118

Climate Change and Atmospheric Circulation Will Make for Uneven Ozone Recovery

(PhysOrg.com) -- Earth's ozone layer should eventually recover from the unintended destruction brought on by the use of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and similar ozone-depleting chemicals in the 20th century. ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 10, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (28) | comments 6

Self-assembling solar panels a step closer

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists Robert J. Knuesel and Heiko O. Jacobs of the University of Minnesota have developed a way to make tiny solar cells self-assemble.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jan 14, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (26) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

Researchers discover water on the moon is widespread, similar to Earth's

Researchers at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, are once again turning what scientists thought they knew about the moon on its head.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 21, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (23) | comments 25 | with audio podcast

NASA trapped Mars Rover finds evidence of subsurface water

(PhysOrg.com) -- The ground where NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit became stuck last year holds evidence that water, perhaps as snow melt, trickled into the subsurface fairly recently and on a continuing ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 28, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (21) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

High reliability of flexible organic transistor memory looks promising for future electronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- With the constant demand for high-performance nonvolatile memory devices, researchers continue to develop better memories - ones with low power consumption, good reliability, and low manufacturing ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 08, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (21) | comments 0 | with audio podcast feature

Beyond CO2: Study reveals growing importance of HFCs in climate warming

Some of the substances that are helping to avert the destruction of the ozone layer could increasingly contribute to climate warming, according to scientists from NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory and their colleagues ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (24) | comments 23

A bubbling ball of gas (w/ Video)

The Sun is a bubbling mass. Packages of gas rise and sink, lending the sun its grainy surface structure, its granulation. Dark spots appear and disappear, clouds of matter dart up - and behind the whole thing ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (18) | comments 7

Electronic spectacles coming to market soon

(PhysOrg.com) -- US company PixelOptics has invented electronic spectacles that can automatically change focus as you lower your head to read a book, and could spell the end of the bifocal.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jun 23, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (19) | comments 5 | with audio podcast report