A University of Central Florida chemist has come up with a unique way to kill certain cancer cells – give them acid reflux.

Chemistry - Biochemistry

Mar 07, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 0 |

(Phys.org) —Americans take electrical power for granted whenever they flip on a light switch. But the growing use of solar and wind power in the United States makes the on-demand delivery of electricity ...

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

Mar 07, 2013 4.3 / 5 (9) 33 |

A rare bright comet shows up in the northern hemisphere this week, cruising past Earth with promise of spectacular naked-eye viewings of the giant ball of ice and dust streaking the twilight sky with a blazing ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Mar 06, 2013 5 / 5 (8) 0

(Phys.org) —Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland, College Park, have built a practical, high-efficiency nanostructured electron source. Described ...

Nanotechnology - Nanophysics

Mar 06, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 2 |

A multi-university research team has used a new spectroscopic method to gain a key insight into how light is emitted from layered nanomaterials and other thin films.

Nanotechnology - Nanomaterials

Mar 05, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 0 |

(Phys.org)—The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is one of the most powerful available to astronomers, but sometimes it too needs a helping hand. This comes in the form of Einstein's general theory of relativity, ...

Space & Earth - Astronomy

Mar 05, 2013 4 / 5 (8) 5 |

(Phys.org) —A collaboration between groups Uncharted Play and Power the World, has resulted in the creation of a soccer ball generator they call the SOCCKET—when used, it generates enough electricity ...

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

Mar 01, 2013 3.3 / 5 (7) 17 |

Hollywood devotes great effort to chasing monsters through realistic-looking environments. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken have now developed a technology that greatly ...

Technology - Computer Sciences

Feb 28, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 2 |

Researchers at Rice University and Sandia National Laboratories have made a nanotube-based photodetector that gathers light in and beyond visible wavelengths. It promises to make possible a unique set of ...

Nanotechnology - Nanophysics

Feb 27, 2013 4.8 / 5 (4) 1 |

Researchers from the Finnish Aalto University and the Technical Research Centre of Finland succeeded in showing experimentally that vacuum has properties not previously observed. According to the laws of ...

Physics - General Physics

Feb 26, 2013 4.8 / 5 (35) 418 |

(Phys.org)—Can windows, tablets and e readers turn light into power? Can a surface coated with solar cells take sunlight and the glow of bulbs and change them into energy? As reported in Technology Review, expert ...

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

Feb 26, 2013 4 / 5 (7) 11 |

Bottles, packaging, furniture, car parts... all made of plastic. Today we find it difficult to imagine our lives without this key material that revolutionized technology over the last century. There is wide-spread optimism ...

Nanotechnology - Nanomaterials

Feb 24, 2013 4.5 / 5 (15) 4 |

(Phys.org)—Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a way to melt or "weld" specific portions of polymers by embedding aligned nanoparticles within the materials. Their technique, ...

Nanotechnology - Nanomaterials

Feb 21, 2013 5 / 5 (4) 1 |

(Phys.org)—Digital cameras, medical scanners, and other imaging technologies have advanced considerably during the past decade. Continuing this pace of innovation, an Austrian research team has developed ...

Physics - Optics & Photonics

Feb 20, 2013 5 / 5 (8) 3 |

(Phys.org)—A new image from ESO's VISTA telescope captures a celestial landscape of glowing clouds of gas and tendrils of dust surrounding hot young stars. This infrared view reveals the stellar nursery ...

Space & Earth - Astronomy

Feb 20, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0 |