News tagged with low density

Researchers develop graphene supercapacitor holding promise for portable electronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- Electrochemical capacitors (ECs), also known as supercapacitors or ultracapacitors, differ from regular capacitors that you would find in your TV or computer in that they store substantially ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (25) | comments 30 | with audio podcast

Navy researchers investigate small-scale autonomous planetary explorers

Robotic exploration to remote regions, to include distant planetary bodies, is often limited by energy requirements to perform, in repetition, even the simplest tasks. With this in mind, researchers at the ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

We are not only eating 'materials', we are also eating 'information'

In a new study, Chen-Yu Zhang's group at Nanjing university present a rather striking finding that plant miRNAs could make into the host blood and tissues via the route of food-intake. Moreover, once inside the host, they ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 19, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 4

NRL instrument provides key space weather data

Data products from the Special Sensor Ultraviolet Limb Imager (SSULI) developed by the NRL Spacecraft Engineering Department and Space Science Division were officially transitioned for use in operational systems ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Blueberry's effects on cholesterol examined in lab animal study

Laboratory hamsters that were fed rations spiked with blueberry peels and other blueberry-juice-processing leftovers had better cholesterol health than hamsters whose rations weren't enhanced with blueberries. That's according ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nanocyrstalline diamond aerogel: New form of girl's best friend is lighter than ever

(PhysOrg.com) -- By combining high pressure with high temperature, Livermore researchers have created a nanocyrstalline diamond aerogel that could improve the optics something as big as a telescope or as small ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created May 17, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

NASA selects SwRI mass spectrometer for technology development funding

NASA has selected Southwest Research Institute's MAss Spectrometer for Planetary EXploration (MASPEX) for technology development funding. Originally offered as part of the Primitive Material Explorer (PriME) mission proposal, ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

New protein could prove powerful target for cholesterol lowering drugs

A protein has been discovered that may have a profound effect on cholesterol metabolism. That discovery raises the possibility that the protein, dubbed IDOL, could be a powerful target for cholesterol-lowering drugs, says ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Multiferroics could lead to low-power devices

(PhysOrg.com) -- Magnetic materials in which the north and south poles can be reversed with an electric field may be ideal candidates for low-power electronic devices, such as those used for ultra-high data storage. But finding ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created May 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New links between cholesterol and depression in the elderly

Most people know that high cholesterol levels place them at increased risk for heart disease and stroke. Prior research has shown that particular types of strokes contribute to one's risk for depression, and that abnormal ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jul 21, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Tour de France Stresses Riders' Bodies to the Limit

Glancing at the elevation profiles of the stages of the 2010 Tour de France is enough to tire a couch potato. The mountainous race is legendarily strenuous, but beyond short-term discomforts such as road rash ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 19, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Aggressive control of cardiac risk factors might not benefit all patients with diabetes

A mathematical model suggests that aggressively pursuing low blood pressure and cholesterol levels may not benefit, and could even harm, some patients with diabetes, according to a report in the June 28 issue of Archives of ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jun 28, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Intensive BP, combined lipid therapies do not help adults with diabetes

Lowering blood pressure to normal levels - below currently recommended levels - did not significantly reduce the combined risk of fatal or nonfatal cardiovascular disease events in adults with type 2 diabetes who were at ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 14, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

One in five U.S. teenagers has high cholesterol

(PhysOrg.com) -- A study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and published in their Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, has found that over 20% of teenagers in the U.S. have elevated cholesterol levels ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 25, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Low cholesterol transfer protein activity associated with heart disease risk

Although seen as a potential heart disease therapy, raising high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol levels by inhibiting activity of a transfer protein may not be effective, a new study suggests. Scientists at the Jean ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0