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Discovery could challenge established theory of the nucleus

(PhysOrg.com) -- By analyzing data from experiments performed earlier this decade at the Oak Ridge Electron Linear Accelerator (ORELA), physicists have made observations that seem to conflict with the widely accepted theory ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 26, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (58) | comments 65 | with audio podcast report

Discovery could lead to more difficult Sudoku puzzles

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new analysis of number randomness in Sudoku matrices could lead to the development of more difficult and multi-dimensional Sudoku puzzles. In a recent study, mathematicians have found that ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Feb 13, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (31) | comments 11 | with audio podcast weblog

'Seeing' through paint

(PhysOrg.com) -- When light passes through materials that we consider opaque, such as paint, biological tissue, fabric and paper, it is scattered in such a complex way that an image does not come through. ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 18, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (24) | comments 7 | with audio podcast feature

Unraveling the Matrix

A new way of analyzing grids of numbers known as matrices could improve signal-processing applications and data-compression schemes.

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Jul 29, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (23) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

LG to Launch 15-inch OLED TV

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Korean company, LG Electronics, the second largest television manufacturer in the world, has announced it will launch a 15-inch organic display TV set in early September. The announcement, ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (20) | comments 5 weblog

Surprising nucleon behavior

Data from DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory on neutron interactions with isotopes of platinum contradict a basic assumption underpinning random matrix theory, nuclear physics models and quantum chaos.

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 30, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 2

Trapped! Scientists Immobilize Bacteria in Fibrous Hydrogel

(PhysOrg.com) -- Bacteria play a role in myriad industrial processes from fermentation to cleaning up environmental pollution. But floating freely in solution, the microbial cells constantly multiply, generating ...

Chemistry / Polymers

created Aug 04, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 2

Scientists use nature's design principles to create specialized nanofabrics

In Nature, cells and tissues assemble and organize themselves within a matrix of protein fibers that ultimately determines their structure and function, such as the elasticity of skin and the contractility ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 02, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Your fat may help you heal

It frequently happens in science that what you throw away turns out to be most valuable. It happened to Deepak Nagrath, but not for long.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 25, 2010 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (11) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers develop living, breathing human lung-on-a-chip (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital Boston have created a device that mimics a living, ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 24, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover mechanism that limits scar formation

Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago have discovered that an unexpected cellular response plays an important role in breaking down and inhibiting the formation of excess scar tissue in wound healing.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 10, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Biomedical breakthrough: Blood vessels for lab-grown tissues (w/ Video)

Researchers from Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) have broken one of the major roadblocks on the path to growing transplantable tissue in the lab: They've found a way to grow the blood vessels and capillaries ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Cell microenvironments hold key to future stem cell therapies

Adult stem cells and their more committed kin, progenitor cells, are prized by medical researchers for their ability to produce different types of specialized cells. The potential of using these cells to repair ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Origins of multicellularity: All in the family

One of the most pivotal steps in evolution-the transition from unicellular to multicellular organisms-may not have required as much retooling as commonly believed, found a globe-spanning collaboration of scientists ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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

Engineers create polymer light-emitting devices that can be stretched like rubber

Stretchable electronics, an emerging class of modern electronic materials that can bend and stretch, have the potential to be used in a wide range of applications, including wearable electronics, "smart skins" and minimally ...

Chemistry / Polymers

created Aug 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 5 | with audio podcast