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A crowning success for crayfish

Nature sometimes copies its own particularly successful developments. A team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam and the Ben-Gurion University at Beer-Sheva in ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Hybrid 'Janus' nanoparticles made from gold and titania have high catalytic activity and extraordinary durability

As recently as twenty-five years ago, chemists considered gold to be one of the most inert metallic elements, until the discovery that nanoscale-sized dispersions of gold had high catalytic activity forced ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

First Mars Express gravity results plot volcanic history

(Phys.org) -- Five years of Mars Express gravity mapping data are providing unique insights into what lies beneath the Red Planet’s largest volcanoes. The results show that the lava grew denser over time ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Image: Hubble peeks inside a stellar cloud

(Phys.org) -- These bright stars shining through what looks like a haze in the night sky are part of a young stellar grouping in one of the largest known star formation regions of the Large Magellanic Cloud ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Studies reveal structure of EV71, a virus causing childhood illnesses

Researchers have discovered critical new details about the structure of a virus that causes potentially fatal brain swelling and paralysis in children, pointing toward designs for antiviral drugs to treat ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Engineers find inspiration for new materials in Piranha-proof armor

(PhysOrg.com) -- It’s a matchup worthy of a late-night cable movie: put a school of starving piranha and a 300-pound fish together, and who comes out the winner?

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Atoms dressed with light show new interactions, could reveal way to observe enigmatic particle

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) have for the first time engineered and detected the presence of high angular momentum collisions between atoms at temperatures close to absolute ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

'Nature's armor' could help engineers design stronger materials

(PhysOrg.com) -- In nature, the strength of mother-of-pearl is a key to survival for some shellfish. Now a team led by Xiaodong Li, an engineering professor at the University of South Carolina, has posited an explanation ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Are electron tweezers possible? Apparently so

(PhysOrg.com) -- Not to pick up electrons, but tweezers made of electrons. A recent paper by researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Virginia (UVA) demonstrates that ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Water, water everywhere: Polarization dramatically affects H2O structure revealed through molecular dynamics simulation

(PhysOrg.com) -- Water is essential to more than its myriad roles in biological, chemical, geological, and other physical processes. Having a precise description of water’s structure is critical to con ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 2 | with audio podcast feature


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