News tagged with transit
Public transit systems contribute to weight loss and improved health
Increasing the availability of public transit systems is one among a number of modifications to the built environment that offers opportunities for increasing physical activity and reducing the prevalence of obesity and its ...
Jun 29, 2010 |
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First images of heavy electrons in action (w/ Video)
Using a microscope designed to image the arrangement and interactions of electrons in crystals, scientists have captured the first images of electrons that appear to take on extraordinary mass under certain ...
Jun 02, 2010 |
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Squeezing Information from Materials under Extreme Pressure
(PhysOrg.com) -- By compressing tiny amounts of material between two diamond anvils, scientists have for more than three decades been able to achieve pressures of over 1 million atmospheres. The physical changes ...
May 31, 2010 |
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The role of calcium in Randall's plaques (kidney stones)
Randall's plaques are soft tissue calcifications found in the deep renal medulla skirting the surface of the epithelium of the papilla, where they act as nucleating elements for renal calculi or stones. These ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 31, 2010 |
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Looking for critical behavior in graphene
(PhysOrg.com) -- "One of the hopes people have for graphene is in electronic devices. It is seen as a possible replacement for silicon, due to its unique properties," Herb Fertig tells PhysOrg.com. Graphe ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 18, 2010 |
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IBM, Texas Transportation Institute Collaborate on Intelligent Transportation
IBM and Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) have agreed to collaborate on research and development of intelligent transportation projects in Texas and beyond.
May 07, 2010 |
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The Kepler Mission
(PhysOrg.com) -- Since the first planet around another star (an "extrasolar planet") was discovered by SAO astronomers and others in 1989, over 450 extrasolar planets have been found. Their study now comprises a whole new ...
Apr 26, 2010 |
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New mechanism for superconductivity discovered in iron-based superconductors
(PhysOrg.com) -- A research team at RIKEN, Japan’s flagship research organisation has experimentally determined the mechanism underlying the formation of electron pairs in iron-based high-temperature superconductors. ...
Apr 22, 2010 |
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Catching electrons in the act: Science on the attosecond scale
(PhysOrg.com) -- Understanding how to create artificial photosynthesis, or tough, flexible high-temperature superconductors, or better solar cells, or a myriad other advances, will only be possible when we ...
Apr 16, 2010 |
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Watching the Tug of War between Structure and Superconductivity
(PhysOrg.com) -- Like Clark Kent, who often forgoes his social life to become Superman, materials that become superconducting must sacrifice at least one of their natural properties to attain the ability to ...
Apr 15, 2010 |
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New PV cell generates electricity from IR and UV light
(PhysOrg.com) -- A prototype of a new type of photovoltaic (PV) cell that generates electricity from visible, infrared and ultraviolet light has been demonstrated by a group of Japanese scientists. It could ...
Mar 24, 2010 |
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Room Temperature Liquid Porphyrins
(PhysOrg.com) -- Porphyrins have received a great deal of attention in the scientific community owing to their useful application in a wide variety of areas, such as the treatment of cancer and systems that mimic photosynthesis. ...
Mar 23, 2010 |
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Giant 'microscope' will use neutrons to study glass transition
(PhysOrg.com) -- The National Science Foundation has awarded $1.65 million to a project led by Washington University in St. Louis physicist Ken Kelton to build an electrostatic levitation chamber that will ...
Mar 19, 2010 |
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Hydrocarbon superconductor created
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from Okayama University in Japan have discovered that the hydrocarbon picene can be made to superconduct when potassium atoms are interspersed with the picene crystals and the doped ...
Mar 10, 2010 |
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How many argon atoms can fit on the surface of a carbon nanotube?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Phase transitions -- changes of matter from one state to another without altering its chemical makeup -- are an important part of life in our three-dimensional world. Water falls to the ground as snow, melts ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jan 28, 2010 |
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