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Spray-on liquid glass is about to revolutionize almost everything

(PhysOrg.com) -- Spray-on liquid glass is transparent, non-toxic, and can protect virtually any surface against almost any damage from hazards such as water, UV radiation, dirt, heat, and bacterial infections. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 02, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (280) | comments 97 | with audio podcast report

Presto! Fast color-changing material may lead to more powerful computers (w/Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in Japan are reporting development of a new so-called "photochromic" material that changes color thousands of times faster than conventional materials when exposed to light.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (18) | comments 7

UV light stick purifies water

(PhysOrg.com) -- Today, about one billion people on Earth don't have access to clean drinking water, and that number is expected to increase even more in the coming years. To solve this problem, inventors ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Feb 25, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 13 | with audio podcast weblog

High-purity hydrogen generated from a single device

(PhysOrg.com) -- There are many ways to generate hydrogen, such as water electrolysis and steam reforming of gas, but the hydrogen produced by these methods tends to be combined with other byproduct and residual ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Oct 07, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 17 | with audio podcast feature

Chocolate rich in flavanols may protect the skin from UV

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study has discovered for the first time that dark chocolate rich in flavanols may provide significant protection from the harmful effects of ultraviolet light.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 3 weblog

Researchers extend genetic code of an entire animal

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers Sebastian Greiss and Jason Chin of the Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, have succeeded in manipulating the DNA of a nematode such that a ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Aug 15, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 7 | with audio podcast report

Reindeer see a weird and wonderful world of ultraviolet light

Researchers have discovered that the ultraviolet (UV) light that causes the temporary but painful condition of snow blindness in humans is life-saving for reindeer in the arctic.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

It heals and grows together: Polymer with amazing self-healing properties

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sooner or later, a cut to the skin or a broken bone will heal on its own; however, a scratch to a car's paint or a tear in the wing of an airplane will not. Materials with self-healing properties ...

Chemistry / Polymers

created Jan 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

New study suggests stem cells sabotage their own DNA to produce new tissues

A new study from the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI) and the University of Ottawa suggests that stem cells intentionally break their own DNA as a way of regulating tissue development. The study, published in Proceedings of ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Water, fair and foul: Scientist demonstrates that UV light can zap unwanted 'life' in drinking water

Does your drinking water smell foul, or are you worried that chemicals might be damaging your family's health? Water treatment facilities currently use chlorine that produces carcinogenic by-products to keep your tapwater ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 21, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Research opens doors to UV disinfection using LED technology

Research from North Carolina State University will allow the development of energy-efficient LED devices that use ultraviolet (UV) light to kill pathogens such as bacteria and viruses. The technology has a wide array of applications ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created May 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

How the Milky Way killed off its satellites

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two researchers from Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg have revealed for the first time the existence of a new signature of the birth of the first stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way. ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers find melanoma not caused by early UVA light exposure

Early life exposure to ultraviolet A light does not cause melanoma in a fish model that previously made that connection, scientists from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center reported today in the online Early ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created May 04, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Self-destructing messages: Light-reactive coatings make metal nanoparticles into inks for self-erasing paper

(PhysOrg.com) -- Those who like to watch spy movies like “Mission Impossible” are familiar with the self-destructing messages that inform the secret agents of the details of their mission and then dissolve in a puff of smoke. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

How sunlight may reduce the severity of multiple sclerosis

New research into the neurodegenerative disease, Multiple Sclerosis (MS) offers new insight into the link between sunlight, vitamin D3, and MS risk and severity. The research, published in the European Journal of Immunology, studie ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0