(AP) -- Students graduating from the growing ranks of online high schools are running into a hurdle if their goal is to join the military: The Pentagon doesn't want many recruits with non-traditional diplomas.
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May 9, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Yale University have succeeded in building a new kind of laser based on the way brightly colored birds show their colors. Building on the new approach to creating laser beams, whereby holes ...
Research on gene expression has resulted in plants that can survive drought, high salt concentrations, and infections. This opens the possibility of forestry in harsh climates. The plants produce more leaves than usual, which ...
Biotechnology
May 9, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An international research team has discovered a new method to produce belts of graphene called nanoribbons. By using hydrogen, they have managed to unzip single-walled carbon nanotubes. The method also opens ...
Nanomaterials
May 9, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Ocean waves can be incredibly strong and very difficult to block completely. When a wave moving across the ocean interacts with a buoy, the wave can be slightly dampened, but will still pass by if its wavelength ...
Scientists in the Argonne National Laboratory's Nanofabrication & Devices Group together with users from the University of North Carolina and North Carolina State University have written an invited review article describing ...
Bio & Medicine
May 9, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Expedition 27 crew photographed this sunset over western South America from aboard the International Space Station.
Space Exploration
May 9, 2011
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The British quest for better way of life is explored in the first research study to look at the everyday lives of the British living in France.
Social Sciences
May 9, 2011
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This year’s 2.007 robotics competition paid homage to MIT’s illustrious hacking tradition, and challenged students to build robots that could replicate some of the greatest hacks in Institute history.
Robotics
May 9, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Toronto and Stanford and Columbia Universities have developed a way to measure the action and function of candidate prescription drugs on human cells, including the response ...
Biochemistry
May 9, 2011
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