Nobel winners and losers
(PhysOrg.com) -- Author Erling Norrby discusses how the Nobel Prizes for the sciences, while often awarding breakthrough efforts, also can miss pivotal findings that made a difference.
Other
Jun 17, 2010
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Seventh Graders Find a Cave on Mars
(PhysOrg.com) -- California middle school students using the camera on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter have found lava tubes with one pit that appears to be a skylight to a cave.
Space Exploration
Jun 17, 2010
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Polar oceans key to temperature in the tropics
Scientists have found that the ocean temperature at the earth's polar extremes has a significant impact thousands of miles away at the equator.
Earth Sciences
Jun 17, 2010
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UF marine researchers rush to collect samples as oil threat grows
(PhysOrg.com) -- GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- In a race against time, University of Florida marine researchers are hurrying to collect underwater marine algae samples in the Florida Keys while an ever-growing Gulf oil spill steadily ...
Environment
Jun 17, 2010
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Ocean changes may have dire impacts on people
(PhysOrg.com) -- The first comprehensive synthesis on the effects of climate change on the world’s oceans has found they are now changing at a rate not seen for several million years.
Environment
Jun 17, 2010
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Highly efficient solar cells could result from quantum dot research
Conventional solar cell efficiency could be increased from the current limit of 30 percent to more than 60 percent, suggests new research on semiconductor nanocrystals, or quantum dots, led by chemist Xiaoyang Zhu at The ...
Nanomaterials
Jun 17, 2010
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Radiocarbon dating pinpoints chronology of Egyptian kings
(PhysOrg.com) -- An international research team has mapped out an accurate chronology of the kings of ancient Egypt using a radiocarbon analysis of short-lived plant remains from the region.
Archaeology
Jun 17, 2010
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Physicists get an up-close look at synthetic quantum materials
(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at Harvard University have, for the first time, tracked individual atoms in a gas cooled to extreme temperatures as the particles reorganized into a crystal, a process driven by quantum mechanics. ...
Quantum Physics
Jun 17, 2010
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Carbon dioxide is the missing link to past global climate changes
Increasingly, the Earth's climate appears to be more connected than anyone would have imagined. El Nino, the weather pattern that originates in a patch of the equatorial Pacific, can spawn heat waves and droughts as far away ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 17, 2010
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Samsung Introduces High-speed 512GB SSD Utilizing New Toggle-mode DDR NAND Memory
Samsung Electronics today introduced the first solid state drive (SSD) utilizing high-performance toggle-mode DDR NAND. The new 512 gigabyte (GB) SSD provides electronic data processing application designers with advanced ...
Hardware
Jun 17, 2010
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