ORNL goes solar with 288-foot span of panels
Oak Ridge National Laboratory wants its energy operations to be as advanced as its energy research.
Energy & Green Tech
Jan 23, 2009
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Keeping cool using the summer heat
(PhysOrg.com) -- While most Australians are taking care to shield themselves from the harsh summer heat, scientists from the CSIRO Energy Transformed Flagship are working on ways to harness the sun’s warmth to cool our ...
Energy & Green Tech
Jan 23, 2009
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Researchers make breakthrough against poxviruses
Smallpox has a nasty history throughout the world. Caused by poxviruses, smallpox is one of the few disease-causing agents against which the human body's immune system is ineffective in its defense.
Jan 23, 2009
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C1XS catches first glimpse of X-ray from the moon
(PhysOrg.com) -- The C1XS X-ray camera, jointly developed by the UK's STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), has successfully detected its first X-ray signature from the Moon. ...
Space Exploration
Jan 23, 2009
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Tension in the nanoworld
(PhysOrg.com) -- A joint team of researchers at CIC nanoGUNE (San Sebastian, Spain) and the Max Planck Institutes of Biochemistry and Plasma Physics (Munich, Germany) report the non-invasive and nanoscale resolved infrared ...
Nanophysics
Jan 23, 2009
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A crystal clear view of chalk formation
(PhysOrg.com) -- It has a beautiful, but also an unpleasant side: crystallization determines the shape of precious stones, but also causes the lime scale in washing machines. How this comes about, has been known for a long ...
Condensed Matter
Jan 23, 2009
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Danube delta holds answers to 'Noah's flood' debate (Video)
Did a catastrophic flood of biblical proportions drown the shores of the Black Sea 9,500 years ago, wiping out early Neolithic settlements around its perimeter? A geologist with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 23, 2009
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Scientists use Brownian Motion to Explore How Birds Flock Together
(PhysOrg.com) -- How do thousands of fish swim together in giant schools, seemingly moving as a single body? Flocks of birds, herds of beasts, and a variety of other animals in nature seem to share this same “property” ...
New Insight Into How Bees See
New research from Monash University bee researcher Adrian Dyer could lead to improved artificial intelligence systems and computer programs for facial recognition.
Jan 23, 2009
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