What holds the surface area of several football fields in the mass equivalent of a paper clip? The answer to this question has many names and performs duties ranging from catalysis to gas storage: the metal organic framework, ...
Materials Science
Apr 25, 2012
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You wouldn't know it from appearances, but a metal cube the size of a toaster, created at the University of Alberta, is capable of performing the same genetic tests as most fully equipped modern laboratories—and in a ...
Bio & Medicine
Apr 25, 2012
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(AP) -- The government wants you to install solar panels at your house, and will even give you a tax break to do it. But your neighbors? Maybe not.
Energy & Green Tech
Apr 25, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- Women who excel in male-dominated science, technology, engineering and mathematic fields are often unjustly stereotyped as unfeminine.
Social Sciences
Apr 25, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- With more than 60,000 descendants in six generations, Pawnee Farm Arlinda Chief and his son Walkway Chief Mark cast a long genetic shadow. New research on the genomes of the two bulls show how portions of their ...
Biotechnology
Apr 25, 2012
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In a study released yesterday (Tuesday, April 24), three UC Berkeley researchers conclude that graduates of the University of California and California State University systems provide ongoing returns to the state that average ...
Social Sciences
Apr 25, 2012
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The chief executive of Amobee, the US mobile advertising start-up recently acquired by Singapore Telecom (SingTel), said Wednesday the company is set to aggressively expand its Asian operations.
Business
Apr 25, 2012
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From humble beginnings, Islamic finance is now a trillion dollar industry and growing at a rate some in the West find alarming. A new analysis suggests it can be accommodated by the existing global financial system for everyone’s ...
Economics & Business
Apr 25, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- After nearly a year and a half of operations, CryoSat has yielded its first seasonal variation map of Arctic sea-ice thickness. Results from ESA’s ice mission were presented today at the Royal Society in ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 25, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- A bright ball of light traveling east to west was seen over the skies of central/northern California Sunday morning, April 22. The former space rock-turned-flaming-meteor entered Earth's atmosphere around 8 ...
Space Exploration
Apr 25, 2012
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