The Department of Energy announced today that 24 million hours of supercomputing time out of a total of 1.6 billion available hours at Argonne and Oak Ridge National Laboratories have been awarded to investigate materials ...
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Jan 27, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Portable e-readers such as the Kindle are unlikely to win readers back to the newspaper habit unless they include features such color, photographs and touch screens, according to research conducted at the ...
Social Sciences
Jan 27, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A study by Cornell sociologist Matthew Brashears finds that happiness comes from having firmly held beliefs and being around people who affirm those beliefs.
Social Sciences
Jan 27, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Studying pollen tubes, University of Massachusetts Amherst plant cell biologist Peter Hepler and colleagues have captured some of the fastest growing tissues known, on camera for the first time, to advance ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 27, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A deadly fish virus - viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus - first discovered in the Northeast in 2005, has been found for the first time in Lake Superior. The virus is now in all of the Great Lakes.
Ecology
Jan 27, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Before you get caught up in the romance of Valentine's Day, take a moment to consider your sweetheart's financial health, says a Purdue University personal finance expert.
Social Sciences
Jan 27, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The independent National Equality Panel, in its report entitled An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in the UK, which is published today (27 January), argues that policy interventions are needed at each life-cycle ...
Social Sciences
Jan 27, 2010
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There is some discrepancy among the scientific community as to the situation of reservoirs in Spain, one of the countries with the greatest water stress in Europe. For this purpose, a team of researchers has surveyed experts ...
Environment
Jan 27, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new approach in the design of miniature, insectlike robots could lead to "microids" the size of ants that move their tiny legs and mandibles using solid-state "muscles."
Engineering
Jan 27, 2010
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NASA's plans to return astronauts to the moon are dead. So are the rockets being designed to take them there -- that is, if President Barack Obama gets his way.
Space Exploration
Jan 27, 2010
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