Pond Scum: Fueling Our Future?
Utah State University researchers are using an innovative approach that takes oil from algae and converts it to biodiesel fuel.
Utah State University researchers are using an innovative approach that takes oil from algae and converts it to biodiesel fuel.
Jan 30, 2007
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A new cosmological model demonstrates the universe can endlessly expand and contract, providing a rival to Big Bang theories and solving a thorny modern physics problem, according to University of North Carolina at Chapel ...
General Physics
Jan 30, 2007
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A bipartisan group of 20 U.S. senators is asking the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to suspend plans to consolidate laboratories.
Other
Jan 30, 2007
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Most snakes are born with poisonous bites they use for defense. But what can non-poisonous snakes do to ward off predators?
Jan 30, 2007
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Engineers at UC San Diego have built a powerful yet ultrathin digital camera by folding up the telephoto lens. This technology may yield lightweight, ultrathin, high resolution miniature cameras for unmanned surveillance ...
General Physics
Jan 30, 2007
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University of Florida engineering student Maria Palazuelos is working on nanotechnology, but she's not seeking a better sunscreen, tougher golf club or other product — the focus of many engineers in the field.
Bio & Medicine
Jan 30, 2007
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Scientists are able to view active molecules within a biological motor of the nanometer scale with the help of a new imaging system far more sensitive and powerful than existing optical microscopes.
Bio & Medicine
Jan 30, 2007
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The first of three spacewalks in nine days by International Space Station Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria and Flight Engineer Sunita Williams is scheduled to begin Wednesday at 10 a.m. EST.
Space Exploration
Jan 30, 2007
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If you could paint a gallon of paint one nanometer thick, how much area could you cover? The surprising answer-about 930 acres, or slightly larger than New York's Central Park-certainly makes fun trivia fodder.
Bio & Medicine
Jan 30, 2007
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The University of Aberdeen Zoology Museum (UK) has taken care of a case of mounted Australian birds, one of which is the spectacular but sadly extinct Paradise Parrot Psephotus pulcherrimus.
Jan 30, 2007
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