Chemical engineering experts at The University of Nottingham have helped a team of international researchers find a way of producing inexpensive renewable liquid fuel out of low grade oils made from renewable products such ...
Energy & Green Tech
Nov 30, 2010
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New research using a world leading motorcycle simulator to analyse rider behaviour has proved that safer doesn’t necessarily mean slower and that formal advanced training for bikers can demonstrate improved safety on ...
Other
Nov 30, 2010
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SanDisk, Nikon and Sony today announced the joint development of a set of specifications that addresses the future requirements of professional photography and video markets. The three companies proposed the specifications ...
Hardware
Nov 30, 2010
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A consortium led by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is developing methods for monitoring tropical forests using satellite data in a project funded by the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission. The objective ...
Environment
Nov 30, 2010
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The resumes of "attractive" males received a 19.9 percent response rate, nearly 50 percent higher than the 13.7 percent response rate for "plain" males and more than twice the 9.2 percent response rate of no-picture males. ...
Social Sciences
Nov 30, 2010
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Geo-microbiologists from Arizona State University have solved a long-standing conundrum about how some photosynthetic microorganisms, endolithic cyanobacteria, bore their way into limestone, sand grains, mussel shells, coral ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 30, 2010
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Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem who have been examining what happens in a "model earthquake" in their laboratory have discovered that basic assumptions about friction that have been accepted for hundreds ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 30, 2010
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WikiLeaks said in a Twitter message on Tuesday that it was under a new cyber attack after a similar incident at the weekend just before the website began releasing secret US diplomatic cables.
Internet
Nov 30, 2010
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One of the holy grails of nanotechnology in medicine is to control individual structures and processes inside a cell. Nanoparticles are well suited for this purpose because of their small size; they can also be engineered ...
Nanomaterials
Nov 30, 2010
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Scientists are calling for radical new approaches to conservation following the first biodiversity audit of its kind.
Ecology
Nov 30, 2010
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