Weighing the Ocean: Solving the biggest problem in sea level science
(Phys.org)—Oceanographers from Newcastle and Liverpool have thought of a novel way to measure the ocean – weigh it.
Earth Sciences
Sep 7, 2012
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Needle beam could eliminate signal loss in on-chip optics
(Phys.org)—An international, Harvard-led team of researchers have demonstrated a new type of light beam that propagates without spreading outwards, remaining very narrow and controlled along an unprecedented distance. This ...
Optics & Photonics
Sep 7, 2012
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Metop-B weather satellite is ready for launch
Metop-B, the European polar orbiting weather satellite, designed and manufactured by Astrium, is now ready to launch from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Space Exploration
Sep 7, 2012
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Towards computing with water droplets—superhydrophobic droplet logic
Researchers at Aalto University, Finland, have developed a new concept for computing, using water droplets as bits of digital information. This was enabled by the discovery that upon collision with each other on a highly ...
General Physics
Sep 7, 2012
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Malay Archipelago bat not one, but two species
Genetic studies of Myotis muricola, otherwise known as the Wall-roosting Mouse-eared bat or Nepalese Whiskered Myotis , suggest that it consists of not one, but two distinct species.
Plants & Animals
Sep 7, 2012
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Space Image: The Italian Boot
(Phys.org)—This oblique, night time panorama of much of Europe was photographed by one of the Expedition 32 crew members aboard the International Space Station flying approximately 240 miles above the Mediterranean Sea ...
Space Exploration
Sep 7, 2012
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Supreme Court mystery unlocked from BYU's vaults 75 years later
(Phys.org)—The explanation for a Supreme Court justice's motivations in one of the most mysterious and important decisions in U.S. history has been hiding deep in the vaults of BYU's Special Collections.
Other
Sep 7, 2012
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Could ancient Egyptians hold the key to 3D printed ceramics?
(Phys.org)—A 7,000 year old technique, known as Egyptian Paste (also known as Faience), could offer a potential process and material for use in the latest 3D printing techniques of ceramics, according to researchers at ...
Engineering
Sep 7, 2012
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The controlled cell
(Phys.org)—An interdisciplinary effort at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) addressed the question of how mRNA content, which is translated into proteins, is regulated in the cell. Supported ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 7, 2012
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MSU researchers develop temperature-tolerant enzymes for advancing genetic manipulation tools
Researchers at Montana State University have found a method for creating more robust, temperature-tolerant enzymes that can be used as tools in the process of genetic manipulation.
Biotechnology
Sep 7, 2012
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