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Energy & Green Tech Mar 11, 2014

NREL examines solar policy pathways for states

The Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has published a report that aligns solar policy and market success with state demographics. By organizing the 48 contiguous states into four peer groups ...

Cell & Microbiology Feb 26, 2014

Understanding the fundamental metabolic workings of a cell in a changing environment

Fungal geneticist Scott Baker rifles through a stack of petri dishes housed in a small refrigerator at EMSL. He selects a plate dotted with white cauliflower-shaped colonies of fungus, punctuated by one brazen smudge that ...

Social Sciences Feb 7, 2014

A linguistic mystery yields clues in Russian

When it comes to numbers, Russian grammar has a bewildering thicket of rules. A singular noun such as "table" ("stol" in Russian), used as the subject of a sentence, takes a special "case form" called the nominative singular. ...

Engineering Feb 6, 2014

Goddard's storied tradition potentially expanded through 3-D manufacturing

For the past two years, the Internal Research and Development, or IRAD, program at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., has awarded funding to a small number of researchers who are investigating how the agency ...

Space Exploration Jan 30, 2014

Curiosity Mars rover checking possible smoother route

(Phys.org) —The team operating NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is considering a path across a small sand dune to reach a favorable route to science destinations.

Consumer & Gadgets Jan 9, 2014

Tech review: GPS gadgets let you track your kid, elderly loved one or car

We've all seen news alerts for missing senior citizens. Sometimes those have a happy outcome, and other times they don't.

Social Sciences Jan 6, 2014

The science message is out there, so how do we get people to listen?

There are many who lament the poor state of affairs of science communication in Australia. Some commentators wonder why there is still so much controversy about climate change, genetically modified crops, homoeopathy, vaccination ...

Internet Dec 8, 2013

Indian government wakes up to risk of Hotmail, Gmail

Worried by US spying revelations, India has begun drawing up a new email policy to help secure government communications, but the man responsible for drafting the rules still regularly uses Hotmail.

Nanomaterials Dec 6, 2013

Coal yields plenty of graphene quantum dots

The prospect of turning coal into fluorescent particles may sound too good to be true, but the possibility exists, thanks to scientists at Rice University.

Condensed Matter Dec 5, 2013

Nonlinear light-generating zero-index metamaterial created

(Phys.org) —The Information Age will get a major upgrade with the arrival of quantum processors many times faster and more powerful than today's supercomputers. For the benefits of this new Information Age 2.0 to be fully ...

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