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Really?: The Claim: Magnetic Therapy Can Ease Arthritis Pain.

28 min ago from NY Times Health

Do magnetic straps and bracelets do anything to relieve join pain?

Takeover Titan Samuel Heyman Dead At 70

1 hour ago from C&EN

Obituary: Well-known corporate raider in the chemicals sector passes away after open heart surgery.

Commercialization of new solar technology to boost solar efficiency

2 hours ago from Physorg

A pioneer in solar power in the 1990s before it became "sexy," University of Houston Professor Alex Freundlich recently entered into a collaborative research agreement with U.K.-based start-up QuantaSol for...

Scientists seek safe carbon dioxide storage for 'greener' power generation (w/ Video)

3 hours ago from Physorg

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced plans to fund research at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Engineering on technologies that would help reduce greenhouse...

Wet ethanol production process yields more ethanol and more co-products

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Using a wet ethanol production method that begins by soaking corn kernels rather than grinding them, results in more gallons of ethanol and more usable co-products, giving ethanol producers a...

Strontium 84 -- just right for forming a Bose-Einstein condensate

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Two independent teams have, for the first time, created Bose-Einstein condensates of strontium atoms. The ability to cool strontium to very low temperatures and control its motion could lead to...

Ideal nanoparticle cancer therapies surf the bloodstream

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Eric Shaqfeh studies blood at Stanford University, using computer models that simulate how the fluid and the cells it contains move around. On November 11 at a meeting of the...

New transparent insulating film could enable energy-efficient displays

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Johns Hopkins materials scientists have found a new use for a chemical compound that has traditionally been viewed as an electrical conductor, a substance that allows electricity to flow through...

RIT scholars explore the impact of imaging on our reality

4 hours ago from Physorg

Imaging is the use of machines to enhance humans' ability to perceive things, often by producing visible phenomena that cannot be seen with the naked eye. But, can imaging technology...

Solar Cells with LEDs Provide Inexpensive Lighting

5 hours ago from Physorg

(PhysOrg.com) -- Of the 1.5 billion people in developing countries who do not have electricity, many rely on kerosene lamps for light after the sun goes down. But now, researchers...

Laser creates record-breaking protons

5 hours ago from Physics World

High-energy protons could yield compact source for cancer therapy

Green Dream: Custom-Made Aluminum Windows Save Money and Energy

6 hours ago from PopSci

Plus: four more green windows and doors for retrofitting your own home With the efficient pre-fab panels that make up the walls of my home, it’s vital that I don’t let all...

Microscopic springs made from nanotube composite

7 hours ago from Chemistry World

US researchers make millimetre-sized springs from carbon nanotube-enriched polymers, using UV light to set the shapes in place

Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian H-bomb developer, dead at 93

10 hours ago from CBC: Technology & Science

Vitaly Ginzburg, a Nobel-prize winning Russian physicist and one of the fathers of Soviet hydrogen bomb, has died in Moscow. He was 93.

Peckish bird briefly downs big atom smasher

11 hours ago from Physorg

A peckish bird briefly knocked out part of the world's biggest atom smasher by causing a chain reaction with a piece of bread, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN)...

UK to embrace nuclear - Miliband

12 hours ago from BBC News: Science & Nature

Ed Miliband says the UK cannot "say no" to nuclear power as he is to unveil plans to fast-track a new generation of reactors.

Dounreay 50th anniversary marked

13 hours ago from BBC News: Science & Nature

The moment a Scottish nuclear power complex began generating energy from uranium 50 years ago is recalled.

New Plastic Optical Fiber Technology May Revolutionize High Speed Last-mile Communication Networks

18 hours ago from Science Daily

It may look like little more than fishing line, but plastic optical fiber or POF promises to revolutionize high-speed last-mile communications networks.

Super-fast Quantum Computer Gets Ever Closer: Quantum Particles Pinned Down

18 hours ago from Science Daily

Researchers have succeeded in getting hold of the environment of a quantum particle. This allows them to exercise greater control over a single electron, and brings the team of researchers...

Science Weekly podcast: The sacking of Professor David Nutt and we relive the LHC emergency

21 hours ago from The Guardian - Science

We look at the sacking of the government's chief drugs adviser David Nutt. It came a day after he claimed ecstasy and LSD were less dangerous than alcohol. We ask what role...

Video: The Future Of Noise

1 day ago from CBSNews - Science

Most of us are trying to avoid all the noise around us, while some are paying good money for all things loud. To find out what's next in this sonic...

Why Physicists Like Ratios

1 day ago from Scientific Blogging

A good part of basic research in fundamental physics focuses on the definition, the prediction, and the measurement of quantities which put the current theory -the standard model- to the...

Scheme 'can cut extra emissions'

A new business scheme could slash energy bills and cut carbon emissions by 50% more than anticipated, a study will claim.

Signature of antimatter detected in lightning

3 days ago from Sciencenews.org

Fermi telescope finds evidence of positrons, not just electrons, in storms on Earth

Weather-sensitive architectural skins integrate form with function

3 days ago from Physorg

Buildings typically provide shelter from the elements, but one Ryerson University researcher thinks structures ought to relate more to the environment instead. To this end, she has created architectural "skins,"...

Loss of senior chemist throws further doubt on future of UK drugs council

3 days ago from Chemistry World

Former ACMD senior chemist Les King would join new independent drugs committee set up by dismissed scientist David Nutt

Playing with ‘Russian-doll’ fullerenes

3 days ago from Chemistry World

Chinese chemists make ‘Russian-doll’-style fullerenes, containing three distinct molecules trapped within one another

Silver coating gets gold star

3 days ago from Chemistry World

Scientists from the UK are waging war on hospital ‘superbugs’ with a highly effective antimicrobial organo-silver coating