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Really?: The Claim: Magnetic Therapy Can Ease Arthritis Pain.
Do magnetic straps and bracelets do anything to relieve join pain?
Takeover Titan Samuel Heyman Dead At 70
Obituary: Well-known corporate raider in the chemicals sector passes away after open heart surgery.
Commercialization of new solar technology to boost solar efficiency
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
(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
High-energy protons could yield compact source for cancer therapy
Green Dream: Custom-Made Aluminum Windows Save Money and Energy
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Fermi telescope finds evidence of positrons, not just electrons, in storms on Earth
Weather-sensitive architectural skins integrate form with function
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
Former ACMD senior chemist Les King would join new independent drugs committee set up by dismissed scientist David Nutt
Playing with ‘Russian-doll’ fullerenes
Chinese chemists make ‘Russian-doll’-style fullerenes, containing three distinct molecules trapped within one another
Silver coating gets gold star
Scientists from the UK are waging war on hospital ‘superbugs’ with a highly effective antimicrobial organo-silver coating