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Iran 'ready' to suspend uranium enrichment if assured of import
TEHRAN, July 29 (UPI) -- Iran's atomic energy chief Thursday offered to suspend an ongoing uranium enrichment program for its Tehran research reactor if the country was assured of...
UK nanotech centres 'may be axed'
Britain's 24 nanotechnology centres could be among the casualties of cuts to the UK science budget, science minister David Willetts has said.
Does the sun hold a dark secret?
(PhysOrg.com) -- A scientist at Royal Holloway, University of London believes dark matter is lurking at the centre of the sun and cooling down its core temperature.
Drilling down to the nanometer depths of leaves for biofuels
By imaging the cell walls of a zinnia leaf down to the nanometer scale, energy researchers have a better idea about how to turn plants into biofuels. A team has...
UT researchers: English ivy may give sunblock a makeover
Nanoparticles in ivy may hold the key to making sunscreen safer and more effective...
Demonstration project to store CO2 underground in China
CSIRO (Australia) is partnering with China United Coalbed Methane Corporation Limited (CUCBM) on a A$10 million joint demonstration project that will store 2000 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) underground in...
Polymer synthesis could aid future electronics
Tomorrow's television and computer screens could be brighter, clearer and more energy-efficient as a result of a process developed by a team of researchers from Canada and the Department of...
K-State researchers find gene-silencing nanoparticles may put end to pesky summer pest
Summer just wouldn't be complete without mosquitoes nipping at exposed skin. Or would it?...
Colourimetric sensor detects pesticide toxins
Cheap and easy to use paper-based dipstick test changes colour to indicate presence of pesticides
Designing porous patterns
Understanding how molecules behave at the solid-liquid interface has allowed chemists to create useful porous patterns on surfaces
A plane that lands like a bird
Everyone knows what it's like for an airplane to land: the slow maneuvering into an approach pattern, the long descent, and the brakes slamming on as soon as the plane touches down,...
Video: Probing Potential Oil Seepage
Carol Browner, the White House's chief advisor on energy, spoke with Harry Smith on the concerns over whether the flow of oil has completely stopped and the possibility of oil...
Zero to 1,050 mph in 42 Seconds
Full-Size Mockup of Supersonic Car Designed to Reach Mach 1.4 Unveiled at U.K. Airshow; Engine Tests Deemed Success
First Soft X-rays Explore Ultrafast Magnetic Behaviors
(PhysOrg.com) -- The first user experiments on the Soft X-ray instrument at the Linac Coherent Light Source wrapped up last week. Research led by Andreas Scherz, a physicist at the...
Porous diamonds made in the lab
Diamonds full of microscopic pores have been made in the lab by a team of U.S. and Canadian researchers, who believe they could be used as a material for extra-robust...
Lessening the Penalty for Creating Block Copolymer Nanostructures
How do you make a material that has the elasticity of a rubber band and the thermal insulation of a Styrofoam cup? Connect two distinct polymer chains - poly(isoprene) and...
Bridging the gender gap
A team led by a Northwestern University biomedical engineer has found that combining novel optical technologies with a common colon cancer screening test may allow doctors to more accurately detect...
Advance made toward communication, computing at ‘terahertz’ speeds
CORVALLIS, Ore. — Physicists in the United States and Germany have discovered a way to use a gallium arsenide nanodevice as a signal processor at “terahertz” speeds, the first...
Liar! fMRI Could Provide New Form of Lie Detection
Some companies are betting that functional magnetic resonance imaging could provide a new, high-tech form of lie detection.
Microbial world's use of metals mostly unmapped
Microbes boast a broader and more diverse array of metal-driven chemical processes than scientists imagined. In fact, most have yet to be discovered, according to a first-of-its-kind technique that catalogs...
Pitt team designs artificial cells that communicate and cooperate like biological cells, ants
PITTSBURGH — Inspired by the social interactions of ants and slime molds, University of Pittsburgh engineers have designed artificial cells capable of self-organizing into independent groups...
Thin-Film Solar Cells: New Insights into the Indium/Gallium Puzzle
Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU, Germany) have made a major breakthrough in their search for more efficient thin-film solar cells. Computer simulations designed to investigate the so-called indium/gallium...
CERN Physicists To Build Longest-Ever Linear Particle Accelerator
Z+Higgs A simulation of what the decay of a Z + Higgs to four jets would look like in a proposed International Linear Accelerator detector. Norman Graf/ILCMove over, LHC -- the ILC...
Adaptation in mole blood aids tunnelling
'Super hemoglobin' allows moles to thrive underground. Researchers have made the first identification of an adaptation in the blood of Eastern moles which allows more efficient transport of carbon dioxide,...
A Magnetic Remote Control That Can Rewind A Worm's Wriggle
The power to control living things and objects from a distance is a popular supernatural talent in science fiction and fantasy: Witches fling spells at foes and X-Men send chairs...
Crystal clear: Eureka! moment leads to major breakthroughs in structural biology
(PhysOrg.com) -- Tuning out the noise of fellow passengers and the incessant hum of the turbojet engine, Lin Chen pored voraciously over the pages of James Watson's The Double Helix....
Nanomaterials Researcher Working to Improve Nuclear Efficiency
(PhysOrg.com) -- With renewed attention being given to nuclear power, a UT Dallas researcher has snagged an $875,000 Department of Energy (DOE) grant to explore a means to boost power...
Moving Forward On Algal Biofuels
Alternative Energy: ExxonMobil, Synthetic Genomics facility will help optimize algal fuel production.