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Psychiatry: When The Mirror Becomes An Enemy
A nose that's too big, hair that's too curly or a beauty mark in the wrong place -- who hasn't focused on a small detail of their appearance while staring...
Many cyclists safer than few
Researchers have found that cyclists are less likely to collide with a car when there are more cyclists around – motorists seem to adapt to deal with the bike traffic.
Particle smasher begins Big Bang experiment
Scientists around the world celebrate the tests at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva. 'We will be unlocking the secrets of the universe,' one physicist says. ...
Tracking Down The Menace In Mexico City Smog
Chemical scientists have shown that, bad as the traffic is, the most harmful air pollution in Mexico City may not come from burning fossil fuels. Instead the culprit may be...
Hotline To The Cowshed
A wireless measuring system, consisting of sensors and transmission units, helps to keep livestock healthier with a minimum use of resources.
Bottoms Up: Better Organic Semiconductors For Printable Electronics
Researchers have learned how to tweak a new class of polymer-based semiconductors to better control the location and alignment of the components of the blend. Their recent results could enable...
New 'Pyrex' Nanoparticle More Stable In Harsh Environments
Researchers in Switzerland have developed a new method to fabricate borosilicate glass nanoparticles. Used in microfluidic systems, these "Pyrex"-like nanoparticles are more stable when subjected to temperature fluctuations and harsh...
Colorful bacteria could spot oil spills: scientist
LONDON (Reuters) - A new technique using bacteria that lights up so it is easy to spot could help better detect pollution from oil spills and other environmental leakage, researchers...
Switchable Bio-adhesion
Researchers have developed a new type of property-changing polymer: it is water-repellent at 37 C, which makes it an ideal culture substrate for biological cells. At room temperature it attracts...
60,000 Computers Primed For Big Bang Probe
When scientists fire up the biggest physics experiment in history, they will face a task that makes finding a needle in a haystack look simple. Success in this $10 billion...
Lighting research center develops framework for assessing light pollution
The emergence of electric lighting at night nearly a century ago has positively affected countless aspects of human life, ranging from improved safety and security to stronger economic development. But...
Future nanoelectronics may face obstacles
(PhysOrg.com) -- Combining ordinary electronics with light has been a potential way to create minimal computer circuits with super fast information transfer. Researchers at Umeå University in Sweden and the...
US Air Force Technology Helps Scientists Understand Plant Root Function
Scientists have developed a non-invasive technique that uses thermal neutron attenuation to measure spatial and temporal distribution of water in soils. The study focuses on the McClellan Nuclear Radiation Center...
Scientists Await Start-up Of Large Hadron Collider
The moment that James Pilcher has been waiting for since 1994 will arrive at 1:30 a.m. CDT on Wednesday, Sept. 10, when the world's largest scientific instrument is scheduled to...
Putting The Squeeze On Nitrogen For High Energy Materials
Researchers from the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory report changes in the melting temperature of solid nitrogen at pressures up to 120 gigapascals and temperatures reaching 2,500° Kelvin. These results, plus...
Intel Introduces Solid-State Drives for Notebook and Desktop Computers
Intel Corporation announced today it has begun shipping Intel X18-M and X25-M Mainstream SATA Solid-State Drives (SSDs) based on multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash technology for laptop and desktop computers....
Nanoscopic Golden Rods
Scientists have now developed a new method for the production of nanoscopic gold rods. In contrast to previous methods, they have achieved this without the use of cytotoxic additives, using...
CERN Prepares New Atom Smasher to Near Big Bang
The most powerful atom-smasher ever built comes online Wednesday.
'Smart water' may help boost production from oil wells by 60 percent
Researchers in Norway report that injecting a special type of seawater called "smart water" into certain low-yield oil wells may help boost oil extraction by as much as 60 percent....
Could graphene replace superconductors?
(PhysOrg.com) -- “People want a faster computer chip,” Philip Kim tells PhysOrg.com. “And it needs to be smaller. But in order to increase the speed of the chip, or to...
Comets Throw Light On Solar System's Beginnings
The early solar system is commonly believed to have been formed from a cold outer region and a hot inner region, which did not exchange material. But the comet Wild-2...
Smoke Smudges Mexico City's Air, Chemists Identify Sources
Mexico City once topped lists of places with the worst air pollution in the world. Although efforts to curb emissions have improved the situation, tiny particles called aerosols still clog...
Drilling for Hot Rocks: Google Sinks Cash into Advanced Geothermal Technology
For $1 billion over the next 40 years, the U.S. could develop 100 gigawatts (a gigawatt equals one billion watts) of electricity generation that emits no air pollution and pumps...
Moo North: Cattle and Deer May Sense Earth's Magnetic Field
Forget cow tipping--next time you want to mess with a bovine friend, try waving a magnet in its face. [More]
No Fire in the Hole!: Firefighters Use Flame-Retardant Grenades
A new grenadelike gadget--designed to quickly extinguish flames in small quarters, thereby limiting injury to victims as well as firefighters--is becoming an important part of firemen's arsenals. [More]
What A Sleep Study Can Reveal About Fibromyalgia
Research engineers and sleep medicine specialists from two Michigan universities have joined technical and clinical hands to put innovative technologies to work in the sleep lab.
New concept for creating quantum states in many-body systems
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the online edition of Nature Physics, theoretical physicists from the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) and the University of Innsbruck today are presenting a...
Philadelphia museum seeks chemical attraction
For anyone whose last foray into chemistry was being forced to memorize the periodic table of elements in high school, there's new reason to take another look at a subject...