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Second Wind for Hydrogen In the Eco-car Race?
Electric Eco-cars Have Not Yet Won The Race; Hydrogen-powered Engines May Make A Comeback
New cell measurement system
Using a sensor that weighs cells with unprecedented precision, researchers have measured the rate at which single cells accumulate mass -- a feat that could shed light on how cells...
Charge breeder breaks world record for efficiency
Scientists have pushed the limits of charge breeding and broken a long-standing world record for ionization efficiency of solids.
Negative mass and high speed: How electrons go their own ways
Physicists report that electrons in semiconductor crystals have a negative inertial mass when strongly accelerated in an electric field.
Random, but not by chance: A quantum random-number generator for encryption, security
Random number sequences are essential to a host of encryption schemes. But true randomness in the strict sense is not possible in the classical world; it only occurs in quantum-mechanical...
Large Hadron Collider could reveal our origins
The biggest science machine ever built has begun churning out the smallest known bits of matter in the universe. Its goal is to uncover some of the deepest, long-hidden secrets...
First images of spotted leopard captured in Malaysia
Researchers said Sunday they have captured the first images of a spotted leopard in Malaysia, putting to rest a decades-old debate over the existence of the endangered cat in the...
A brain-recording device that melts into place
Scientists have developed a brain implant that essentially melts into place, snugly fitting to the brain's surface. The technology could pave the way for better devices to monitor and...
How to split a water molecule
(PhysOrg.com) -- A research team at RIKEN, Japan`s flagship research organization has succeeded for the first time in selectively controlling for reaction products in the dissociation of a single water...
Electroweak Symmetry And The Chocolate Interaction
Analogies are a powerful way to explain complicated scientific concepts. I use them as much as I can whenever I describe particle physics in this blog or when I give...
New Intel Sensor Could Cut Electricity Bill
Intel unveiled new personal energy management system with a single sensor that could reduce household electricity use by one-third.
What's the (dark) matter? Physicist Peter Fisher says we may not know for 10 years
Maybe science really is back in vogue. Or maybe "dark matter" is a case of remarkably successful scientific branding--who wouldn't be drawn in by a name like that? Then again,...
New Luminosity Record At The Tevatron
This is to inform you of the new luminosity record set today by the Tevatron collider at Fermilab. The machine has been working excellently, improving its performance as the machinists...
Initiation ceremonies don't build team spirit, study finds
Team building activities in sport are carried out for tradition's sake and don't help players to bond, according to results of a new study.
Australian Synchrotron Bounces Back
The Australian Synchrotron near Melbourne is back in full operation now that staff scientists...
UD Researcher Wins NSF Early Career Award for Research on How Cells Respond to Damaged DNA
Zhihao Zhuang, assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Delaware, has won the National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Award. Zhuang's five-year,...
France, Kuwait sign nuclear power deal
PARIS, April 16 (UPI) -- France and Kuwait signed an agreement to develop nuclear energy in the Gulf country, a comeback for the French nuclear industry after it lost...
Aerosols: From Ash in the Wind to Smoke from the Stack
(PhysOrg.com) -- When we hear the word "aerosol," most of us think of spray cans and perhaps the ozone hole. But spray cans are just a very small part of...
Mixed response to UNESCO's new science appointment
The appointment of a little-known US scientist to head UNESCO's high-profile natural sciences sector is seen by some as "low key".
Stirring the ore pot with Chaos theory
(PhysOrg.com) -- Chaos theory could hold the key to making the in-situ leaching process a more effective ore extraction technique, according to a team of CSIRO Minerals Down Under Flagship...
Catching electrons in the act: Science on the attosecond scale
(PhysOrg.com) -- Understanding how to create artificial photosynthesis, or tough, flexible high-temperature superconductors, or better solar cells, or a myriad other advances, will only be possible when we have the...
Lead joins the aromatic ring club
Japanese researchers show that lead can be incorporated into an aromatic ring, the heaviest metal so far to do this
Interview: Rivalling nature
Matthew Gaunt talks about creating molecules in the lab with the same ease as in nature and his footballing ambitions
Ineos starts UK chemicals exodus
Ineos’s decision to relocate its operations to Switzerland may spark an exodus of chemicals companies from the UK
Black-hole like effect in nanotube and the possibility of new matter states
(PhysOrg.com) -- `For the first time, fields of study relating both to cold atoms and to the nanoscale have intersected,` Lene Vestergaard Hau tells PhysOrg.com. `Even though both have been...
U.S. faces crisis in rare earth materials
WASHINGTON, April 16 (UPI) -- Reliance on China for rare earth materials and a lack of U.S. mining capacity is creating a crisis in terms of U.S. national defense,...
American partners embrace clean energy
WASHINGTON, April 16 (UPI) -- Washington and its American partners agreed to focus on energy efficiency, renewable energy and the clean use of fossil fuels, officials said.
Russia's Tatneft starts oil work in Syria
DAMASCUS, Syria, April 16 (UPI) -- Russian oil and gas company Tatneft announced it started crude oil production in Syria, the first time such work commenced for the company...