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Orange peels, newspapers may lead to cheaper, cleaner ethanol fuel
Scientists may have just made the breakthrough of a lifetime, turning discarded fruit peels and other throwaways into cheap, clean fuel to power the world's vehicles...
Cosmic Log: Get paid to plug in
Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: Someday, someone will pay you to hook your car into the electrical grid — a business opportunity enabled by the expected rise of plug-in vehicles. ...
Electric power execs lean toward nuclear
OVERLAND PARK, Kan., Feb. 19 (UPI) -- A survey of American electric power industry leaders reflects the impact of the weak economy and shows their support for nuclear energy.
Life's smallest motor, cargo carrier of the cells, moves like a seesaw
Life's smallest motor -- a protein that shuttles cargo within cells and helps cells divide -- does so by rocking up and down like a seesaw according to new high-resolution...
Electric avenue: Electric cars on a two-way street?
Think of it as the end of cars' slacker days: no more sitting idle for hours in parking lots or garages racking up payments, but instead earning their keep by...
Smart Grid could re-energize an aging system
At 5 p.m. after a long day's work, you drive your plug-in electric car to your garage. The car's battery is fairly full because you drove little today. You plug...
Battlefield camaraderie yields long-term dividends for veterans, study finds
The benefits of wartime camaraderie extend far beyond the battlefield, a new UCLA study of U.S. Civil War veterans suggests. Veterans who served in military units characterized by a...
Nanodiamonds Produce 'Game Changing Event' for MRI Imaging Sensitivity
A Northwestern University study shows that coupling a widely used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agent to a nanodiamond results in dramatically enhanced signal intensity and thus vivid image contrast....
First NMR Signal of a Copper Site in Azurin Obtained
(PhysOrg.com) -- Metalloproteins, such as the copper-containing azurin, play a major role in catalyzing electron transfer in cellular reactions. Understanding how their structure relates to function can give rise to...
Stitching together 'lab-on-a-chip' devices with cotton thread and sewing needles
Scientists in Australia are reporting the first use of ordinary cotton thread and sewing needles to literally stitch together a microfluidic analytical device - microscopic technology that can transport...
Super-sensitive chemical sensor envisioned
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Feb. 18 (UPI) -- U.S. government researchers say they are developing a chemical and biological sensor that will have unprecedented sensitivity.
Everyday grass could provide green fuel
A five-year research project has come up with a way of generating green energy from a humble everyday grass.
Advance in artificial tendons
Japanese scientists have engineered three dimensional replacement tendon tissue using fibrin gel
When molecules leave tire tracks
Certain types of molecules form patterns when deposited onto substrates. Photovoltaic and sensor devices from organic compounds depend on this phenomenon of self-organization. Physicists have now developed a model that...
Kutcher To Twitter Fans From Russia
Ashton Kutcher To Outsource Building Russia's Silicon Valley To His Twitter Fans
Meigan Aronson Named Department of Defense Security Fellow
Meigan Aronson, a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Stony Brook University, has been selected...
TNK-BP could lose gas field license
MOSCOW, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- An environmental watchdog in Russia announced energy venture TNK-BP could lose its license to develop a Siberian gas field because of contract violations.
Optimization server reaches 2 million milestone
NEOS, the Network-Enabled Optimization System developed by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory in conjunction with Northwestern University, has reached a...
Can graphene nanoribbons replace silicon?
(PhysOrg.com) -- "Graphene has been the subject of intense focus and research for a few years now," Philip Kim tells PhysOrg.com. "There are researchers that feel that it is possible...
Toshiba introduces new small form factor enterprise HDD line
Toshiba Corp. today announced a new high-performance, low-power HDD product line for enterprise applications that draws on synergies achieved by the integration of Fujitsu's enterprise-directed magnetic drive business into Toshiba...
New wheelchair gets its first real-world test
The U.N. Development Programme estimates that less than 1 percent of the need for wheelchairs in developing countries is met by local production, partly because small workshops can’t exploit economies of scale to...
Boring Science Produces Awesome Results
Boring Science Produces Awesome results The simple scientific observation that you can't use the same energy twice is absolutely awesome! This is a further article in my occasional series about coal, engines...
Future of Hydrogen Fuel Flows Through New NIST Test Facility
If hydrogen is ever to play a significant role as a clean, everyday energy source, it will need a safe and reliable distribution system. To pave the way for a...
First physics from the Large Hadron Collider's CMS detector
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists working on the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC have just published results of the first analysis of data from the highest energy particle collisions ever carried...
Plane Crash Kills 3 Tesla Motors Employees
A plane crash in California has killed three employees of Tesla Motors, the electric car venture led by private spaceflight pioneer Elon Musk, according to local news reports.
FSU professor to receive award
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Feb. 17 (UPI) -- Florida State University says Professor Naresh Dalal has been selected to receive the 2010 Silver Medal for Physics/Materials Science.
Chicago EV Charging Station Powered by Wind
(PhysOrg.com) -- The "Windy City" is about to make use of that natural source of power, thanks to the addition of an electric vehicle (EV) charging station. Last year, Chicago...
New method makes vaccines stable at tropical temperatures
A simple and cheap way of making vaccines stable - even at tropical temperatures - has been developed by scientists at Oxford University and Nova Bio-Pharma Technologies.