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Hydrogen + corncobs (with a splash of boron) = fuel of the future?
The next alternative fuel in a vehicle's tank might be nothing more than gas with a little help from corn. However, instead of the usual petroleum-based fuel, this gas will...
Mayo Clinic uses RFID to reduce errors
ROCHESTER, Minn., Oct. 8 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists at the Mayo Clinic say they are using radio frequency identification, a technology known as RFID, to reduce lab specimen...
Fuzziness On The Road To Physics' Grand Unification Theory
Leave it to hypothesized gravity to weigh down what physicists have thought for 30 years. If theoretical physicists are right, the idea that nature's forces merge under grand unification has...
Geothermal Energy Gathering Steam
An unusual combination of economic and environmental forces have created a "perfect storm" that could help geothermal shed its back-seat status to its renewable cousins wind and solar energy.
Long-Lasting Quantum Memory Leads to Long-Distance Quantum Communication
(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists have taken a step closer to realizing long-distance quantum communication, in which a quantum state is transferred from one location to another by becoming entangled with a...
'Chemical fingerprint' to end art forgery
A forensic scientist has developed an invisible 'chemical fingerprinting' technique that can be applied to both new and old paintings in order to stop art forgery.
Zooming Way In, Technique Offers Close-ups Of Electrons, Nuclei
Providing a glimpse into the infinitesimal, physicists have found a novel way of spying on some of the universe's tiniest building blocks. Their "camera" consists of a special "flaw" in...
Scientists develop solar cells with a twist
CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. researchers have found a way to make efficient silicon-based solar cells that are flexible enough to be rolled around a pencil and transparent enough to be...
Outshining Edison: New NSF Engineering Research Center To Advance "Smart Lighting"
A new research center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, funded by a five-year, $18.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation, aims to supplant the common light bulb with next-generation lighting...
Nanoscopic screening process to speed drug discovery
Researchers at Wake Forest University are using nanotechnology to search for new cancer-fighting drugs through a process that could be up to 10,000 times faster than current methods.
CERN openlab boosts the performance of LHC computing
The LHC Grid Fest, held last Friday at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, and at several sites around the world, commemorated the readiness of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG). At...
The Race For The Electric Car
The race to develop and build the first viable, affordable electric car is on, as Silicon Valley has gotten into the game. And as Lesley Stahl reports, Detroit is taking...
Anabolic Steroids Provide A Competitive Edge In Power Lifting Years After Doping Has Ended
Steroid use has been suspected in sports where building muscle strength, rather than endurance, is paramount. Power lifting is such a sport. Researchers have examined the impact of anabolic steroid...
Scientists create new kind of CO2 scrubber
CALGARY, Alberta, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Scientists at the University of Calgary say they have developed a technology to capture carbon dioxide gas directly from the air.
Immune System For Electronics? Electronics That Can Diagnose And Heal Themselves Under Development
Researchers are working to create electronic systems that can diagnose and heal their own faults in ways similar to the human immune system. The project is called SABRE (Self-healing cellular...
100 Years Of Ammonia Synthesis: How A Single Patent Changed The World
Now it is time to invent sustainable solutions to avoid environmental damage. As a result of the Haber-Bosch process for the synthesis of ammonia from atmospheric nitrogen, billions of people...
New Graphene-based Material Clarifies Graphite Oxide Chemistry
A new "graphene-based" material that helps solve the structure of graphite oxide and could lead to other potential discoveries of the one-atom thick substance called graphene, which has applications in...
'Viscous shear' wears down sound waves
Honeycomb material offers new way of silencing aircraft
Playing Pinball with Atoms
With nanotechnology yielding a burgeoning menagerie of microscopic pumps, motors, and other machines for potential use in medicine and industry, here is one good question: How will humans turn those...
Diamonds engage at the nano scale
Manipulating the quantum properties of diamond impurities is a step closer to quantum computing, finer-scale microscopes.
A Trip Inside The "Big Bang Machine"
Steve Kroft gets an inside look at one of the biggest science experiments ever: the Large Hadron Collider, which sits 300 feet below Switzerland cost $8 billion to build.
The Power Of Pond Scum
A bioreactor of clear plastic tubes in the Netherlands is producing algae in pressure-cooker fashion that its manufacturer hopes will one day power jet aircraft.
Ig Nobels Honor Studies of Lap Dancing, Soft Drink-Based Contraception
Comic take on Nobels awarded to 10 research teams, amid flying paper airplanes
Hull hospital operating rooms to close for at least 1 week
Four out of five operating rooms at the Hull hospital in Gatineau will be closed for at least a week starting Monday at noon.
New Organic Catalyst Should Improve Drug Development, Lower Costs
(PhysOrg.com) -- Chemists at Oregon State University have developed a new “organocatalyst” that will play a major role in new drug development, greatly reducing costs while making the process more...
An 'electric' future for Formula 1 gearboxes?
Bristol University student, Niall Oswald, has won the e2v Award for the Best Electronic Engineering Student at the 2008 Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) Awards for his final-year research project,...
Sugar-powered electronics
Japanese scientists have made a biofuel cell that produces enough power to run an mp3 player or a remote controlled car
Nanotube catalysts improve industrial reaction
Modified nanotubes catalyse milder, safer and more selective butadiene synthesis