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Some Alaskan Trout Use Flexible Guts for the Ultimate Binge Diet
March 20, 2013 — The stomach and intestines of certain trout double to quadruple in size during month-long eating binges in Alaska each August. The rest of the year, the fish live off their reserves and their ... > full story -
Hydrogen Fuel? Thin Films of Nickel and Iron Oxides Yield Efficient Solar Water-Splitting Catalyst
March 20, 2013 — Chemists say that ultra-thin films of nickel and iron oxides made through a solution synthesis process are promising catalysts to combine with semiconductors to make devices that capture sunlight and ... > full story -
Measuring Mercury: Common Test May Overestimate Exposure from Dental Amalgam Fillings
March 20, 2013 — A common test used to determine mercury exposure from dental amalgam fillings may significantly overestimate the amount of the toxic metal released from fillings, according to ... > full story -
Multi-Purpose Wonder Can Generate Hydrogen, Produce Clean Water and Even Provide Energy
March 20, 2013 — A new wonder material can generate hydrogen, produce clean water and even provide energy. Science fiction? Hardly, and there's more -- It can also desalinate water, be used as flexible water ... > full story -
Mechanical Forces Play Major Role in Regulating Cells
March 19, 2013 — Researchers have for the first time shown that mechanical forces can control the depolymerization of actin, a protein critical to cells. The research suggests that forces applied externally and ... > full story -
Fantastic Flash Memory Combines Graphene and Molybdenite
March 19, 2013 — Scientists have combined two materials with advantageous electronic properties -- graphene and molybdenite -- into a flash memory prototype that is very promising in terms of performance, size, ... > full story -
Electrons Are Not Enough: Cuprate Superconductors Defy Convention
March 19, 2013 — To engineers, it's a tale as old as time: Electrical current is carried through materials by flowing electrons. But physicists have now found that for copper-containing superconductors, known as ... > full story -
Oxygen-Poor 'Boring' Ocean Challenged Evolution of Early Life
March 18, 2013 — Biogeochemists have filled in a billion-year gap in our understanding of conditions in the early ocean during a critical time in life's history on Earth. During the period 1.8 to 0.8 billion years ... > full story -
Negative-Charge Carrying Molecular Structures Created
March 18, 2013 — Chemists have synthesized organic molecular structures that move both positive and negative electrical charges -- a highly desired but often difficult combination to achieve in current efforts to ... > full story -
Swarm Intelligence: New Collective Properties of Swarm Dynamics Uncovered
March 15, 2013 — A new study of animal swarms uncovers some new features of their collective behavior when overcrowding sets in. Swarming is the spontaneous organized motion of a large number of individuals. It is ... > full story
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