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How Do Plants Grow Toward the Light? Scientists Explain Mechanism Behind Phototropism
May 28, 2013 — Plants have developed a number of strategies to capture the maximum amount of sunlight through their leaves. As we know from looking at plants on a windowsill, they grow toward the sunlight to be ... > full story -
Colorado's New Alga May Be a Source of Biofuel Production
May 28, 2013 — A newly discovered strain of yellow-green algae has an ideal lipid profile for biofuel ... > full story -
Models from Big Molecules Captured in a Flash
May 28, 2013 — The structures of most of the two million proteins in the human body are still unknown, even at low resolution. A new algorithm solves the convoluted shapes of large molecules by using images of ... > full story -
'Preferred Retinal Location' May Aid Rehabilitation in Patients With Central Vision Loss
May 28, 2013 — Perceptual learning techniques may provide a useful new approach to rehabilitation in patients with central vision loss -- taking advantage of visual plasticity that persists even in old age, ... > full story -
Hydrogen Atoms Under the Magnifying Glass: Nodal Structures of Electronic States of Hydrogen Atom Directly Observed
May 27, 2013 — Researchers have succeeded in building a microscope that allows magnifying the wave function of excited electronic states of the hydrogen atom by a factor of more than 20,000, leading to a situation ... > full story -
Intelligent Street Lights Adapt to Conditions in Finland
May 27, 2013 — Researchers in Finland have developed a dimmable LED street light that consumes significantly less energy than current lighting systems, while improving the lighting characteristics. The street ... > full story -
Helicopter Light-Beams: New Tool for Quantum Optics
May 27, 2013 — A light wave oscillates perpendicular to its propagation direction -- that is what students learn in school. However, scientists in Austria have now performed atomic physics experiments with light ... > full story -
New Analysis Yields Improvements in a Classic 3-D Imaging Technique
May 25, 2013 — The first major image quality improvements in the history of a widely used century-old 3-D printing technique have been achieved. The technique, anaglyph printing, utilizes red-and-blue eyewear to ... > full story -
Detection of the Cosmic Gamma Ray Horizon: Measures All the Light in the Universe Since the Big Bang
May 24, 2013 — Radiation from all galaxies that ever existed suffuses the universe with a diffuse extragalactic background light (EBL). Measuring the EBL is as fundamental to cosmology as measuring heat from the ... > full story -
Atomic-Scale Investigations Solve Key Puzzle of LED Efficiency
May 23, 2013 — From the high-resolution glow of flat screen televisions to light bulbs that last for years, light-emitting diodes (LEDs) continue to transform technology. The celebrated efficiency and versatility ... > full story
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