Save
Email
Print
Share
RSSBrowse News Stories
321 to 330 of 1,832 stories
view headlines only
-
Spider Silk Conducts Heat as Well as Metals
March 5, 2012 — Researchers have discovered that spider silk is surprisingly good at transferring heat. Spider silk, in fact, conducts heat as well or better than most ... > full story -
How the Body Senses a Range of Hot Temperatures
March 2, 2012 — The winter sun feels welcome, but not so a summer sunburn. Research over the past 20 years has shown that proteins on the surface of nerve cells enable the body to sense several different ... > full story -
New Model Provides Different Take on Planetary Accretion: Collapse May Take Place in 3-D Cold Dust Cloud
February 29, 2012 — The prevailing model for planetary accretion assumes that the solar system's planets formed in an extremely hot, two-dimensional disk of gas and dust, post-dating the sun. Scientists now propose a ... > full story -
Deaths Triple Among Football Players, Morning Temperatures Thought to Play a Role
February 27, 2012 — Heat-related deaths among football players across the country tripled to nearly three per year between 1994 and 2009 after averaging about one per year the previous 15 years, according to an analysis ... > full story -
60-Year-Old Definition of Surface Tension on Solids Revised
February 27, 2012 — Researchers have shown that surface tension on a solid material is unconnected to the energy required to create a new surface. Consequently, surface tension on a solid does not exist in its ... > full story -
Making Droplets Drop Faster: New Nanopatterned Surfaces Could Improve the Efficiency of Powerplants and Desalination Systems
February 23, 2012 — New research offers important new insights into how water droplets form, and ways to pattern the collecting surfaces at the nanoscale to encourage droplets to form more rapidly. These insights could ... > full story -
Recharge Your Cell Phone With a Touch? New Nanotechnology Converts Body Heat Into Power
February 22, 2012 — Never get stranded with a dead cell phone again. A promising new technology called Power Felt, a thermoelectric device that converts body heat into an electrical current, soon could create enough ... > full story -
Protein That Sends 'Painful Touch' Signals Identified
February 19, 2012 — Researchers report that they have identified a class of proteins that detect "painful touch." Scientists have known that sensory nerves in our skin detect pressure, pain, heat, cold, and other ... > full story -
Boiling Breakthrough: Nano-Coating Doubles Rate of Heat Transfer
February 15, 2012 — The old saw that a watched pot never boils may not apply to pots given an ultra-thin layer of aluminum oxide, which researchers have reported can double the heat transfer from a hot surface to a ... > full story -
Time of Year Important in Projections of Climate Change Effects on Ecosystems
February 15, 2012 — Based on more than 25 years of data, ecologists looked at how droughts and heat waves affect grass growth during different months of the ... > full story
Search ScienceDaily
Number of stories in archives: 137,337
more 
