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Computer Privacy: Share Button May Share Your Browsing History, Too
July 22, 2014 — One in 18 of the world’s top 100,000 websites track users without their consent using a previously undetected cookie-like tracking mechanism embedded in ‘share’ buttons. The researchers traced ... full story -
Boosting the Force of Empty Space: Theorists Propose Way to Amplify Force of Vacuum Fluctuations
July 22, 2014 — Vacuum fluctuations may be among the most counter-intuitive phenomena of quantum physics. Theorists have now proposed a way to amplify their force. The researchers believe that their proposed ... full story -
Massive Neutrinos and New Standard Cosmological Model: No Concordance Yet
July 22, 2014 — Neutrinos, also known as ‘ghost particles’ because they barely interact with other particles or their surroundings, are massless particles according to the standard model of particle physics. ... full story -
Bioprinting Methods on 2-D Surfaces to Link 3-D Cellular Structures
July 21, 2014 — New research focuses on the development of a novel, matrix-free method for generating 3-D cell spheroids that are combining knowledge from bioprinting methods on 2-D surfaces to link 3-D cellular ... full story -
Understanding Graphene's Electrical Properties on an Atomic Level
July 21, 2014 — For the first time, researchers have used a cutting-edge microscope to study the relationship between the atomic geometry of a ribbon of graphene and its electrical ... full story -
Transiting Exoplanet With Longest Known Year: 704 Earth Days
July 21, 2014 — Astronomers have discovered a transiting exoplanet with the longest known year. Kepler-421b circles its star once every 704 days. In comparison, Mars orbits our Sun once every 780 days. Most of the ... full story -
Chemists Eye Improved Thin Films With Metal Substitution
July 21, 2014 — The yield so far is small, but chemists have developed a low-energy, solution-based mineral substitution process to make a precursor to transparent thin films that could find use in electronics and ... full story -
Carbyne Morphs When Stretched: Calculations Show Carbon-Atom Chain Would Go Metal to Semiconductor
July 21, 2014 — Applying just the right amount of tension to a chain of carbon atoms can turn it from a metallic conductor to an insulator. The research has implications for mechanically activated nanoscale ... full story -
More Than Glitter: How Gold Nanoparticles Easily Penetrate Cells, Making Them Useful for Delivering Drugs
July 21, 2014 — A special class of tiny gold particles can easily slip through cell membranes, making them good candidates to deliver drugs directly to target cells. Scientists can now explain how gold nanoparticles ... full story -
Replacing Coal, Oil With Natural Gas Will Not Help Fight Global Warming, Expert Argues
July 21, 2014 — Both shale gas and conventional natural gas have a larger greenhouse gas footprint than do coal or oil, especially for the primary uses of residential and commercial heating. "While emissions of ... full story -
Genes That Contribute to Radiation Resistance Identified
July 21, 2014 — Forty-six genes in Escherichia coli have been discovered that are necessary for its survival at exceptionally high levels of radiation, researchers report in a new article. "The research has ... full story -
Seals Forage at Offshore Wind Farms
July 21, 2014 — By using sophisticated GPS tracking to monitor seals' every movement, researchers have shown for the first time that some individual seals are repeatedly drawn to offshore wind farms and ... full story -
Philosopher Uses Game Theory to Understand How Words, Actions Acquire Meaning
July 21, 2014 — Why does the word "dog" have meaning? If you say "dog" to a friend, why does your friend understand you? A philosopher aims to address these types of questions in his latest ... full story -
Mysterious Dance of Dwarf Galaxies May Force a Cosmic Rethink
July 21, 2014 — The discovery that many small galaxies throughout the universe do not 'swarm' around larger ones like bees do but 'dance' in orderly disc-shaped orbits is a challenge to our ... full story -
Human Platelets Successfully Generated Using Next-Generation Bioreactor
July 21, 2014 — A scalable, next-generation platelet bioreactor has been created to generate fully functional human platelets in vitro. The work is a major biomedical advancement that will help address blood ... full story -
New Drug Against Malaria Effective: Uses Synchrotron Light
July 21, 2014 — The CD27 drug is a true alternative against malaria, researchers now report. They have analyzed the crystalline structure of the DNA with the drug by performing X-ray diffraction experiments at the ... full story -
Size and Age of Plants Impact Their Productivity More Than Climate
July 20, 2014 — The size and age of plants has more of an impact on their productivity than temperature and precipitation, according to a landmark study. They show that variation in terrestrial ecosystems is ... full story -
Tiny Laser Sensor Heightens Bomb Detection Sensitivity
July 20, 2014 — Researchers have created a plasmon laser detector that can sniff out tiny traces of airborne molecules of explosives. The sensor detected both DNT and ammonium nitrate at concentrations below one ... full story -
A Noble Gas Cage: New Material Traps Gases from Nuclear Fuel Better and Uses Less Energy Than Currently Available Options
July 20, 2014 — A new material called CC3 effectively traps xenon, krypton, and radon. These gases are used in industries such as lighting or medicine and, in the case of radon, one that can be hazardous when it ... full story -
Mixing It Up: Study Provides New Insight Into Southern Ocean Behavior
July 20, 2014 — Turbulent mixing in the deep waters of the Southern Ocean, which has a profound effect on global ocean circulation and climate, varies with the strength of surface eddies -- the ocean equivalent of ... full story
- Computer privacy: Share button may share your browsing history, too
- Boosting the force of empty space: Theorists propose way to amplify force of vacuum fluctuations
- Massive neutrinos and new standard cosmological model: No concordance yet
- Bioprinting methods on 2-D surfaces to link 3-D cellular structures
- Understanding graphene's electrical properties on an atomic level
- Transiting exoplanet with longest known year: 704 Earth days
- Chemists eye improved thin films with metal substitution
- Carbyne morphs when stretched: Calculations show carbon-atom chain would go metal to semiconductor
- More than glitter: How gold nanoparticles easily penetrate cells, making them useful for delivering drugs
- Replacing coal, oil with natural gas will not help fight global warming, expert argues
- Genes that contribute to radiation resistance identified
- Seals forage at offshore wind farms
- Philosopher uses game theory to understand how words, actions acquire meaning
- Mysterious dance of dwarf galaxies may force a cosmic rethink
- Human platelets successfully generated using next-generation bioreactor
- New drug against malaria effective: Uses synchrotron light
- Size and age of plants impact their productivity more than climate
- Tiny laser sensor heightens bomb detection sensitivity
- A noble gas cage: New material traps gases from nuclear fuel better and uses less energy than currently available options
- Mixing it up: Study provides new insight into Southern Ocean behavior
- Oceans vital for possibility for alien life
- Speedy computation enables scientists to reconstruct an animal's development cell by cell
- Astronauts to test free-flying 'housekeeper' robots
- Researchers identify brain network with mapping technique
- Highly charged ions: Multiply ionized atoms for clocks, qubits, and constants
- It's go time for LUX-Zeplin dark matter experiment
- Improving driver safety: How to prevent streetlight glare in the new world of LED lighting
- Universal three-body relation: Physicists succeed in revealing the scaling behavior of exotic giant molecules
- New material puts a twist in light
- Looking back at the Jupiter crash 20 years later
- NASA rover's images show laser flash on Martian rock
- Rosetta spacecraft approaching twofold comet
- Getting a grip on robotic grasp: New wrist-mounted device augments the human hand with two robotic fingers
- Big data used to guide conservation efforts
- Revealed: The mystery behind starling flocks
- Nature's strongest glue comes unstuck
- More energy from a liter of biofuel
- Random nature of metastasis revealed by physicists
- 'Nanocamera' takes pictures at distances smaller than light's own wavelength
- Future electronics may depend on lasers, not quartz
- Lunar pits could shelter astronauts, reveal details of how 'man in the moon' formed
- Cheap, highly efficient solar cells: A new stable and cost-cutting type of perovskite solar cell
- Clearing the way for extremely efficient solar cells: First ab initio method for characterizing hot carriers
- Scientists experimentally re-create conditions deep inside giant planets, such as Jupiter and many exo-planets
- When is a molecule a molecule? Scientists watch fast electron jumps in exploding molecules
- Earth-like soils on Mars? Ancient fossilized soils potentially found deep inside impact crater suggest microbial life
- Hundreds of videos used to reconstruct 3-D motion without markers
- Is the universe a bubble? Let's check: Making the multiverse hypothesis testable
- New method created to draw molecules from live cells
- Potential new therapy with brain-on-a-chip axonal strain injury model
- Anti-tank missile detector joins fight against malaria
- Improving the cost and efficiency of renewable energy storage
- Birdsongs automatically decoded by computer scientists
- Math can make the Internet 5-10 times faster
- Connection between human translation and computerized translation programs
- Fires are major cause of wind farm failure, according to new research
- No-wait data centers: Data-transmission delays across server farms can be reduced by 99. 6 percent
- Cell membrane proteins give up their secrets
- Fair cake cutting gets its own algorithm
- Robot-assisted surgery for prostate cancer controls the disease for 10 years
- Sharpest map of Mars surface properties
- 70-foot-long, 52-ton concrete bridge survives series of simulated earthquakes
- Asteroid Vesta to reshape theories of planet formation
- Making a mental match: Pairing mechanical device with stroke patients
- EHR algorithms developed to identify undiagnosed hypertension
- Dispersant from Deepwater Horizon spill found to persist in the environment
- Efficient structures help build a sustainable future
- An anti-glare, anti-reflective display for mobile devices?
- Bubble wrap serves as sheet of tiny test tubes in resource-limited regions
- People in leadership positions may sacrifice privacy for security
- Improving tumor radiation therapy: When basic ions break DNA down
- Supercomputers reveal strange, stress-induced transformations in world's thinnest materials
- What do Google searches tell us about our climate change fears?
- Development of automatic system for translating biomedical patents in real time
- Self-assembling nanoparticle could improve MRI scanning for cancer diagnosis
- NOAA's GOES-R satellite Magnetometer ready for spacecraft integration
- NASA's Van Allen Probes show how to accelerate electrons
- Extending Moore's Law: Shrinking transistor size for smaller, more efficient computers
- Best-ever efficiency points to clean, green gas-diesel engine
- Telecare intervention improves chronic pain, study shows
- 3-D nanostructure could benefit nanoelectronics, gas storage: functional advantages of 3-D boron nitride predicted
- New assay to spot fake malaria drugs could save thousands of lives
- Nanophotonics experts create powerful molecular sensor
- Smarter ads for smartphones: When they do and don't work
- New materials for future green tech devices
- Directly visualizing hydrogen bonds
- 'Game theory' model reveals vulnerable moments for metastatic cancer cells' energy production
- Removing disordered regions of shape-shifting protein explains how blood clots
- Physicists detect process even rarer than the long-sought Higgs particle
- Kids' 'community' knowledge from internet leaves researcher hopeful
- Researchers assess emergency radiology response after Boston Marathon bombings
- Fuel cells for powering homes
- Cancer patients: How strongly does tissue decelerate the therapeutic heavy ion beam?
- Smallest Swiss cross: Made of 20 single atoms
- Study: Young women with sexy social media photos seen as less competent
- Labs characterize carbon for lithion-ion batteries
- Online advertising: Using competitors' brand name as a keyword can backfire
- Researchers demonstrate novel, tunable nanoantennas
- Squishy robots: Phase-changing material could allow even low-cost robots to switch between hard and soft states
- New technology for diagnosis of cancer cells
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