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New Models Yield Clearer Picture of Emissions' True Costs
Mar. 4, 2015 — New models calculate and compare the true costs of various fuels to health, climate and the environment. Viewed this way, a gallon of gas costs $3.80 more than the pump price. The social cost of a ... full story -
Pennies Reveal New Insights on Nature of Randomness
Mar. 4, 2015 — Researchers have developed an algorithm that creates truly disordered packings of pennies for the first ... full story -
Where You Live Could Mean 'Greener' Alternatives Do More Harm Than Good
Mar. 4, 2015 — Engineers propose a new 600-ton threshold that could indicate when switching to 'low carbon' alternatives may actually increase emissions. Although regions may welcome "green" ... full story -
NASA Ames Reproduces the Building Blocks of Life in Laboratory
Mar. 4, 2015 — NASA scientists studying the origin of life have reproduced uracil, cytosine, and thymine, three key components of our hereditary material, in the laboratory. They discovered that an ice sample ... full story -
Testing to Diagnose Power Event in Mars Rover
Mar. 4, 2015 — NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is expected to remain stationary for several days of engineering analysis following an onboard fault-protection action on Feb. 27 that halted a process of ... full story -
Flexible Sensors Turn Skin Into a Touch-Sensitive Interaction Space for Mobile Devices
Mar. 4, 2015 — If a mobile phone rings during a meeting, its owner often has to dig it out before it can be muted. A more discreet method would be to decline the incoming call by pressing on one of your fingers. ... full story -
Solar Cells to Get Growth Boost, Price Cut
Mar. 4, 2015 — Researchers have found that growing a type of film used to manufacture solar cells in ambient air gives it a growth boost. The finding could make manufacturing solar cells significantly ... full story -
Cities Have a Memory and Interact With Their Neighbors
Mar. 4, 2015 — Demographic changes in large cities depend on millions of individual decisions, but the population evolves depending on two factors: what 'reminds' them of their recent past and the ... full story -
Robots for Stroke Rehabilitation
Mar. 4, 2015 — A prototype of a robotic glove has been developed which stroke suffers can use in their own home to support rehabilitation and personal independence in receiving therapies. At the chronic stages of ... full story -
Lightning Plus Volcanic Ash Make Glass
Mar. 3, 2015 — Researchers have proposed a mechanism for the generation of glass spherules in geologic deposits through the occurrence of volcanic lightning. The existence of fulgurites -- glassy products formed in ... full story -
First Scientific Publication from Data Collected at National Synchrotron Light Source II
Mar. 3, 2015 — Just weeks after NSLS-II achieved first light, a team of scientists tested a setup that yielded data on thermoelectric materials. To test the optical performance and components of the beamline, the ... full story -
New Tech Could Significantly Cut Carbon Dioxide Emissions
Mar. 3, 2015 — A provisionally patented technology could revolutionize carbon dioxide capture and help significantly reduce pollution ... full story -
Far from Home: Wayward Star Cluster Is Both Tiny and Distant
Mar. 3, 2015 — Like the lost little puppy that wanders too far from home, astronomers have found an unusually small and distant group of stars that seems oddly out of place. The cluster, made of only a handful of ... full story -
Understanding Electric Car 'Range Anxiety' Could Be Key to Wider Acceptance
Mar. 3, 2015 — Drivers have been slow to adopt electric vehicles due to 'range anxiety,' the fear of becoming stranded with an empty battery. This phenomenon was recently addressed in a study that aims to ... full story -
Float Like a Mosquito: Mechanical Logic May Inspire Aquatic Robots, Better Boats
Mar. 3, 2015 — By examining the forces that the segments of mosquito legs generate against a water surface, researchers have unraveled the mechanical logic that allows the mosquitoes to walk on water, which may ... full story -
Flower-Like Magnetic Nanoparticles Target Difficult Tumors
Mar. 3, 2015 — Next-generation magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) may soon be treating deep-seated and difficult-to-reach tumors within the human ... full story -
Pressure Is on to Find the Cause for Vision Changes in Space
Mar. 3, 2015 — The human body is approximately 60 percent fluids. During spaceflight, these fluids shift to the upper body and move across blood vessel and cell membranes differently than they normally do on Earth. ... full story -
Cloudy, With a Wisp of Liquid Rock: Clouds Around Exoplanets Analyzed
Mar. 3, 2015 — Meteorologists sometimes struggle to accurately predict the weather here on Earth, but now we can find out how cloudy it is on planets outside our solar system, thanks to new ... full story -
Step Change for Screening Could Boost Biofuels
Mar. 3, 2015 — Researchers have developed a new way of rapidly screening yeasts that could help produce more sustainable biofuels. The new technique could also be a boon in the search for new ways of deriving ... full story -
UK Cities Including London Not as 'Smart' as Global Counterparts
Mar. 3, 2015 — Major cities in the UK are falling behind their international counterparts in terms of their use of smart technologies, according to a new study. The research has found that smart cities in the UK, ... full story
- New models yield clearer picture of emissions' true costs
- Pennies reveal new insights on nature of randomness
- Where you live could mean 'greener' alternatives do more harm than good
- NASA Ames reproduces the building blocks of life in laboratory
- Testing to diagnose power event in Mars rover
- Flexible sensors turn skin into a touch-sensitive interaction space for mobile devices
- Solar cells to get growth boost, price cut
- Cities have a memory and interact with their neighbors
- Robots for stroke rehabilitation
- Lightning plus volcanic ash make glass
- First scientific publication from data collected at National Synchrotron Light Source II
- New tech could significantly cut carbon dioxide emissions
- Far from home: Wayward star cluster is both tiny and distant
- Understanding electric car 'range anxiety' could be key to wider acceptance
- Float like a mosquito: Mechanical logic may inspire aquatic robots, better boats
- Flower-like magnetic nanoparticles target difficult tumors
- Pressure is on to find the cause for vision changes in space
- Cloudy, with a wisp of liquid rock: Clouds around exoplanets analyzed
- Step change for screening could boost biofuels
- UK cities including London not as 'smart' as global counterparts
- Modeling chimp behavior? Try using laws that govern matter
- The rub with friction: News rules of friction at the microscopic level
- Networks of micro-drones: What can they be expected to do?
- Computer simulator will improve radiation therapy for cancer patients, experts say
- MR spectroscopy shows precancerous breast changes in women with BRCA gene
- Towards dust-free wood combustion
- New data on the nature of dark matter
- Graphene Research: Electrons Moving along Defined Snake States
- Breakthrough in particle control creates special half-vortex rotation
- The taming of magnetic vortices: A unified theory for skyrmion-materials
- Reading speed harnessed to automatically control text display rates
- Magnetic vortices in nanodisks reveal information
- New technique improves forecasts for Canada's prized salmon fishery
- Giant virus revealed in 3-D using X-ray laser
- Perfect NCAA bracket? Near impossible: Mathematician says
- Colon + septic tank = unique, at times stinky, study
- Pens filled with high-tech inks for do-it-yourself sensors
- Black phosphorus is new 'wonder material' for improving optical communication
- Forbidden atomic transitions: Controlling matter 1,000 times more precisely using high-resolution spectroscopy
- Google Glass shows promising uses in plastic surgery
- Core work: Iron vapor gives clues to formation of Earth and moon
- Swarmies shuffle through field tests
- Old-looking galaxy in a young universe: Astronomers find dust in the early universe
- NASA spacecraft nears historic dwarf planet arrival
- Important step towards quantum computing: Metals at atomic scale
- Breakthrough in organic light emitting diodes technology
- Clever application of magnetic force enhances laparoscopic surgery
- Smart crystallization
- Scientists trick the light fantastic
- Blend of polymers could one day make solar power lighter, cheaper and more efficient
- Aerogel catalyst shows promise for fuel cells: Unzipped nanotubes turned into possible alternative for platinum
- First ever photograph of light as a particle and a wave
- Brain metastases: Better outcomes for those under 50 years old receiving stereotactic radiosurgery alone
- Lab-on-paper developed for rapid, inexpensive medical diagnostics
- Supersonic electrons could produce future solar fuel
- Interventional radiology offers new treatment for enlarged prostates
- 3-D printing offers innovative method to deliver medication
- ‘Superhero vision’ technology measures European lake’s water quality from space
- Green light for the world's first intelligent oil pipelines
- Preventing spread of cancer with copper molecules
- Borrowing from whales to engineer a new fluid sensor
- First detailed microscopy evidence of bacteria at the lower size limit of life
- Life 'not as we know it' possible on Saturn's moon Titan
- The better to see you with: Prosthetic leg would keep an eye on path ahead
- Bringing clean energy a step closer
- Energy use in buildings: Innovative, lower cost sensors and controls yield better energy efficiency
- Mystery of the reverse-wired eyeball solved
- Predicting human crowds with statistical physics
- Employees become angry when receiving after-hours email, texts
- Zombie outbreak? Statistical mechanics reveals the ideal hideout; and informs real disease modeling
- Saving energy: Increasing oil flow in the Keystone pipeline with electric fields
- Untangling DNA with a droplet of water, a pipet and a polymer
- New filter could advance terahertz data transmission
- The biobattery: Turning sewage sludge into electricity and engine oil
- Terrorist attacks have shifted from air to rail, study suggests
- OSIRIS-REx mission successfully completes system integration review
- Living on the edge: Stars found far from galaxy center
- QR codes with advanced imaging and photon encryption protect computer chips
- Quantum radar to detect objects which are invisible to conventional systems
- Ensuring security for networks of the future
- Quick test for quality beer, milk
- Wind-powered freighters
- Dying in front of the camera: What are the impacts?
- World's best cross-country skiers pole to victory
- Talking drone offers aviation safety boost
- Top-precision optical atomic clock starts ticking
- Economic models provide insights into global sustainability challenges
- 'Ecosystem services' help assess ocean energy development
- Caging of molecules allows investigation of equilibrium thermodynamics
- World's challenges demand science changes -- and fast, experts say
- Interaction of estrogen receptor, coactivators seen for first time
- Building blocks of the future defy logic: New logic-defying mathematical model
- Ultrasound lags behind MRI for supplemental breast cancer screening
- How central are online social networks to our lives?
- New research predicts when, how materials will act
- New x-ray microscope for nanoscale imaging
- Combating bacteria via silver-dammar coating
- Superatomic Nickel core and unusual molecular reactivity
- Freeze! Watching alloys change from liquid to solid could lead to better metals
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