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Meteorite May Represent 'Bulk Background' of Mars' Battered Crust
Jan. 30, 2015 — NWA 7034, a meteorite found a few years ago in the Moroccan desert, is like no other rock ever found on Earth. It's been shown to be a 4.4 billion-year-old chunk of the Martian crust, and ... full story -
New Method Allows for Greater Variation in Band Gap Tunability
Jan. 30, 2015 — If you can't find the ideal material, then design a new one. By manipulating the ordered arrangement of atoms in layered complex oxide materials, scientists have found a way to control their ... full story -
Renewable Energy Policies Drive Production of Southern Wood Pellets for Bioenergy
Jan. 30, 2015 — Policies in the European Union and elsewhere requiring the use of renewable and low greenhouse gas-emitting energy are driving demand for wood pellets used to generate bioenergy. This demand could ... full story -
Research Uncovers Connection Between Craigslist Personals, HIV Trends
Jan. 30, 2015 — Craigslist's entry into a market results in a 15.9 percent increase in reported HIV cases, according to research. When mapped at the national level, more than 6,000 HIV cases annually and ... full story -
Computing: Common 'Data Structure' Revamped to Work With Multicore Chips
Jan. 30, 2015 — Every undergraduate computer-science major takes a course on data structures, which describes different ways of organizing data in a computer's memory. Every data structure has its own ... full story -
DNA Nanoswitches Reveal How Life's Molecules Connect
Jan. 30, 2015 — 'Bio-molecular interaction analysis, a cornerstone of biomedical research, is traditionally accomplished using equipment that can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars,' said the senior ... full story -
Fluorescent Dyes 'Light Up' Brain Cancer Cells
Jan. 30, 2015 — Two new fluorescent dyes attracted to cancer cells may help neurosurgeons more accurately localize and completely resect brain tumors, suggests a new study. Removing all visible areas of cancer ... full story -
Mobile and Interactive Media Use by Young Children: The Good, the Bad and the Unknown
Jan. 30, 2015 — Mobile devices are everywhere and children are using them more frequently at young ages. The impact these mobile devices are having on the development and behavior of children is still relatively ... full story -
Understanding the Reinforcing Ability of Carbon Nanotubes
Jan. 30, 2015 — A new article explores what is preventing the reinforcing ability of carbon nanotubes from being used in a ceramic matrix. Ever since their discovery, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been considered the ... full story -
Biomaterial Coating Raises Prospect of More Successful Medical Implants
Jan. 30, 2015 — A novel, bacteria-repelling coating material that could increase the success of medical implants has been created. The material helps healthy cells 'win the race' to the medical implant, ... full story -
Tweeting About Sexism Could Improve a Woman's Wellbeing
Jan. 30, 2015 — Publically tweeting about sexism could improve a woman's wellbeing as it has the potential to let them to express themselves in ways that feel like they can make a difference, a new report ... full story -
Updating Satellite Data on Seas Could Dramatically Reduce Search and Rescue Times for Lost Planes, Ships
Jan. 30, 2015 — A new satellite imaging concept could significantly reduce search areas for missing boats and planes. Researchers have been trialling a concept for using satellite imagery to significantly improve ... full story -
HiSIM-SOTB, Compact Transistor Model, Selected as International Industry Standard
Jan. 30, 2015 — A new compact transistor model was developed and the framework for realizing a faster design support process and product development for integrated circuits in the ultra-low voltage category was ... full story -
New Technologies to Help Patients With Parkinson's Disease
Jan. 30, 2015 — New wearable sensor networks and mobile phone applications are being tested for their potential to monitor and manage patients with Parkinson’s disease. The research aim is the usage of low-cost ... full story -
Water Purification: Running Fuel Cells on Bacteria
Jan. 30, 2015 — Researchers in Norway have succeeded in getting bacteria to power a fuel cell. The "fuel" used is wastewater, and the products of the process are purified water droplets and electricity. ... full story -
Pinholes Are Pitfalls for High Performance Solar Cells
Jan. 30, 2015 — The most popular next-generation solar cells under development may have a problem – the top layer is full of tiny pinholes, researchers have ... full story -
Building Trustworthy Big Data Algorithms
Jan. 29, 2015 — Much of our reams of data sit in large databases of unstructured text. Finding insights among emails, text documents, and websites is extremely difficult unless we can search, characterize, and ... full story -
Crystal Light: New Family of Light-Converting Materials Points to Cheaper, More Efficient Solar Power and LEDs
Jan. 29, 2015 — Engineers have shone new light on an emerging family of solar-absorbing materials that could clear the way for cheaper and more efficient solar panels and LEDs. The materials, called perovskites, are ... full story -
Complex Environments Push 'Brain' Evolution
Jan. 29, 2015 — Little animations trying to master a computer game are teaching neuroscience researchers how the brain evolves when faced with difficult tasks. Neuroscientists have programmed animated critters that ... full story -
Privacy Challenges: Just Four Vague Pieces of Info Can Identify You, and Your Credit Card
Jan. 29, 2015 — Just four fairly vague pieces of information -- the dates and locations of four purchases -- are enough to identify 90 percent of the people in a data set recording three months of credit-card ... full story
- Meteorite may represent 'bulk background' of Mars' battered crust
- New method allows for greater variation in band gap tunability
- Renewable energy policies drive production of Southern wood pellets for bioenergy
- Research uncovers connection between Craigslist personals, HIV trends
- Computing: Common 'data structure' revamped to work with multicore chips
- DNA nanoswitches reveal how life's molecules connect
- Fluorescent dyes 'light up' brain cancer cells
- Mobile and interactive media use by young children: The good, the bad and the unknown
- Understanding the reinforcing ability of carbon nanotubes
- Biomaterial coating raises prospect of more successful medical implants
- Tweeting about sexism could improve a woman's wellbeing
- Updating satellite data on seas could dramatically reduce search and rescue times for lost planes, ships
- HiSIM-SOTB, compact transistor model, selected as international industry standard
- New technologies to help patients with Parkinson's disease
- Water purification: Running fuel cells on bacteria
- Pinholes are pitfalls for high performance solar cells
- Building trustworthy big data algorithms
- Crystal light: New family of light-converting materials points to cheaper, more efficient solar power and LEDs
- Complex environments push 'brain' evolution
- Privacy challenges: Just four vague pieces of info can identify you, and your credit card
- Generating Mobius strips of light
- New technique for growing high-efficiency perovskite solar cells
- Powerful tool promises to change the way scientists view proteins
- Where did the missing oil go? New study says some is sitting on the Gulf floor
- CAT scan of nearby supernova remnant reveals frothy interior
- Individuals may fail to navigate complex tradeoffs in privacy decision-making
- Public and scientists express strikingly different views about science-related issues
- Texting may be more suitable than apps in treatment of mental illness
- Understanding portable biodetection technology for identifying suspcious substances
- Satellites can improve regional air quality forecasting
- The tell-tale signs of a galactic merger
- Future of oil and gas development in the Western Amazon
- Rapid test kit detects dengue antibodies from saliva
- Forecasting the flu better
- Novel eye-tracking technology detects concussions, head injury severity
- Vehicle body made from cotton, hemp, and wood
- Ultrasound technology made to measure
- Solar chip monitors windows
- School failure linked to higher use of computers at home, Spanish study shows
- Nanomedicines of the future will build on quantum chemistry
- Could a new proposed particle help to detect Dark Matter?
- Astronomers gain a new view of galaxy M 82
- 3D printing makes heart surgery safer for children
- Cassini catches Saturn's moon Titan naked in the solar wind
- Researchers produce two bio-fuels from a single algae
- Some potentially habitable planets began as gaseous, Neptune-like worlds
- Engineer advances new daytime star tracker
- Gully patterns document Martian climate cycles
- To reassure electric car buyers, combine battery leasing with better charging
- Quantum computer as detector shows space is not squeezed
- Missing link in metal physics explains Earth's magnetic field
- Spiky 'hedgehog particles' for safer paints, fewer VOC emissions
- Holes in valence bands of nanodiamonds discovered: Potential catalysts for splitting water
- Mobile apps take students into the laboratory
- Demystifying nanocrystal solar cells
- The two faces of Mars: Moon-sized celestial object crashed into south pole
- Breakthrough in terahertz spectroscopy
- Detecting chemical weapons quickly with a color-changing film
- Eyeglasses that turn into sunglasses -- at your command
- Bike-to-work events offer chance to explore barriers to cycling
- Pacemakers with Internet connection, a not-so-distant goal
- A robot to help improve agriculture and wine production
- New instrument to study the extreme universe -- the X-Ray polarimeter X-Calibur
- Researchers use sound to slow down, speed up, and block light
- Ballooning offers platform for performing research in a space-like environment
- The mouth of the beast: VLT images cometary globule CG4
- Game theory explains social interactions of cancer cells
- Nanoscale mirrored cavities amplify, connect quantum memories
- Spider electro-combs its sticky nano-filaments
- Crude oil conspiracy theories could be right: Oil is often the reason for interfering in another country's war
- Supercomputing the evolution of a model flower
- Researchers tune friction in ionic solids at the nanoscale
- Testing investigational device for emphysema
- Low-frequency deep brain stimulation improves difficult-to-treat Parkinson's symptoms
- NASA's Dawn spacecraft captures best-ever view of dwarf planet Ceres
- Stomach acid-powered micromotors get their first test in a living animal
- From tar sands to ring of fire: Forewarning changes to Canada's watersheds
- New mechanism unlocked for evolution of green fluorescent protein
- 'Knobby terrain' a sign of Mars's explosive past
- Asteroid that flew past Earth has moon
- 'Yellowballs' are part of the development of massive star
- New pathway to valleytronics: Femtosecond laser used to manipulate valley excitons
- Targeted MRI/ultrasound beats standard biopsy to detect high-risk prostate cancer
- Bubbles from the galactic center: A key to understanding dark matter and our galaxy's past?
- Ancient star system reveals Earth-sized planets forming near start of universe
- Using 3-D printing, clinicians repair tracheal damage
- The origin of life: Labyrinths as crucibles of life
- The laser pulse that gets shorter all by itself
- Web surfing to weigh up bariatric surgery options
- Economic trade-offs of owning versus leasing a solar photovoltaic system
- New search engine lets users look for relevant results faster
- Novel radioguided brain surgery technique could help pinpoint cancerous tissue
- Bad weather warnings most effective if probability included, new research suggests
- Online monitoring system for patients with sleep apnea
- Carbon nanoballs can greatly contribute to sustainable energy supply
- Do green roofs, solar panels work well together?
- 'Bulletproof' Battery: Kevlar Membrane for Safer, Thinner Lithium Rechargeables
- Chromium-centered cycloparaphenylene rings as new tools for making functionalized nanocarbons
- Making a tiny rainbow: 300 colors about as wide as a human hair
- Maximizing access to mobile networks by seamlessly 'offloading' some traffic
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