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Life 'Not as We Know It' Possible on Saturn's Moon Titan
Feb. 27, 2015 — A new type of methane-based, oxygen-free life form that can metabolize and reproduce similar to life on Earth has been modeled. It is theorized to have a cell membrane, composed of small organic ... full story -
The Better to See You With: Prosthetic Leg Would Keep an Eye on Path Ahead
Feb. 27, 2015 — A mechanical engineer and his team have developed a computer-controlled camera that enables their robotic ankle to see where it is ... full story -
Bringing Clean Energy a Step Closer
Feb. 27, 2015 — Researchers have made an inexpensive metal-free catalyst that performs as well as costly metal catalysts at speeding the oxygen reduction reaction in an acidic fuel cell, and is more durable. The ... full story -
Energy Use in Buildings: Innovative, Lower Cost Sensors and Controls Yield Better Energy Efficiency
Feb. 27, 2015 — Buildings are responsible for about 40 percent of the energy consumed in the United States. Studies indicate that advanced sensors and controls have the potential to reduce the energy consumption of ... full story -
Mystery of the Reverse-Wired Eyeball Solved
Feb. 27, 2015 — Counter-intuitively, in vertebrates photoreceptors are located behind the neurons in the back of the eye. Now physicists explain why the neural wiring seems to be ... full story -
Predicting Human Crowds With Statistical Physics
Feb. 27, 2015 — A general law of how pedestrians interact in a crowd can be used to create realistic crowds in virtual reality games and to make public spaces ... full story -
Employees Become Angry When Receiving After-Hours Email, Texts
Feb. 27, 2015 — People who receive electronic correspondence from work after hours become angry more often than not and that can interfere with their personal lives, a new study from a management researcher ... full story -
Zombie Outbreak? Statistical Mechanics Reveals the Ideal Hideout; And Informs Real Disease Modeling
Feb. 27, 2015 — A team researchers focusing on a fictional zombie outbreak as an approach to disease modeling suggests heading for the hills, in the Rockies, to save your brains from the ... full story -
Saving Energy: Increasing Oil Flow in the Keystone Pipeline With Electric Fields
Feb. 27, 2015 — A strong electric field applied to a section of the Keystone pipeline can smooth oil flow and yield significant pump energy savings. Once aligned with an electric field, oil retained its low ... full story -
Untangling DNA With a Droplet of Water, a Pipet and a Polymer
Feb. 27, 2015 — Researchers have long sought an efficient way to untangle DNA to study its structure -- neatly unraveled and straightened out -- under a microscope. Now, researchers have devised a simple and ... full story -
New Filter Could Advance Terahertz Data Transmission
Feb. 27, 2015 — For wireless communication in the long-sought terahertz range, engineers have devised a frequency filter that can be fabricated with an inkjet ... full story -
The Biobattery: Turning Sewage Sludge Into Electricity and Engine Oil
Feb. 27, 2015 — Sewage sludge, green waste, production residue from the food industry, straw or animal excrement – with the biobattery‘s modular concept a much larger range of biomass can be utilized for energy ... full story -
Terrorist Attacks Have Shifted from Air to Rail, Study Suggests
Feb. 27, 2015 — Data on terrorist attacks from 1982 to 2011 show a long-term trend away from air attacks and toward railroad and subway attacks, underscoring the need for increased intelligence gathering to ... full story -
QR Codes With Advanced Imaging and Photon Encryption Protect Computer Chips
Feb. 27, 2015 — Engineers have taken the ordinary QR code and transformed it into a high-end cybersecurity application that can protect the integrity of computer chips using advanced optical imaging and photon-based ... full story -
Quantum Radar to Detect Objects Which Are Invisible to Conventional Systems
Feb. 27, 2015 — A prototype quantum radar that has the potential to detect objects which are invisible to conventional systems has now been ... full story -
Ensuring Security for Networks of the Future
Feb. 27, 2015 — Company networks are inflexible – they are made up of many components that require a good deal of effort to be connected together. That’s why networks of the future will be controlled by a ... full story -
Quick Test for Quality Beer, Milk
Feb. 27, 2015 — To guarantee a high quality of their beer, breweries monitor the production process very closely. With a new polymer powder, this monitoring will be able to be faster and simpler in the future. ... full story -
Wind-Powered Freighters
Feb. 27, 2015 — To make ships more eco-efficient, engineers have been working with alternative fuels. A Norwegian engineer is currently pursuing a new approach: With VindskipTM, he has designed a cargo ship that is ... full story -
Dying in Front of the Camera: What Are the Impacts?
Feb. 27, 2015 — Clips of protesters dying in consequence of current conflicts appear more and more frequently on YouTube. What do they trigger? How do they change the media and the way we perceive things? These are ... full story -
World's Best Cross-Country Skiers Pole to Victory
Feb. 27, 2015 — As the World Cup cross-country ski races wrap up in Falun, Sweden this weekend, it's hard not to wonder what separates the very best skiers from across the globe from the winners. Norwegian ... full story
- 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
- 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
- Building blocks of the future defy logic: New logic-defying mathematical model
- 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
- New insight found in black hole collisions
- Lithium from the coal in China
- Optical features embedded in marine shells may help develop responsive, transparent displays
- MUSE goes beyond Hubble: Looking deeply into the universe in 3-D
- Pockets of calm protect molecules around a supermassive black hole
- Electronic alerts may do more harm than good for kidney patients
- Developers help fund transit through value capture plans
- Simple way to make and reconfigure complex emulsions
- Monster black hole discovered at cosmic dawn
- Clusters of aluminum metal atoms become superconductive at surprisingly high temperatures
- Physicists offer a solution to the puzzle of the origin of matter in the universe
- Bending a highly energetic electron beam with crystal
- New flow battery to keep big cities lit, green and safe
- New technology could make treatment of oil and gas wastewater simpler, cheaper
- Parkinson's disease patients have reduced visual contrast acuity
- Cellular communication offers easy fog detection for roads and runways
- Learning by eye: Silicon micro-funnels increase the efficiency of solar cells
- Electric-car driving range and emissions depend on where you live
- Magnetic nanoparticles enhance performance of solar cells
- When it comes to the digital playground we need to stop crying wolf
- Cherenkov Effect improves radiation therapy for patients with cancer
- In quest for better lithium-air batteries, chemists boost carbon's stability
- Researchers enable solar cells to use more sunlight
- Uncertainties must be taken into account in fisheries stock assessment
- Graphene shows potential as novel anti-cancer therapeutic strategy
- Flexible nanosensors for wearable devices
- Spin laser: Rapid data transfer thanks to quantum physics
- New nanowire structure absorbs light efficiently: May be used in LEDs and solar cells
- Novel computer model designed to understand cardiovascular diseases
- Bionic reconstruction lets patients use a robotic prosthetic hand controlled by the mind
- SOHO sees something new near the sun: Comet survives close encounter
- Cutting-edge technology optimizes cancer therapy with nanomedicine drug combinations
- Sensor-packed smartphones can read your mood, guard your data, and wreak havoc in the wrong hands
- Dendrite eraser: New electrolyte rids batteries of short-circuiting fibers
- Novel pretreatment could cut biofuel costs by 30 percent or more
- Together, nanotechnology, genetic interference may tackle 'untreatable/ brain tumors
- Intelligent tree inventory detector
- Direct brain neurostimulation for partial onset seizures provides long-term benefit
- Ultra-thin nanowires can trap electron 'twisters' that disrupt superconductors
- Using 'fuzzy logic' to optimize hybrid solar/battery systems
- Optical nanoantennas set the stage for a NEMS lab-on-a-chip revolution
- Why a latte is less likely to spill than a coffee
- Detecting defects at the nanoscale will profit solar panel production
- New acoustic insulation material that incorporates fibers from orange tree pruning
- Crude oil production: Asphaltene analysis takes a giant step
- Cyberbystanders: Most don't try to stop online bullies
- Renewable energy obtained from wastewater
- First portable system for monitoring patients with Parkinson's disease tested on 50 people from different countries
- New, useful feature of Moringa seeds revealed
- Facebook in mourning: mediatization of death and RIP pages as virtual shrines
- Motor proteins prefer slow, steady movement
- Building tailor-made DNA nanotubes step by step
- Radio chip for the 'Internet of things'
- Your privacy online: Health information at serious risk of abuse, researchers warn
- Threat of ocean acidification to coastal communities in US
- Simulating superconducting materials with ultracold atoms
- Magnetic nanoparticles could stop blood clot-caused strokes
- 3D printed guides can help restore function in damaged nerves
- Stretch and relax: Losing one electron switches magnetism on in dichromium
- Availabililty of rare metals for manufacturing: Are we (in)dependent of rare metals?
- Fever alarm armband: A wearable, printable, temperature sensor
- New catalyst to create chemical building blocks from biomass
- Smoking for 75 minutes in a car could render you unconscious, study suggests
- Frequency combs in molecular fingerprint region
- Quantum many-body systems on the way back to equilibrium
- New assistive equipment to maximize human sensorimotor function
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