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Planet 'Reared' by Four Parent Stars
Mar. 4, 2015 — Growing up as a planet with more than one parent star has its challenges. Though the planets in our solar system circle just one star -- our sun -- other more distant planets, called exoplanets, can ... full story -
Taking Madness out of March Madness
Mar. 4, 2015 — A business professor takes the madness out of the month with his "Dance Card" Method for determining NCAA March Madness brackets, also known as ... full story -
Making Night Vision, Thermal Imaging Affordable
Mar. 4, 2015 — Researchers have created an electronic device using CMOS technology that detects electromagnetic waves to create images at nearly 10 terahertz, which is the highest frequency for electronic devices. ... full story -
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 -
Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions With a More Effective Carbon Capture Method
Mar. 4, 2015 — Trapping carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from power plants and various industries could play a significant role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the future. But current materials that can ... full story -
Energy-Generating Cloth Could Replace Batteries in Wearable Devices
Mar. 4, 2015 — From light-up shoes to smart watches, wearable electronics are gaining traction among consumers, but these gadgets' versatility is still held back by the stiff, short-lived batteries that are ... 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 -
Twitter Helps Smokers Kick the Habit, Study Finds
Mar. 4, 2015 — When subjects in a smoking cessation program tweet each other regularly, they're more successful at kicking the habit, according to a study. Specifically, daily 'automessages' that ... full story -
Determining Recipes for Some of the World's Oldest Preserved Beers
Mar. 4, 2015 — Some breweries have taken to resurrecting the flavors of ages past. Adventurous beer makers are extrapolating recipes from clues that archeologists have uncovered from old and even ancient brews ... full story -
Kids and Robots Learn to Write Together
Mar. 4, 2015 — Who is the teacher: the student or the machine? By showing a robot how to write letters, children improve their writing skills and gain ... full story -
How Big Data Can Be Used to Understand Major Events
Mar. 4, 2015 — With the most unpredictable UK general election looming in modern times, how can big data be used to understand how elections are covered by the media? New research has for the first time analyzed ... full story -
Basis for Cadmium Toxicity Uncovered
Mar. 4, 2015 — Research has uncovered how the metal cadmium, which is accumulating in the food chain, causes toxicity in living cells. "Cadmium is a very important industrial metal, but exposure to it results ... 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 -
Simulating the Potential Spread of Measles
Mar. 4, 2015 — To help the public better understand how measles can spread, a team of infectious disease computer modelers has launched a free, mobile-friendly tool that lets users simulate measles outbreaks in ... full story -
Genetic Data Can Help Predict How Pine Forests Will Cope With Climate Change
Mar. 4, 2015 — Data from only a small number of gene variants can predict which maritime pine trees are most vulnerable to climate change, scientists report. The results will improve computer models designed to ... full story -
Twitter Chatter Predicts Health Insurance Marketplace Enrollment
Mar. 4, 2015 — An increase in Twitter sentiment (the positivity or negativity of tweets) is associated with an increase in state-level enrollment in the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) health insurance marketplaces ... 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
- Planet 'reared' by four parent stars
- Taking madness out of March Madness
- Making night vision, thermal imaging affordable
- New models yield clearer picture of emissions' true costs
- Reducing greenhouse gas emissions with a more effective carbon capture method
- Energy-generating cloth could replace batteries in wearable devices
- Pennies reveal new insights on nature of randomness
- Twitter helps smokers kick the habit, study finds
- Determining recipes for some of the world's oldest preserved beers
- Kids and robots learn to write together
- How big data can be used to understand major events
- Basis for cadmium toxicity uncovered
- Where you live could mean 'greener' alternatives do more harm than good
- Simulating the potential spread of measles
- Genetic data can help predict how pine forests will cope with climate change
- Twitter chatter predicts health insurance marketplace enrollment
- 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
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