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An Electronic Nose Can Tell Pears and Apples Apart
May 8, 2013 — Engineers have created a system of sensors that detects fruit odors more effectively than the human sense of smell. For now, the device can distinguish between the odors compounds emitted by pears ... > full story -
Milky Way Black Hole Snacks on Hot Gas
May 7, 2013 — The Herschel space observatory has made detailed observations of surprisingly hot gas that may be orbiting or falling towards the supermassive black hole lurking at the center of our Milky Way ... > full story -
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Value in Concentrating Solar Power to Add to Electric Grid Calculated
May 7, 2013 — Researchers have quantified the significant value that concentrating solar power plants can add to an electric ... > full story -
20-Million-Year-Old Amber Shatters Theories of Glass as a Liquid
May 7, 2013 — Fact or fiction? Stained glass found in medieval cathedrals becomes thicker at the bottom because glass moves over time. For years researchers have had their doubts, now scientists have further ... > full story -
New Mechanism Converts Natural Gas to Energy Faster, Captures Carbon Dioxide
May 7, 2013 — Chemical engineering researchers have identified a new mechanism to convert natural gas into energy up to 70 times faster, while effectively capturing the greenhouse gas carbon ... > full story -
Cleaner, Low Temperature Nuclear Fuels?
May 7, 2013 — The search for cleaner, low temperature nuclear fuels has produced a surprising result for a team of experts. First they created a stable version of a 'trophy molecule' that has eluded scientists for ... > full story -
Magnetic Vortex Antennas for Wireless Data Transmission
May 7, 2013 — Three-dimensional magnetic vortices have recently been discovered. Vortex states are potential antennas for the ultrafast, wireless data transmission of ... > full story -
Chaos Proves Superior to Order
May 7, 2013 — Physicists have demonstrated that chaos can beat order - at least as far as light storage is ... > full story -
Hubble Sees the Remains of a Star Gone Supernova
May 6, 2013 — A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows delicate wisps of gas that make up an object known as SNR B0519-69.0, or SNR 0519 for short. The thin, blood-red shells are actually the remnants ... > full story -
NASA's Spitzer Puts Planets in a Petri Dish
May 6, 2013 — Our galaxy is teeming with a wild variety of planets. In addition to our solar system's eight near-and-dear planets, there are more than 800 so-called exoplanets known to circle stars beyond our sun. ... > full story
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