Location: Purdue University, United States
A newly defined biochemical pathway in plants may provide the
scientific tools to design plants that will yield larger quantities of
alternative transportation fuels than currently can be produced, according to
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Location: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Department of Energy, United States
If the Flintstones had electricity, their wires might have
been made of rock. New results in Science Express show that a chunk of hematite
can conduct electrons under certain chemical conditions. In addition, the
current...
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Location: Case Western Reserve University, United States
An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the departments
of macromolecular science and engineering and biomedical engineering at the
Case School of
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Location: University of Michigan, United States
The method to the madness of quasicrystals has been a mystery
to scientists. Quasicrystals are solids whose atoms aren't arranged in a
repeating pattern, as they are in ordinary crystals. Yet they form intricate
patterns...
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Location: Purdue University, United States
A team led by a
Purdue University
researcher has achieved images of a virus in detail two times greater than had
previously been achieved.
Wen...
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Location: Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California - Los Angeles, United States
Scientists have solved a 40-year-old puzzle by identifying
the origin of the intense radio waves in the Earth's upper atmosphere that
control the dynamics of the Van Allen radiation belts — belts consisting of
high-energy...
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Location: University of Minnesota, United States
Researchers at the
University of
Minnesota studying bacteria capable of generating electricity have
discovered that riboflavin (commonly known as...
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Location: School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania, United States
For centuries, engineers have bent and torn metals to test
their strength and ductility. Now, materials scientists at the
University of Pennsylvania
School of Engineering...
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Location: Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Computers, long used as tools to design and manipulate
three-dimensional objects, may soon provide people with a way to sense the
texture of those objects or feel how they fit together, thanks to a haptic, or
touch-based,...
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Location: UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, United States
Environmentally friendly hydrogen gas fueled vehicles can
dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions and lessen the country’s dependence
on sources of fossil fuel. Though several hydrogen vehicles exist on the market
...
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Location: Argonne National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, United States
The structure and behavior of one of the most common proteins in our bodies
has been resolved at a level of detail never before seen, thanks to new research
performed at the
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Location: University of the Basque Country, Spain
An international team led by Physics and Chemistry teams from
the Faculty of Science and Technology at the
University of the...
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Location: University of California, Riverside, United States
A
University of California - Riverside -led study in the Mojave Desert,
Calif., has found that soils under “desert pavement” have an unusually high
...
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Location: University of Arizona in Tucson, United States
Liquid water has not been found on the Martian surface within
the last decade after all, according to new research.
The finding casts doubt on the 2006 report that the bright
spots in some Martian...
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Location: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States
Researchers from the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have identified a key molecular mechanism
that may account for the development of cystic fibrosis, which about 1 in 3000
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Location: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Germany
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
scientists achieved to transfer very small charge "packets", comprising a
well-defined number of few electrons, between metallic electrons precisely by
using a...
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Location: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States
A new National Aeronautics and
Space Administration study confirms that the surface temperature of
Greenland's massive ice sheet has been rising, stoked by warming air
temperatures, and...
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Location: Argonne National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, United States
X-rays have been used for decades to take pictures of broken bones, but
scientists at the U.S. Department of
Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory
and their collaborators have...
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Location: Argonne National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, United States
Standard microscopy and visible light imaging techniques cannot peer into the
dark and murky centers of dense-liquid jets, which has hindered scientists in
their quest for a full understanding of liquid breakup in devices such as
automobile...
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