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- Drillers help make new Antarctic discoveries
- Graphene brings quantum effects to electronic circuits
- Death of a dynamo: A hard drive from space
- Individual protons and neutrons in atomic nuclei do not behave according to predictions
- Twitter can predict rates of coronary heart disease, according to research
- Editing the brain: How new epigenetic tools could rewrite our understanding of memory and more
- Smart keyboard cleans and powers itself, and can tell who you are
- Electroluminescent light sheets: Printable luminous particles enable cost-effective, large and curved luminous surfaces
- Decorative and flexible solar panels become part of interior design and the appearance of objects
- In theory, the Milky Way could be a 'galactic transport system'
- New bacterial 'language' discovered: Previously unknown communication pathway
- Automated method beats critics in picking great movies
| Drillers help make new Antarctic discoveries Posted: 21 Jan 2015 11:48 AM PST An expedition to Antarctica yields new information about how climate change affects Antarctic glaciers. The study has discovered a new ecosystem, researchers report, including a unique ecosystem of fish and invertebrates living in an estuary deep beneath the Antarctic ice.  |
| Graphene brings quantum effects to electronic circuits Posted: 21 Jan 2015 10:07 AM PST Scientists have revealed a superfluid phase in ultra-low temperature 2D materials, creating the potential for electronic devices which dissipate very little energy.  |
| Death of a dynamo: A hard drive from space Posted: 21 Jan 2015 10:07 AM PST Hidden magnetic messages contained within ancient meteorites are providing a unique window into the processes that shaped our solar system, and may give a sneak preview of the fate of the Earth's core as it continues to freeze.  |
| Individual protons and neutrons in atomic nuclei do not behave according to predictions Posted: 21 Jan 2015 08:50 AM PST Individual protons and neutrons in atomic nuclei turn out not to behave according to the predictions made by existing theoretical models. This surprising conclusion, reached by an international team of physicists, forces us to reconsider how we have been describing large atomic nuclei for the past several decades.  |
| Twitter can predict rates of coronary heart disease, according to research Posted: 21 Jan 2015 08:49 AM PST Twitter has broken news stories, launched and ended careers, started social movements and toppled governments, all by being an easy, direct and immediate way for people to share what's on their minds. Researchers have now shown that the social media platform has another use: Twitter can serve as a dashboard indicator of a community's psychological well being and can predict rates of heart disease.  |
| Editing the brain: How new epigenetic tools could rewrite our understanding of memory and more Posted: 21 Jan 2015 08:46 AM PST Epigenetic changes are implicated in a host of neural conditions, from Alzheimer's-related memory loss to depression. Now, a revolutionary set of molecular editing tools is allowing scientists to alter the epigenome like never before.  |
| Smart keyboard cleans and powers itself, and can tell who you are Posted: 21 Jan 2015 07:32 AM PST In a novel twist in cybersecurity, scientists have developed a self-cleaning, self-powered smart keyboard that can identify computer users by the way they type. The device could help prevent unauthorized users from gaining direct access to computers.  |
| Posted: 21 Jan 2015 05:45 AM PST Researchers have now developed a new method that enables electroluminescence on large, curved surfaces in a cost-effective way: in this case, the light-emitting layer and all other components are produced by means of wet-chemical, printable methods.  |
| Decorative and flexible solar panels become part of interior design and the appearance of objects Posted: 21 Jan 2015 05:45 AM PST Scientists have developed and utilized a mass production method based on printing technologies allowing the manufacturing of decorative, organic solar panels. Design freedom improves the range of applications of the panels on the surfaces of interior and exterior building spaces. Researchers are also studying the feasibility of printing technology in the mass production of solar panels made from inorganic perovskite materials. The new mass production method enables to create interior design elements from organic solar panels (OPV, organic photovoltaics) harvesting energy from interior lighting or sunlight for various small devices and sensors that gather information from the environment. The panels can, for example, be placed on windows and walls and on machines, devices and advertisement billboards.  |
| In theory, the Milky Way could be a 'galactic transport system' Posted: 21 Jan 2015 05:36 AM PST Based on the latest evidence and theories our galaxy could be a huge wormhole and, if that were true, it could be "stable and navigable." Astrophysicists combined the equations of general relativity with an extremely detailed map of the distribution of dark matter in the Milky Way when proposing this possibility.  |
| New bacterial 'language' discovered: Previously unknown communication pathway Posted: 21 Jan 2015 05:36 AM PST Bacteria communicate by means of chemical signals and can develop common characteristics through this "agreement" and also develop their potential pathogenic effects in this way. Scientists have now described a hitherto unknown communication pathway that appears to be widely distributed.  |
| Automated method beats critics in picking great movies Posted: 19 Jan 2015 12:45 PM PST Don't rely on the Academy Awards next month if you are seeking to know whether the movies deemed great today will survive the test of time. According to a new study, the best predictor of a movie's significance is how often a movie is referenced by other movies. In other words, a movie's significance is decided by today's and tomorrow's film directors -- not the critics. This objective method of movie citations is best at predicting greatness, researchers say.  |
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