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(http://www.memebox.com)
- posted by: Garry Golden
over 4 years ago
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Metals, like platinum, palladium and nickel, play a key role as catatysts that change the quality of reactions of gases like carbon, hydrogen and oxygen.
Designing catalysts at the nanoscale (billionth of a meter) will help to improve interact...
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(http://www.manchester.ac.uk)
- scanned by: Adam Cutsinger
over 4 years ago
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Scientists have created a molecular device which could act as a building block for future generations of superfast computers.
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quantum, leap, european, commission, binary, digit, qubit, computer, university, of, edinburgh, magnetic, molecules, school, chemistry, deborah, haile, manchester
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(http://www.nytimes.com)
- scanned by: Alvis Brigis
over 4 years ago
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A new map of knowledge has been assembled by scientists at the research library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. It is based on electronic data searches in which users moved from one journal to another, thus establishing associations between...
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(http://www.scienceblog.com)
- scanned by: Marisa Vitols
over 4 years ago
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Biaggio, an associate professor of physics at Lehigh University, is part of an international team of researchers that has developed an organic material with an unprecedented combination of high optical quality and strong ability to mediate light-l...
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(http://www.dailygalaxy.com)
- scanned by: Alvis Brigis
over 4 years ago
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Birds' ability to navigate huge distances while migrating has always been a source of natural wonder, and totally sweet long panning shots for nature documentaries. But now it seems that the avian autopilot is of interest to science, and possibly...
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(http://www.eurekalert.org)
- scanned by: Jeff Hilford
over 4 years ago
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With obesity reaching epidemic levels, researchers at the Ohio State University Medical Center are studying a potentially long-term treatment that involves injecting a gene directly into one of the critical feeding and weight control centers of th...
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(http://news.bbc.co.uk)
- scanned by: Jeff Hilford
over 4 years ago
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Increasing activity levels in middle age can prolong life as much as giving up smoking, a study suggests.
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exercise, middleage, aging, health, wellness, cardiovascular, activity, sedentary, lifestyle
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(http://www.sciencedaily.com)
- scanned by: Bora
over 4 years ago
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Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have identified a protein complex important in controlling whether embryonic stem cells retain their ability to become any cell in the body — a quality called pluripotency — or instead embar...
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(http://www.sciencedaily.com)
- scanned by: Bora
over 4 years ago
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We know that lifespan can be extended in animals by restricting calories such as sugar intake. Now, according to a study published in the journal PLoS Genetics, Université de Montréal scientists have discovered that it's not sugar itself that is i...
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aging, calorierestriction, glucose, nutrition, sensor
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(http://www.sciencedaily.com)
- scanned by: Jeff Hilford
over 4 years ago
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Instead of using synthetic weapons, they are using nature’s: an enzyme that has proved so effective at killing Streptococcus pneumoniae that it has been put on the front lines in the battle against infectious disease.
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(http://www.newscientist.com)
- scanned by: Jeff Hilford
over 4 years ago
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EXACT replicas of a man's thumb bones have been made for the first time using a 3D printer.
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3dprinting, bones, healing, replacement, scaffolding
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(http://www.nanowerk.com)
- scanned by: Garry Golden
over 4 years ago
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an international team of scientists have discovered a novel one dimensional ice chain structure built from pentagons that may prove to be a step toward the development of new materials which can be used to seed clouds and cause rain.
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