Physical Sciences

New Evidence Puts 'Snowball Earth' Theory Out In The Cold

and the big question is- how can ice get all the way to the tropics but not finish the job?" he ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 23 2007 - 5:21pm

Scientists Develop System That Eliminates CO2 Emissions Through Microalgae

All these ways are within the CENIT project framework, designed by the Spanish Ministry of Industry. ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 24 2007 - 9:50pm

Linear Arrays Of Nanotubes Offer Path To High-performance Electronics

Ozel, all at Illinois; electrical and computer engineering professor Muhammad A. Alam and graduate ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 26 2007 - 11:24am

Researchers Find A New Way To Read Nanoscale Vibrations

the surface. "AFMs are all over the place," said Rob Ilic, research associate in the Cornell ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 26 2007 - 6:18pm

MIT Visualizes The Secret Of Turbulent Fluid Flow

whitewater that can overturn your raft. Turbulence is important in virtually all phenomena involving fluid ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 29 2007 - 1:15am

Limestone Seats Helped Ancient Greeks Hear From Back Row

audience member, carrying an actor’s voice all the way to the back rows of the theater. The research, done ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 7 2007 - 1:41am

Cells Fine Tune Oxygen Use

colon cells all made COX4-2. The researchers then exposed mice to hypoxia for a few weeks and found that ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 6 2007 - 10:29am

MIT Researchers Cool Object To Within One Degree Of Absolute Zero

atoms lose all thermal energy and have only their quantum motion. In their upcoming paper, the ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 9 2007 - 3:08pm

Molecular 'fishing' Paves Way For Advanced Hand-held Sensing Devices

Marszalek, both of Duke's Pratt School. All three investigators are members of Duke's Center for ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 9 2007 - 2:59pm

Clean Energy Breakthrough- Low Density Crystals Spur Alternatives

it reaches the atmosphere. Yaghi and his colleagues believe COFs are uniquely suited for all these ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 14 2007 - 11:38pm