Mitochondrial DNA may not hold the key to unlocking the ancestry of African Americans, according to a study by a University of South Carolina researcher published in this week’s issue of the journal BMC Biology.
Oct 12, 2006
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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have made the first confirmed “spintronic” device incorporating organic molecules, a potentially superior approach for innovative electronics that rely ...
General Physics
Oct 12, 2006
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How to direct and control the self-assembly of nanoparticles is a fundamental question in nanotechnology. University of Michigan researchers have discovered a way to make nanocrystals in a fluid assemble into free-floating ...
Nanomaterials
Oct 12, 2006
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For the first time, astronomers have measured the day and night temperatures of a planet outside our solar system. The team revealed that a giant Jupiter-like gas planet orbiting very close to its star is blisteringly hot ...
Astronomy
Oct 12, 2006
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A research team at the National Research Council Canada (Ottawa) has developed a new quantum technology which uses laser pulses to control quantum processes. The method, which is described in the October 13th web release ...
General Physics
Oct 12, 2006
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The first detailed images of a binary asteroid system reveal a bizarre world where the highest points on the surface are actually the lowest, and the two asteroids dance in each other's gravitational pull.
Astronomy
Oct 12, 2006
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A wide range of optical electronic devices, from laser disk players to traffic lights, may be improved in the future thanks to a small piece of semiconductor, about the size of a button, coated with aluminum, gallium, and ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
Oct 12, 2006
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From a butterfly's iridescent wing to a gecko's sticky foot, nature derives extraordinary properties from ordinary materials like wax and keratin. Its secret is hierarchical topology: macroscale structures assembled from ...
Nanomaterials
Oct 12, 2006
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Fossilized embryos predating the Cambrian Explosion by 10 million years provide evidence that early animals had already begun to adopt some of the structures and processes seen in today's embryos, say researchers from Indiana ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Oct 12, 2006
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Scientists from the U.S. Department Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have developed a ruler made of gold nanoparticles and DNA that can measure the smallest of ...
Bio & Medicine
Oct 12, 2006
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