A five-person team sent to evaluate damage from the devastating magnitude-7 earthquake that struck Haiti on Jan. 12 found no surface evidence of the fault that might have caused the quake, but installed four instruments to ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 22, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As computer chips rapidly continue to evolve, new technologies must be developed to closely monitor the fabrication process and guard against faults at a sub-microscopic level.
Electronics & Semiconductors
Feb 22, 2010
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An extremely small RNA molecule created by a University of Colorado at Boulder team can catalyze a key reaction needed to synthesize proteins, the building blocks of life. The findings could be a substantial step toward understanding ...
Biochemistry
Feb 22, 2010
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Conventional wisdom among many ecologists is that industrial-scale agriculture is the best way to produce lots of food while preserving biodiversity in the world's remaining tropical forests. But two University of Michigan ...
Ecology
Feb 22, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In a matter of months, bioengineer Markus Covert, PhD, expects to unveil the first "whole-cell" computer model of an organism.
Biotechnology
Feb 22, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- UCLA scientists working with Los Angeles police are using sophisticated mathematics to identify and analyze urban crime patterns.
Mathematics
Feb 22, 2010
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Ice shelves are retreating in the southern section of the Antarctic Peninsula due to climate change. This could result in glacier retreat and sea-level rise if warming continues, threatening coastal communities and low-lying ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 22, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- European experts in nanotechnology, optoelectronics and quantum physics have advanced the generation, detection and manipulation of single photons in semiconductors. Their discoveries bring practical single-photon ...
Quantum Physics
Feb 22, 2010
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Australia's Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is showing an extraordinary range of benefits from the network of protected marine reserves introduced there five years ago, according to a comprehensive new study published in the Proceedings ...
Environment
Feb 22, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Polyurethane plastics used to make a host of products from furniture fillings to shoe soles, cable insulation and paints - and which can be difficult to recycle - could soon be degraded in compost heaps, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 22, 2010
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