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New Silver Nanoparticle Skin Gel For Healing Burns Scientists in India are reporting successful laboratory tests of a new and potentially safer alternative to silver-based gels applied to the skin of burn patients to treat infections. With names like silver sulfadiazine and ...
Magnetic Field On Bright Star Vega Astronomy & Astrophysics is publishing the first detection of a magnetic field on the star Vega, one of the brightest stars in the sky. Using the high-sensitivity NARVAL spectropolarimeter installed at the Bernard-Lyot telescope (Pic du Midi ...
40 Years After Moon Landing: Why Is It So Hard to Go Back? Forty years ago today, two Americans touched down on the moon and walked upon its surface. Now, NASA's trying to do it again with Constellation, an ambitious project to return humans to the moon by 2020. But if NASA could ...
Europe Eyes Africa for Solar Power For centuries, Mediterranean countries have found countless ways to disagree -- over religion, ethnicity, colonialism and trade. But there are signs the region might yet unite in pursuit of a common goal: renewable energy. European government ...
Longest 21st century solar eclipse wows millions Longest 21st century solar eclipse wows millions A total solar eclipse began its flight on Wednesday across a narrow swathe of Asia, where hundreds of millions of people watched the skies darken despite thick summer clouds. The ...
Exotic Solar Cells Get Cheaper Exotic Solar Cells Get Cheaper Solar cells could be produced from materials other than silicon under a breakthrough that scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles, say could dramatically reduce the price of solar technologies. Solar ...
First Look At The Apollo Landing Sites The imaging system on board NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) recently had its first of many opportunities to photograph the Apollo landing sites. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) imaged five of the six Apollo sites ...
Laser Technology Creates New Forms Of Metal And Enhances Aircraft Performance AFOSR-funded researchers at the University of Rochester are using laser light technology that will help the military create new forms of metal that may guide, attract and repel liquids and cool small ...
Cell Phone Towers Can Help Predict Big Floods Though New Orleans residents were told to evacuate days before the arrival of Hurricane Katrina, no one could have predicted the real extent of the devastation. Now researchers from Tel Aviv University say they have found a novel and ...
Medical Use For Waste Television Screens Waste material from discarded televisions could be recycled and used in medicine, according to new research by scientists at the University of York. The chemical compound polyvinyl-alcohol (PVA) is widely used in industry and is a key ...
Dioxins Could Interfere With Lactation Dioxins Could Interfere With Lactation A recent study in the journal Toxicological Sciences reports that exposure of mice to dioxins during pregnancy can affect the development of mammary cells, which under normal conditions proliferate ...
Nanotechnology expert wins $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize Professor Chad Mirkin, director of Northwestern University's International Institute for Nanotechnology, has been awarded the 2009 $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize for innovations that have the potential to transform the future of ...
Old Moon Discovery Helps Unlock Earth Ocean Secrets This map shows changes in ocean bottom pressure measured by NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (Grace). Red shows where pressure varies by large amounts, blue where it changes very little. (Credit: Image courtesy of ...
New Material Could Vastly Improve Carbon Capture of Andre Leder METAL ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS: Crystalline molecules under development in Omar Yaghi's UCLA lab may offer new hope for capturing carbon To capture the carbon dioxide generated by coal plants, chemical companies like Dow ...
Saturn's Moon Titan Could Power 150 Billion Labor Day Barbecues Since its discovery by Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens in 1655, Saturn's most massive moon, Titan, has been known as a place of mystery and intrigue. The large, cloud-enshrouded moon is such a scientific enigma ...
Oerlikon Solar Customer Astronergy Seals Major 2 Megawatt PV Contract Landmark Deal for Chinese Manufacturer Demonstrates Growing Momentum for Oerlikon Solar s Silicon-Based Thin Film Solar Production Technology Trubbach (Switzerland), September 8, 2009. Oerlikon Solar customer ...
Giant Galaxy Hosts Most Distant Supermassive Black Hole University of Hawaii (UH) astronomer Dr. Tomotsugu Goto and colleagues have discovered a giant galaxy surrounding the most distant supermassive black hole ever found. The galaxy, so distant that it is seen as it was 12.8 ...
Lasers Generate Underwater Sound: Potential For Naval And Commercial Underwater Acoustic Applications Scattered light from a 532 nm laser pulse can be seen as it enters the water in the Salt Water Tank Facility, and ionizes a small volume of water for acoustic generation. Air ...
Quantum computer chip performs first maths calculation Researchers at the University of Bristol in the UK have made a proof-of-principle optical quantum computer chip and used it to perform a mathematical calculation for the first time. The device, which consists of tiny silica ...
Acoustic Tweezers Can Position Tiny Objects Acoustic tweezers" enable flexible on-chip manipulation and patterning of cells using standing surface acoustic waves. (Credit: Tony Jun Huang, Jinjie Shi, Penn State) Manipulating tiny objects like single cells or nanosized beads often ...
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Bill Gates talks nuclear
Bill Gates talks nuclear
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates confirmed on Wednesday that he is ...
China offers inspirations to global dilemmas
China offers inspirations to global dilemmas
BEIJING, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- Policies of China's new leadership in the ...
Merck to put $1.5b in R&D
Merck to put $1.5b in R&D
Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD), the world's second-largest drug producer by ...
IMF chief warns of risks to recovery
IMF chief warns of risks to recovery
DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- The International Monetary ...
China's farm product pricing plan shifts to market orientation
China's farm product pricing plan shifts to market orientation
The Number One Document also proposed a new pricing plan for China's ...
Chinese investors look to overseas opportunities
Chinese investors look to overseas opportunities
SHANGHAI, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- China, the world's top manufacturer and ...
Retailer's Net Profit Falls 3%
Retailer's Net Profit Falls 3%
A Wal-Mart store is seen in Stratford, Connecticut, the United States. ...
Gaming Firms Find Going Tough
Gaming Firms Find Going Tough
Employees demonstrate Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications' Xperia Play ...
Boeing Wins Biggest Order of US$26b
Boeing Wins Biggest Order of US$26b
A formation of nine Royal Air Force Red Arrows Hawk aircraft fly ...
Yao's gift of sport for all
Yao's gift of sport for all
Chinese NBA player Yao Ming teaches a boy with special needs how to ...
Lucrative golf industry lures stiff competition
Lucrative golf industry lures stiff competition
Two models stand beside golf equipment and bags at a recent golf ...
Li Na wins French Open women's singles title
Li Na wins French Open women's singles title
History-making tennis legend Li Na notched the first-ever grand slam ...