As the Arctic warms, greenhouse gases will be released from thawing permafrost faster and at…
Month: November 2011
Stronger corn? Take it off steroids, make it all female
Researchers have taken corn off steroids and found that the results might lead to improvements…
Fully printed carbon nanotube transistor circuits for displays
Researchers outline the first practical demonstration of carbon nanotube transistor based printed circuits for display…
Keeping Data Off U.S. Servers Won’t Prevent the Government from Snooping (The Atlantic Wire)
The Atlantic Wire – Related: Google Music Will Actually Have Music
Timing is everything: Bacterial attachment mimics just-in-time industrial model
Biologists and physicists have shown that certain bacteria wait until the last minute to synthesize…
In a star’s final days, astronomers hunt ‘signal of impending doom’
An otherwise nondescript binary star system in the Whirlpool Galaxy has brought astronomers tantalizingly close…
Earthquakes: Water as a lubricant
Geophysicists have established a mode of action that can explain the irregular distribution of strong…
Astronomers look to neighboring galaxy for star formation insight
An international team of astronomers has mapped in detail the star-birthing regions of the nearest…
Genetic sequencing could help match patients with biomarker-driven cancer trials, treatments
A pilot study shows genetic sequencing could help match patients with biomarker-driven cancer trials.
Earthquake friction effect demonstrated at the nanoscale
Earthquakes are some of the most daunting natural disasters that scientists try to analyze. Though…