Secret of ultra-hard graphite unlocked - physics-math - 06 November 2010 - New Scientist

Secret of ultra-hard graphite unlocked - physics-math - 06 November 2010 - New Scientist In 2003, an experiment suggested that graphite, which is normally soft, could become ultra-hard when compressed. Graphite squeezed between two diamond jaws at pressures of 170,000 atmospheres managed to produce a crack in the diamond. The atomic structure of the material remained elusive, however.

New Scientist TV: Best of web video: Halloween special

New Scientist TV: Best of web video: Halloween special

Take the ultimate intelligence test - life - 27 October 2010 - New Scientist

Take the ultimate intelligence test - life - 27 October 2010 - New Scientist Click here to go straight to the ultimate intelligence test

You might think it's obvious that one person is smarter than another.

But there are few more controversial areas of science than the study of intelligence and, in reality, there's not even agreement among researchers about what this word actually means.

Super-futuristic cars will be 'grown from seeds' rather than built - Yahoo! India News

Super-futuristic cars will be 'grown from seeds' rather than built - Yahoo! India News London, Oct 26 (ANI): Some of the world's most famous car manufacturers have come up with futuristic designs for vehicles that would be "grown" rather than built and which will be powered by compressed air.

New liquid crystals could improve digital displays

New liquid crystals could improve digital displays Chemists at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., created a new class of liquid crystals with unique electrical properties that could improve the performance of digital displays used on everything from digital watches to flat panel televisions.

First frictionless superfluid created - physics-math - 07 October 2010 - New Scientist

First frictionless superfluid created - physics-math - 07 October 2010 - New Scientist Superfluidity is a bizarre consequence of quantum mechanics. Cool helium atoms close to absolute zero and they start behaving as a single quantum object rather than a group of individual atoms. At this temperature, the friction that normally exists between atoms, and between atoms and other objects, vanishes, creating what is known as a superfluid. Robert McKellar of the National Research Council of Canada in Ottawa and colleagues turned to hydrogen, which exists as pairs of atoms. The team created a compressed mixture of hydrogen and carbon dioxide gas and shot it through a nozzle at supersonic speeds. Once released, the molecules spread apart, cooling and arranging themselves so that each CO2 molecule sat at the centre of a cluster of up to 20 hydrogens.

Robert Edwards Wins Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology for Pioneering In Vitro Fertilization [Update]: Scientific American

Robert Edwards Wins Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology for Pioneering In Vitro Fertilization [Update]: Scientific American Robert Edwards has won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work to develop in vitro fertilization (IVF), the Nobel committee announced Monday. The procedure allows a human egg to be fertilized outside of the body and then implanted in a woman's; it has been used as a treatment for infertility for more than three decades.

Beyond God and atheism: Why I am a 'possibilian' - opinion - 27 September 2010 - New Scientist

Beyond God and atheism: Why I am a 'possibilian' - opinion - 27 September 2010 - New Scientist When it comes to the big questions, why should we have to either deny God or believe? Surely good science doesn't so restrict us, says David Eagleman.When we reach the end of the pier of everything we know, we find that it only takes us part of the way. Beyond that all we see is uncharted water. Past the end of the pier lies all the mystery about our deeply strange existence: the equivalence of mass and energy, dark matter, multiple spatial dimensions, how to build consciousness, and the big questions of meaning and existence.

Indian scientists grow world's first GM "protato" spuds - Yahoo! India News

Indian scientists grow world's first GM "protato" spuds - Yahoo! India News A team of Indian scientists have grown for the first time, a genetically modified spud called 'protato' that makes up to 60 per cent more protein per gram than ordinary potatoes.

Real spray-on clothes to hit the catwalk - tech - 17 September 2010 - New Scientist

Real spray-on clothes to hit the catwalk - tech - 17 September 2010 - New Scientist

Class 12 marks, aptitude test for IIT entrance - India News - IBNLive

Class 12 marks, aptitude test for IIT entrance - India News - IBNLive

New Microscope Enables Real-Time 3-D Movies of Developing Embryos [Slide Show]: Scientific American

New Microscope Enables Real-Time 3-D Movies of Developing Embryos [Slide Show]: Scientific American: "Using a revolutionary new microscope, scientists can now peer into embryos and watch, in one of the world's smallest 3-D movies, as brains, eyes and other organs form."

For self-healing concrete, just add bacteria and food - tech - 01 September 2010 - New Scientist

For self-healing concrete, just add bacteria and food - tech - 01 September 2010 - New Scientist: "Like living bone, concrete could soon be healing its own hairline fractures – with bacteria in the role of osteoblast cells. Worked into the concrete from the beginning, these water-activated bacteria would munch food provided in the mix to patch up cracks and small holes."

Wonder conductors will spin up cooler computers - tech - 01 September 2010 - New Scientist

Wonder conductors will spin up cooler computers - tech - 01 September 2010 - New Scientist: "In the past five years, physicists have uncovered a new kind of material that can keep electrons on the straight and narrow, eliminating collisions and slashing the amount of heat produced. Called topological insulators, these materials conduct electricity by harnessing a quantum-mechanical property of electrons called spin."

Hydrogen bonds are caught on camera - physics-math - 20 August 2010 - New Scientist

Hydrogen bonds are caught on camera - physics-math - 20 August 2010 - New Scientist: "By affecting the way molecules bind to each other, hydrogen bonds are responsible for water's high boiling point, ice's propensity to float and DNA's signature double helix."

Can Science Explain the Soul?

Deepak Chopra | Deepak Chopra Official Website: "Redefined by the new field of quantum biology, the soul could be the link that connects individuals to the universe, a dynamic connection that could explain how consciousness came about, and why the cosmos itself seems to mirror our own intelligence and creativity."

Light-amplifying resin boosts invisibility cloaks - tech - 05 August 2010 - New Scientist

Light-amplifying resin boosts invisibility cloaks - tech - 05 August 2010 - New Scientist: "Metamaterials can bend light around objects to render them near-invisible, but they absorb so much light in the process that objects cannot be flawlessly disguised – they are revealed by the dimness of the metamaterial."

Smart glass helps pioneering solar sail to steer - space - 27 July 2010 - New Scientist

Smart glass helps pioneering solar sail to steer - space - 27 July 2010 - New Scientist: "T'S the trailblazer of solar sailing. Japan's IKAROS spacecraft has used 'smart glass' technology to steer using only the pressure of sunlight – a first for solar sails."

Viscosity at the nanoscale: Intriguing 50-year-old puzzle solved

Viscosity at the nanoscale: Intriguing 50-year-old puzzle solved: "ScienceDaily (July 13, 2010) — At a snail's pace -- this is how proteins should move inside living cells where viscosity of environment exceeds the viscosity of water by a million times. However, proteins move not much slower than in water. While looking for a solution to this puzzle, scientists from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences discovered a new principle of physics."

I-Micronews - NANOMATERIALS : Third frontier award will support production of ...

I-Micronews - NANOMATERIALS : Third frontier award will support production of ...: "A $3 million Ohio Third Frontier award to the University of Dayton Research Institute will fund the scale-up and production of a “game-changing” new nanomaterial that will allow composites to multitask – a wind turbine tower that can de-ice its own blades in winter, or store energy to release on a calm day, powering a grid even when its blades are not moving. Or a military vehicle whose armor can serve as a battery – powering some of the vehicle’s electrical components."

Improved carbon sponges to strip carbon dioxide from power plant exhausts

Improved carbon sponges to strip carbon dioxide from power plant exhausts: "A recently discovered class of materials called metal-organic frameworks that boast a record-shattering internal surface area. A sugar cube-sized piece, if unfolded and flattened, would more than blanket a football field. The crystalline material can also be tweaked to absorb specific molecules."

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