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Breakthrough for carbon nanotube
materials
PhysOrg.com Sep. 29, 2008
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CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and
Industrial Research Organisation)
and the NanoTech Institute of the
University of Texas at Dallas have
achieved a major breakthrough in the
development of a commercially viable
manufacturing process for large
sheets of a range of materials made
from carbon nanotubes. They
demonstrated that synthetically...
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NREL Solar Cell Sets World
Efficiency Record at 40.8 Percent
ElectricalEngineer.com Sep. 29, 2008
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Scientists at the U.S. Department
of Energy's National Renewable
Energy Laboratory (NREL) have set a
world record in solar cell
efficiency with a photovoltaic
device that converts 40.8 percent of
the light that hits it into
electricity. The new design uses
compositions of gallium indium
phosphide and gallium indium
arsenide to split the solar...
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Invisibility cloaks could take
sting out of tsunamis
New Scientist Tech Sep. 29, 2008
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University of Liverpool researchers
have built a model of a metamaterial
cloaking structure that could
channel a tsunami around vulnerable
coastlines and offshore platforms.
(M Farhat/S Enoch/S Guenneau/A B...
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Forget black holes, could the LHC
trigger a "Bose supernova"?
the physics arXiv blog Sep. 29, 2008
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Could the 700,000 liters of
superfluid helium bathed in the
powerful magnetic fields of the
Large Hadron Collider (LHC) result
in a major explosion by behaving as
a supercold Bose Einstein Condensate
(BEC), which have been found to
explode when subjected to magnetic
fields, resulting in a "Bose
supernova"?...
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Detecting Brain Chemicals
Technology Review Sep. 30, 2008
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Scientists at the Mayo Clinic and
other institutions have developed a
new device that can detect
neurotransmitters quickly and
locally in the brain, which they
hope will help make deep brain
stimulation (DBS) more effective and
shed light on how it works. The
device consists of a sensor
electrode that can be implanted
along with the DBS...
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Applying Science to Alternative
Medicine
New York Times Sep. 29, 2008
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With a budget of $122 million this
year, The National Center for
Complementary and Alternative
Medicine is conducting clinical
trials of alternative medicine
methods in an effort to acquire
scientific evidence for or against
the claims....
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Logging On for a Second (or Third)
Opinion
New York Times Sep. 29, 2008
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New health-related online resources
allow people to research and share
information easily, upending the
top-down path of information between
doctors and patients. Today, said
Clay Shirky, an expert in the
evolving online world, patients are
"full-fledged actors in the...
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