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Researchers works on single molecular diode

Physics /

Mar 07, 2006 | 4.2 / 5 after 26 votes | no comments yet

Researchers from the University of South Florida, the University of Chicago and the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow) have recently developed the principles of operation and completed an experimental testing of a single ...

Nano World: Twin-barreled nano-eyedropper

Nanotechnology /

Mar 07, 2006 | 4.2 / 5 after 13 votes | no comments yet

Devices resembling crosses between eyedroppers and double-barreled shotguns only nanometers or billionths of a meter wide can create droplets 10 times smaller than a red blood cell for use as chemical reactors, experts told ...

Kurdish family walks on all fours

General Science /

Mar 07, 2006 | 2.6 / 5 after 28 votes | no comments yet

Five members of a Kurdish family in Turkey, who can only walk naturally on all fours, are being hailed as a unique insight into human evolution.

Research reveals hidden magnetism in superconductivity

Physics /

Mar 07, 2006 | 4.4 / 5 after 25 votes | no comments yet

While studying a compound made of the elements cerium- rhodium-indium, researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have discovered that a magnetic state can coexist with ...

Scientists warn of a Vesuvius eruption

Space & Earth science /

Mar 07, 2006 | 4.4 / 5 after 31 votes | no comments yet

U.S. and Italian scientists are warning the next eruption of Mount Vesuvius might be significantly more deadly than Italian authorities expect.

Petacache: Use that Memory

Physics /

Mar 07, 2006 | 4.5 / 5 after 18 votes | no comments yet

For decades, high energy experimental physicists have struggled with a fundamental problem: they simply have too much data to analyze quickly and in its entirety.

Dissertation explores sex and the Internet

Technology /

Mar 07, 2006 | 2 / 5 after 18 votes | no comments yet

A dissertation from Malmo University College in Sweden posits the Internet has created a space where people can experiment with their sexuality.

Study: humans are still evolving

General Science /

Mar 07, 2006 | 3.9 / 5 after 32 votes | no comments yet

Even as controversy continues over the theory of evolution, scientists say they've found the strongest evidence yet that humans are still evolving.

Study: Mona Lisa neither man nor da Vinci

General Science /

Mar 07, 2006 | 2.5 / 5 after 17 votes | no comments yet

A University of Illinois scientist says Mona Lisa probably wasn't a man, and it's even more unlikely it was a self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci.

Scientists find brain function most important to maths ability

General Science /

Mar 07, 2006 | 4.2 / 5 after 9 votes | no comments yet

Scientists at the University College London have discovered the area of the brain linked to dyscalculia, a maths learning disability. The finding shows that there is a separate part of the brain used for counting ...