Lithium batteries, with their exceptional ability to store power per a given weight, have been a major focus of research to enable use in everything from portable electronics to electric cars. Now researchers at MIT and Brookhaven ...
Materials Science
Jan 9, 2014
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Consider the dandelion and the bristlecone pine, says Utah State University ecologist Peter Adler.
Ecology
Jan 9, 2014
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The online currency Bitcoin has shown unexpected success but its future as a broadly accepted exchange medium is limited, according to a report by a global banking group Thursday.
Internet
Jan 9, 2014
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While many of the digital glitterati thronging this week's Consumer Electronics Show were wearing Google's new Internet glasses, rival online eyewear products abounded among the trade stands.
Consumer & Gadgets
Jan 9, 2014
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We've become weather wimps.
Environment
Jan 9, 2014
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A comparison of Y chromosomes in eight African and eight European men dispels the common notion that the Y's genes are mostly unimportant and that the chromosome is destined to dwindle and disappear.
Biotechnology
Jan 9, 2014
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So long, Hot Wheels. You just got lapped by toy race-car company Anki, which showcased its iPhone-controlled car game at Apple's developers conference in June. At the International CES gadget show in Las Vegas this week, ...
Consumer & Gadgets
Jan 9, 2014
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A new report says personal computer sales slipped even further during the holiday shopping season, capping the worst annual decline in the PC industry's history.
Business
Jan 9, 2014
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Rice University researchers have engineered cells to characterize how sensitively altering the cooperative functions of motor proteins can regulate the transport of organelles.
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 9, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville have pioneered a new technique for forming a two-dimensional, single-atom sheet of two different ...
Nanophysics
Jan 9, 2014
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