Beyond batteries: Storing power in a sheet of paper
...lp power the battery. Details of the project are outlined in the paper Flexible Energy Storage Devices Based on Nanocomposite Paper published Aug. 13 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The semblance to paper is no accident: more than 90 percent of the device is made up of cellulose, t...Computer graphics spills from milk to medicine
...sakes of the Lorenz-Mie theory. The report clearly outlined the math and many of the assumptions that are central to Lorenz-Mie theory. Going through his assumptions carefully, we hit a series of ah-hah! moments in which we saw ways to address some of the assumptions that had made it difficult to generalize...FDA Nanotechnology Task Force takes positive step forward
... Finally, the extensive nanotechnology to do list outlined in the report should remind Congress, as it considers FDAs 2008 budget, that it needs to fix the problem of FDAs chronic underfunding. The agency urgently needs more resources to do what needs to be done on nanotechnologyand do it urgentlyalong with ...EPA foregoes opportunity to improve nanotechnology oversight
... in the EPAs inventory document. With the approach outlined by EPA and because of the weaknesses in the law, the agency is not even able to identify which substances are nanomaterials, much less determine whether they pose a hazard. Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies science advisor Andrew Maynard underli...The new wildlife refuge -- Golf courses?
...Bodie, senior scientist for Audubon International, outlined recommendations that would improve golf course habitats for amphibian populations in a paper published in USGA Turfgrass and Environmental Research Online in January. Their recommendations included buffering aquatic habitats from chemical runoff, sur...New approaches to endometriosis treatment -- mouse experiments point the way
...ts up to 15% of women of reproductive age, will be outlined in the presentation of two experimental studies at the 23rd annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (Tuesday July 3). Both concern targeting angiogenesis the formation of new blood vessels which is encourages......d for mutating large, non-gene stretches of DNA is outlined in this weeks online edition of Nature Genetics. Capecchi and Wu conducted the research with two other University of Utah human geneticists: Guoxin Ying, a postdoctoral fellow, and Qiang Wu, an assistant professor (and no relation to Sen Wu). In t...Newly identified mechanism for silencing genes points to possible anti-cancer strategies
...n implicated in a number of cancers, and the newly outlined gene-silencing mechanism offers promising potential targets for anti-cancer interventions. "Some microRNAs closely match their sequences against particular messenger RNA sequences to target them for destruction," explains Ramin Shiekhattar, Ph.D., ...Satellites shed light on global warming
...vation Science at the University of Leicester, UK, outlined the importance of SST data at the symposium. Tracking SST over a long period is arguably the most reliable way researchers know of measuring the precise rate at which global temperatures are increasing and improves the accuracy of our climate chan...Nanotechnology provides 'green' path to environmentally sustainable economy
...r green nanoproducts, the recommended policy steps outlined in the report would help to ensure that the $8.3 billion taxpayer investment in nanotechnology, since the U.S. National Nanotechnology Initiative was established in 2001, pays off for the country and the environment. "We are on an unsustainable pa...Worldwide research network needed to really understand what is changing in the Arctic
...US, Ohio An Ohio State University geologist today outlined a new plan to oceanographers that would consolidate much of the world's studies on the Arctic region into a global observation network. "This is basically a plan to better understand how the Arctic is changing, but doing it in a new systematic, in...Cellulosic ethanol: Fuel of the future?
... State of the Union address, President George Bush outlined his plan to reduce the nation's dependency on foreign oil by requiring the production of 35 billion gallons a year of renewable and alternative fuels by 2017, roughly five times the current target set by Congress of 7.5 billion gallons by 2012. Amo...Changes in west coast marine ecosystems significant
...ne Die-Offs along the West Coast." This week, they outlined how marine ecosystems are responding to widely different climate-driven variables, beginning in 1997-98 with one of the most powerful El Nino episodes on record. During that El Nio, ocean waters off the West Coast grew warmer, nutrients decreased, b...FSU researchers determine a critical factor in workings of proteins
...the association rate for proteins. Their theory is outlined in the February issue of the scientific journal Structure. "A protein can have multiple targets or can be targeted by multiple molecules," said Professor Huan-Xiang Zhou, who serves on the faculty of FSU's School of Computational Science and depart...Good for the goose, not so great for the gander
...ing. "I certainly agree with the general argument" outlined in Tower's article, she said. "The two sexes represent completely different environments for expression of genes affecting life span. The challenge for the future is to understand this at a mechanistic level, and John's review is a significant step i...Green payments are the future of agricultural support
...al conservation strategy." The eight opportunities outlined by Merrigan in her testimony are: rewarding and motivating farmers by funding the CSP as intended removing caps to reduce the complexity and improve the transparency of the CSP increasing participation in the program by expanding technical ...Leeches ferry infection among newts
... mouthparts of a feeding leech. Their findings are outlined in the January issue of Journal of Parasitology. In 2004, Raffel and his Penn State colleagues Peter J. Hudson, professor of biology, and James R. Dillard, then an undergraduate student and now with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Prot......sponsible for Alzheimer's disease. The discovery, outlined in the Jan. 14 advance on-line edition of Nature Genetics (February print edition), shows how a team of researchers analyzed the faulty processing of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) long associated with Alzheimer's disease and linked it to a ne...Science's breakthrough of the year -- The Poincar Theorem
...ted on the Internet the first of three papers that outlined a proof of Poincars conjecture as part of an even more ambitious result. The work set experts abuzz. Though there were still many gaps to be filled in, it looked as if Perelman had scored a historic coup. But, after a visit to the United States in...Intelligent software solutions to better understand biological processes
...r. Ivan Baines, who fostered the collaboration and outlined the three year collaboration agreement between Transinsight and the MPI-CBG, is enthusiastic about the upcoming development. "This kind of research-industry collaboration allows us to influence developments towards our needs" he said. "With Transinsi...