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• Biofuel waste product recycled for electricity
• NASA's SDO sees massive filament erupt on sun
• Quest for Higgs boson enters new phase
• Showing the way to improved water-splitting catalysts: Chemists identify the mechanism by which such catalysts work
• Watching quantum mechanics in action: Researchers create world record laser pulse
• Waste silicon gets new life in lithium-ion batteries
• Every atom counts in graphene formation: Nanoreactor theory could advance quality of material’s growth
• Experts propose 'cyber war' on cancer: Universities aim to break cancer's codes for social networking
• Using magnetism to understand superconductivity
• Spinach power gets a big boost: Reseachers combine spinach protein with silicon to make biohybrid solar cell

Biofuel waste product recycled for electricity Posted: 04 Sep 2012 04:30 PM PDT A by-product of biofuel manufacture can power microbial fuel cells to generate electricity cheaply and efficiently, according to scientists. The work could help develop self-powered devices that would depollute waste water and be used to survey weather in extreme environments.

NASA's SDO sees massive filament erupt on sun Posted: 04 Sep 2012 04:26 PM PDT On August 31, 2012 a long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the sun's atmosphere, the corona, erupted out into space at 4:36 p.m. EDT. The coronal mass ejection, or CME, traveled at over 900 miles per second. The CME did not travel directly toward Earth, but did connect with Earth's magnetic environment, or magnetosphere, with a glancing blow. causing aurora to appear on the night of Monday, September 3.

Quest for Higgs boson enters new phase Posted: 04 Sep 2012 01:15 PM PDT This summer, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva announced the discovery of a new particle with a mass somewhere between 125 and 126 giga-electron volts, or 134 times the mass of the proton. This figure falls within the predicted range for the Higgs boson. So what's next? "This is the beginning. We still don't know what this thing is," says one researcher.

Showing the way to improved water-splitting catalysts: Chemists identify the mechanism by which such catalysts work Posted: 04 Sep 2012 12:01 PM PDT Scientists and engineers around the world are working to find a way to power the planet using solar-powered fuel cells. Such green systems would split water during daylight hours, generating hydrogen that could be stored and used later to produce water and electricity. But robust catalysts are needed to drive the water-splitting reaction. Now chemists have determined the mechanism by which some highly effective cobalt catalysts work.

Watching quantum mechanics in action: Researchers create world record laser pulse Posted: 04 Sep 2012 12:01 PM PDT A research team has created the world's shortest laser pulse and in the process may have given scientists a new tool to watch quantum mechanics in action -- something that has been hidden from view until now.

Waste silicon gets new life in lithium-ion batteries Posted: 04 Sep 2012 12:00 PM PDT Researchers have developed a way to make flexible components for rechargeable lithium-ion (LI) batteries from discarded silicon.

Every atom counts in graphene formation: Nanoreactor theory could advance quality of material’s growth Posted: 04 Sep 2012 10:53 AM PDT Researchers detail the atom-by-atom energies at play in the chemical vapor deposition process of creating graphene.

Experts propose 'cyber war' on cancer: Universities aim to break cancer's codes for social networking Posted: 04 Sep 2012 09:17 AM PDT Mounting evidence of intricate social cooperation among cancer cells has led researchers to suggest a new strategy for outsmarting cancer through its own social intelligence. The researchers call for a "cyber war" to co-opt the communications systems that allow cancer cells to work together to sense danger and avoid attacks by the immune system and chemotherapy drugs.

Using magnetism to understand superconductivity Posted: 04 Sep 2012 09:17 AM PDT Research in atomic scale magnetism could play a role in the development of new materials that could permit lossless electricity transmission.

Spinach power gets a big boost: Reseachers combine spinach protein with silicon to make biohybrid solar cell Posted: 04 Sep 2012 09:11 AM PDT Spinach power has just gotten a big boost. Researchers have combined the photosynthetic protein that converts light into electrochemical energy in spinach with silicon, the material used in solar cells, in a fashion that produces substantially more electrical current than has been reported by previous "biohybrid" solar cells.

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