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Why nanowires make great photodetectors
04-25-2007 · EurekAlert!The geometry of semiconducting nanowires makes them uniquely suited for light detection, according to a new UC-San Diego study that highlights the possibility of nanowire light detectors with single-photon sensitivity.
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- NIST demos industrial-grade nanowire device fabrication
10-26-2007 · EurekAlert!
Nanowires have attracted a great deal of interest for their potential to build unique atomic-scale electronics, but manufacturers will need efficient, reliable methods to build them in quantity. NIST researchers believe they have one solution.
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- Interventions during hospital stays can help motivate smokers to quit
07-17-2007 · EurekAlert!
Hospitalized patients make a great captive audience for smoking cessation efforts, according to a new systematic review. When smokers become inpatients, regardless of the reason for admission, they are receptive to efforts to help them to quit smoking after discharge and more likely succeed in the long run.
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- OSU wheat breeder's genetic code-breaking means dollars to Oklahoma and region
08-16-2007 · EurekAlert!
Liuling Yan only joined Oklahoma State University's Division of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources last year, but that move is already helping the southern Great Plains states make major breakthroughs in wheat improvement.
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- Molecular level nanoelectronics a step closer to reality with DNA nanowire research
11-13-2007 · EurekAlert!
Biological and physical studies on DNA structure have revealed considerable interest into the electronic properties of DNA. Part of this interest is in using DNA as the basis for forming minute nanowires for use in ultra small nanoelectronics.
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- Stanford's nanowire battery holds 10 times the charge of existing ones
12-18-2007 · EurekAlert!
Stanford researchers have found a way to use silicon nanowires to increase the storage capacity of Lithium ion batteries by 10. A laptop that nows runs for two hours on battery could run a stunning 20 hours.
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- Healthy coral reefs hit hard by warmer temperatures
05-07-2007 · EurekAlert!
Coral disease outbreaks have struck the healthiest sections of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, where for the first time researchers have conclusively linked disease severity and ocean temperature. Close living quarters among coral may make it easy for infection to spread, researchers have found.
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- Healthy reefs hit hardest by warmer temperatures
05-07-2007 · EurekAlert!
Coral disease outbreaks hit hardest in the healthiest sections of the Great Barrier Reef, where close living quarters among coral may make it easy for infection to spread, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers have found.
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- Epilepsy genes may cancel each other
11-04-2007 · EurekAlert!
Inheriting two genetic mutations that can individually cause epilepsy might actually be 'seizure-protective,' said Baylor College of Medicine researchers in a report that appears online today in the journal Nature Neuroscience. "In the genetics of the brain, two wrongs can make a right," said Dr. Jeffrey L. Noebels, professor of neurology, neuroscience and molecular and human genetics at BCM. "We believe these findings have great significance to clinicians as we move toward relying upon genes to predict neurological disease."
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- Old dogs: Prior knowledge affects how consumers accept new information
02-12-2008 · EurekAlert!
Over time, consumers develop a set of cues that we then use to make inferences about products, such as "all French restaurants have great service" or "more expensive candles smell better." However, this set of predictable beliefs can make it difficult for us to learn and recognize other real, positive qualities that are indicated by the same cues, reveals a new study from the April issue of the Journal of Consumer Research.
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- Remote latrine reconfirms the presence of Essene sect at Qumran
11-13-2006 · EurekAlert!
Those who make a great show of being religiously pure often lead lives that are secretly very dirty -- or at least so it was in biblical times. Recent bioarchaeological findings at the ancient Dead Sea settlement of Qumran confirm the existence of a strange communal latrine -- located at a remote distance, conforming with extreme hygiene practices described in ancient texts and possibly accounting for a documented early mortality rate at the settlement.
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