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Parts of the custom-made "Green Monster" used to cover the Boylston Street (Boston) retail store glass façade have fetched $500 on eBay, ifoAppleStore is reporting. The proceeds from the sale will go to the Boston-based boston2portland charity, which funds research on Parkinson's disease."The expensive, custom-m... |
9 June 2008
04:37 GMT |
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Typical laser diodes generally found in optical storing devices such as Blu-ray, DVD and CD players are currently being fabricated out of inorganic semiconductors like gallium arsenide, gallium nitride and other semiconductor alloys related to them. Now, researchers have demonstrated a class of plastic semiconductor ... |
27 May 2008
05:28 GMT |
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Many contaminants have a more subtle effect than simply killing cells. Some mimic hormones, like sex hormones. A team from Yale School of Medicine has presented at the 2008 Society for Gynecologic Investigation (SGI) Annual Scientific Meeting held on March 26-29 in San Diego, California, a study detailing how synthet... |
2 April 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Could you imagine a world without plastic? Everything around us is plastic, from the wrapping of our food and beverage bottles to clothes and the mouse you are touching right now. Bisphenol A (BPA) is one of the most common chemicals in plastics, from sunglasses, dental fillings and CDs to water and food containers a... |
1 April 2008
16:16 GMT |
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The new foldable integrated silicon circuits developed at the University of Illinois could turn the brittle electronic devices we use today into elastic silicon and plastic circuits only 1.5 micrometers thick, that can absorb the mechanical stress applied on them without suffering any damage. The inventor of the devi... |
28 March 2008
09:28 GMT |
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I don't know about you, but I have a feeling something is going on inside alien princess Rihanna's mind - something big. It may be a virus of sorts, or a recessive kinky alien gene that's just starting to kick in, otherwise I can't explain why her love of racy S&M outfits seems to be growing inste... |
28 February 2008
06:44 GMT |
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Bisphenol A (BPA) was investigated in the 1930s during the search for synthetic estrogens. Diethylstilbestrol proved more powerful than estrogen, so bisphenol A was not used as a synthetic estrogen. Currently, it is a primary monomer in polycarbonate plastic and epoxy resins. Bisphenol A is also employed as an antiox... |
31 January 2008
04:52 GMT |
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We live in a world of plastic. All we eat or drink touches plastic. We handle plastics all the time. Our clothes can be made of plastic. But the plastic era comes with its toll on our health. Bisphenols, common in plastics, from sunglasses, dental fillings and CDs to water and food containers and shockproof baby bott... |
14 December 2007
14:06 GMT |
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I have no idea why Michael Jackson doesn't stick to what he does best: good music. I mean, don't get me wrong, I think he's a landmark in pop history, an icon, an idol, whatever you want - but one thing cannot be denied: he doesn't score too many points in the looks department - not anymore, at le... |
12 December 2007
10:46 GMT |
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Plastics may be toxic, but this one could clean the atmosphere of green house effect gases. A specially developed plastic imitating cell membrane can take carbon dioxide out of natural gas, lowering the quantities of this greenhouse gas dumped into the atmosphere. The new material could also extract natural gas from ... |
25 October 2007
08:40 GMT |
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Science fiction materials have turned real. Steel strong plastic has been created by a team at the University of Michigan by imitating the brick-and-mortar molecular structure of the seashells. But unlike steel, the new material is lighter and transparent, even if not stretchy enough. The new plastic is built of lay... |
5 October 2007
04:23 GMT |
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Magic has turned into reality. A remarkable achievement has been made by an American team: the world's first real invisibility cloak, a device turning an object invisible in the visible spectrum. But don't get your hopes up: the technique works only in two dimensions and on a tiny scale so far.The new cloak... |
3 October 2007
03:49 GMT |
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Any physician, dietician, or fitness instructor will tell you that two factors are necessary to look good after the age of 20: diet and exercising. But if you're a couch potato aged 40, and your life's centered around alcohol, smoking and white nights, there is one last chance: plastic surgery. Only in 2006... |
29 September 2007
04:05 GMT |
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Plastic is everywhere around us, and nowadays we almost drink from nothing else than plastic containers. It's so fancy to carry with you a plastic bottle and drink your water / juice / soda little by little. But while US bottled water sales are going up by an annual 9.7 %, on a market estimated at approximately ... |
16 August 2007
07:06 GMT |
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We live in an era of plastic. All around you is plastic. I bet not 5 minutes go by without you touching something made of plastic. Even your food and drink come wrapped in plastic. Now a panel of 38 researchers said that Bisphenol A - a main ingredient in hard plastics and one of the most common chemicals around us -... |
7 August 2007
14:06 GMT |
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Glass, even the one used in windows, has always fascinated scientists and not only due to its transparency. Like other solids, such as acrylic and polycarbonate, glass has a weird structure, which is not crystalline but disordered at the atomic scale.Essentially, glass is a liquid frozen in time. This freezing, howe... |
27 July 2007
08:58 GMT |
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A new color-changing technology could have many practical applications, from letting you know if your dollar bill is counterfeit simply by stretching it to see if it changes hue, to showing you what food in your fridge is spoiled.Developed by scientists at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom and the ... |
26 July 2007
11:07 GMT |
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A new solid state laser could provide novel environmentally friendly lighting solutions, by using high-efficiency fluorescent laser dyes in a high temperature co-polymer matrix. Solid state laser use a solid gain medium, like glass or a crystalline host material, but this one uses a new one, plastic.The self-healing... |
23 July 2007
10:29 GMT |
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Plastics are probably the most widespread artificial material in the world, mainly due to the low price and incredible versatility which led to a rapid expansion of plastic compounds in almost all industry areas.However, there's one problem. The same characteristics that made plastic so popular today are the m... |
3 July 2007
08:20 GMT |
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Plastic nanofibers are far superior to silicon components in terms of power consumption, radiation hardness and heat dissipation. These fibers, invisible to the naked eye, could be used in future applications like transparent electronic devices, self-cleaning surfaces and biomedical tools able to manipulate strands ... |
29 June 2007
05:05 GMT |
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Plastics are made of semisynthetic polymerization products composed of organic condensation or addition polymers and may contain other substances to improve performance or economics. Their widespread use made them indispensable in almost all industry areas.There are methods by which plastics can be broken back down... |
27 June 2007
16:36 GMT |
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Plastics are durable and degrade very slowly. One of the main advantages of this material is the low price and incredible versatility, which led to a rapid expansion of plastic compounds in almost all industry areas.The problem is that it's made of oil and should petroleum prices continue to rise, so will the c... |
27 June 2007
03:31 GMT |
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Plastics are made of semisynthetic polymerization products composed of organic condensation or addition polymers and may contain other substances to improve performance or economics. Their widespread use made them indispensable in almost all industry areas.Unfortunately, plastic polymers are durable and degrade very... |
15 June 2007
06:47 GMT |
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Everybody knows potatoes, some people love them, some people don't. But for the junk food addicts, there are some good news: future bags of chips may actually be made of potatoes, thus bringing the potato out of the bag and into the bag. A new study by the University of Maine's Margaret Chase Smith Policy ... |
7 June 2007
16:26 GMT |
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Plastics are made of semisynthetic polymerization products composed of organic condensation or addition polymers and may contain other substances to improve performance or economics. Their widespread use made them indispensable in almost all industry areas.Scientists from the University of Massachusetts Amherst were... |
30 May 2007
09:25 GMT |
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Shish-kebab is a tasty meat dish usually made of lamb and beef, but chicken is not excluded. Only pork. Now, a new type of shish-kebab is on the market, but it's made of polymers. And it's not edible.Shish-kebabs are nanoscale structures that form when polymers crystallize during flow, looking like a skewe... |
21 May 2007
05:51 GMT |
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You need a new tooth brush, or a battery cover for the cell phone, or your kid just broke a plastic component of his new toy and you don't have the time to go to a store. Soon, you will be able to create these items by yourself, at home.3-D printers will be the answer. You just get the blueprint of the objects ... |
14 May 2007
05:12 GMT |
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Nature may have created weird bloods like blue or colorless ones, but this is really odd: a team at Sheffield University has created artificial blood made of plastic. The synthetic plastic blood is not a long-term substitute for the real stuff but a substitute in emergencies like injured soldiers and crash victims,... |
12 May 2007
03:51 GMT |
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Plastics sheets can be turned into different shapes to serve industrial purposes, but they do not revert to their original state (plasticity is a property of a material to undergo a non-reversible change of shape in response to an applied force), and they definitely do not change shape by themselves.At least until n... |
13 April 2007
06:37 GMT |
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Olyaniline (PANI) is a conducting polymer of the semi-flexible rod polymer family, discovered in 1934 as anilin black, that can also exist naturally as part of a mixed copolymer with polyacetylene and polypyrrole in some melanins.A University of Texas at Austin researcher has modified this special plastic so that it... |
10 April 2007
09:55 GMT |
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The problem of the plastic contamination could be solved by biodegradable polymers made of poultry feathers, a solution that would also decrease costs in poultry industry. Only in the US over 29 million tons of non-biodegradable plastic waste reach the landfills yearly. "12 % of all plastic packaging ends up in landf... |
30 March 2007
07:10 GMT |
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Good news for winter sport lovers. A novel portable plastic splint that heat-molds itself around broken or wounded limbs is being designed to help skiers and others who enjoy taking part in extreme snow sports.To use the splint, the patient must wrap strips of resistant but flexible plastic bandage tightly around the... |
28 March 2007
06:49 GMT |
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International maritime laws currently forbid disposal of plastic materials at sea.Plastics are very tricky for the marine environment. They break down extremely slowly and the resulting products are very toxic. Moreover, some plastic can fool some species (like marine turtles) to be taken as jellyfish and many indivi... |
28 March 2007
04:06 GMT |
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Now we have finally found out why some people can be registered as qualified skunks and why some of our workmates subdue us daily to olfactive tortures!Look why: Phthalates are esters widely used for over 50 years in everything from plastics (to turn them flexible), PVC, soaps, cosmetics, shampoos, lotions, lubricant... |
16 March 2007
06:05 GMT |
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