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The Search for Perfect Blackness Continues
Researchers at Duke University and Boston College have developed a metamaterial (i.e., one which obtains its primary properties from structure rather than composition) that has proved to be a perfect ...
Fat is Neither Created or Destroyed
Almost everyone has battle with a little bulge in their figure. Regardless of the mechanism chosen to slim down, the basic goal has always been to lose the fat. New research has made a discovery tha...
The Fourth Basic Circuit Element
The "memristor", or memory resistor, previously resided as a theoretical fourth basic electric circuit element next to the resistor, capacitor and inductor. Its function is to "remember...
Room Temperature Superconductivity
A superconductor is a material that will conduct electricity without any resistance. This property would allow the transfer of energy without resistive heat loss enabling greater efficiencies in powe...
Proving an Age-Old Advertising Gimic
Most advertisers have known for a long time that "sex sells" especially when it comes to men; but Brian Knutson, assistant professor of psychology at Stanford University designed a study to ...
8 Glasses a Day Down the Drain
Doctors at the University of Pennsylvania are debunking a long held health myth that we should all drink 8 or more glasses of water a day. Misconceptions ranging from "it improves skin tone"...
Digital Ugliness Detection
Usually, people associate facial recognition software with high-tech authentication techniques or auto-focusing aids in their digital cameras. Researchers at the Tel Aviv University decided to use re...
Newly Developed Chip Can Sense Homemade Bombs
A very small and inexpensive chip which is capable of sensing trace amounts of hydrogen peroxide used in common homemade explosives has been developed by researchers at the University of California, S...
Research Finds Red Light Cameras Hazardous
Motorists always seem to be at odds with law enforcement whether its the laws themselves or the methods used to enforce them. Red Light Cameras have been installed around the nation as a method of mi...
Researchers Uncover a Gene's Role in Blocking HIV
Researchers at the University of Alberta have discovered a gene by the name of TRIM22 may hold the key to blocking the spread of the HIV virus. Dr. Stephen Barr and his team at the U of A found when t...
Scientists Continue to Study the Aesthetics of Women
Last year, OmniNerds argued over the merits of scientific research into the hip to waist ratio which resulted in the perfect "wiggle in the walk." Science, however, pushed forward anyway wi...