Energy News from SciGuru.com for latest discoveries, inventions and developments in energy http://www.sciguru.com http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3813/Beware-the-smell-of-bitter-almonds.-Why-do-many-food-plants-contain-cyanide?-/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:10:50 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3813 In murder mysteries, the detective usually diagnoses cyanide poisoning by the scent of bitter almonds wafting from the corpse. The detective knows wha http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3810/Asteroid-Impact-in-2182?/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:55:47 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3810 Scientists are reporting that a 560-meter diameter asteroid could hit the Earth in the year 2182. "The total impact probability of asteroid '(101955) http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3809/Martian-Dust-Devil-Whirls-into-Opportunity's-View/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:28:58 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3809 In its six-and-a-half years on Mars, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity had never seen a dust devil before this month, despite some systematic http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3805/Best-hope-for-saving-Arctic-sea-ice-is-cutting-soot-emissions,-says-Stanford-researcher/ Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:07:31 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3805 Soot from the burning of fossil fuels and solid biofuels contributes far more to global warming than has been thought, according to a new Stanford stu http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3800/Quantum-fractals-at-the-border-of-magnetism/ Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:31:39 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3800 U.S., German and Austrian physicists studying the perplexing class of materials that includes high-temperature superconductors are reporting this week http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3799/Calcium-Connections:-Penn-Researchers-Discover-Basic-Pathway-for-Maintaining-Cell's-Fuel-Stores/ Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:34:26 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3799 University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine researchers have described a previously unknown biological mechanism in cells that prevents them from ca http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3797/Caltech-Astronomer-Finds-Planets-in-Unusually-Intimate-Dance-around-Dying-Star-/ Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:18:32 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3797 Hundreds of extrasolar planets have been found over the past decade and a half, most of them solitary worlds orbiting their parent star in seeming iso http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3794/Findings-show-promise-for-nuclear-fusion-test-reactors/ Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:38:13 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3794 Researchers have discovered mechanisms critical to interactions between hot plasma and surfaces facing the plasma inside a thermonuclear fusion reacto http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3792/Stars-Just-Got-Bigger:-A-300-Solar-Mass-Star-Uncovered/ Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:32:26 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3792 Using a combination of instruments on ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have discovered the most massive stars to date, one weighing at birth mo http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3791/The-Flight-of-Migrating-Microbes/ Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:17:09 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3791 Every day, millions of microorganisms travel with the wind from one place on Earth to another. Bacteria, funguses and viruses on dust particles can mo http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3790/Scientists-Set-Sail-to-Map-the-Arctic-Seafloor/ Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:03:42 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3790 American and Canadian scientists are setting sail this summer to map the Arctic seafloor and gather data to help define the outer limits of the contin http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3787/Caltech-Team-Finds-Evidence-of-Water-in-Moon-Minerals/ Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:50:50 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3787 That dry, dusty moon overhead? Seems it isn't quite as dry as it's long been thought to be. Although you won't find oceans, lakes, or even a shallow p http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3786/Muscle-gene-may-provide-new-treatments-for-obesity-and-diabetes/ Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:48:52 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3786 Skeletal muscle enables us to walk, run or play a musical instrument, but it also plays a crucial role in controlling disease. Rockefeller University http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3782/First-results-from-Large-Hadron-Collider-announced/ Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:39:38 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3782 A group of University of Toronto high-energy physicists, along with their 3,000 ATLAS colleagues, announced they have broken world records in the sear http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3774/Nanoparticles-Increase-Intensity-of-Quantum-Dots'-Glow/ Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:51:31 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3774 By linking individual semiconductor quantum dots with gold nanoparticles, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Labo http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3773/Detector-Technology-Could-Help-NASA-Find-Earth-like-Exoplanets-/ Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:03:31 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3773 The hunt is on for Earth-like planets outside of our solar system. Since the 1990s, astronomers have detected more than 450 extrasolar planets-mostly http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3764/The-World's-Smallest-Cup-of-Water:-Location-of-water-relative-to-prototypic-protein/ Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:40:15 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3764 By combining theoretical and experimental expertise in the United States, Japan, and France, a team of scientists determined that a water molecule (gu http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3763/Polymer-synthesis-could-aid-future-electronics/ Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:28:41 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3763 Tomorrow's television and computer screens could be brighter, clearer and more energy-efficient as a result of a process developed by a team of resear http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3756/Newly-discovered-asteroid-named-for-Nobel-laureate-Elie-Wiesel/ Sat, 24 Jul 2010 08:48:08 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3756 Last May, a minor planet-also known as an asteroid-discovered by an amateur astronomer was officially named "Eliewiesel" in honor of 1986 Nobel Peace http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3752/Neuroscience:-Watching-and-Learning-from-Flies-on-the-March-/ Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:04:34 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3752 Using a microscope, a floating foam ball, and rock-steady hands, Janelia Farm researchers have developed a way to measure the brain activity of a frui