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Personality type linked to risk of death among individuals with peripheral artery disease
A preliminary study suggests that a negative, inhibited personality type (type D personality) appears to predict an increased risk of death over four years among patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD), according to a report in the August issue of Archives of Surgery.
Integrated solar panels get a boost
The 2010 Toyota Prius has ‘em. The White House is on its second set. Israel just rolled out a pretty slick array.
It seems like electricity-bill-reducing solar panels are showing up just about everywhere these days (including space!)
But if a rooftop array seems out of the question, or if this isn’t …
Presto! Fast color-changing material may lead to more powerful computers (w/Video)
(PhysOrg.com) — Researchers in Japan are reporting development of a new so-called “photochromic” material that changes color thousands of times faster than conventional materials when exposed to light.
"Flextronics" — The Discovery Files
Researchers at Cornell University and the University of Melbourne, Australia, are fabricating organic semiconducting materials from a gentle solvent called Supercritical Carbon Dioxide.
“High Life” — The Discovery Files
A University of Colorado at Boulder research team has determined that gases rising from deep within the Earth, fuel the world’s highest known microbial ecosystems, which were detected near the rim of the Socompa volcano in the Andes.