'Holey' Nanosheets for Wastewater Dye Removal
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have discovered that extremely thin sheets of nickel oxide with hexagonally shaped holes can absorb hazardous dyes from wastewater nearly as well as the best traditional methods, but are recyclable. ...
Genetic analysis reveals secrets of scorpion venom
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Transcriptomic tests have uncovered the protein composition of venom from the Scorpiops jendeki scorpion. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Genomics have carried out the first ever venom analysis in this arach ...
New treatment for receding gums: No pain, lots of gain
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Tufts dental researchers conducted a three-year follow-up study that examined the stability of a treatment option for receding gums and found that complete root coverage — the goal of the surgery — had been maintained. This ...
Bad medicine: Health care can cause harm when focus is on providing services instead of improving health
Jul 01, 2009 |
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Are individuals, families, communities and employers getting their money's worth from US healthcare? That's the big question in the news today, pushed further into the spotlight by the Obama administration.
Robots face off on football pitch, in kitchen at RoboCup 2009
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RoboCup 2009, the world's largest robotics event, kicked off Wednesday in the southern Austrian city of Graz, with some 400 teams and 2,000 robots ready to compete in sports and rescue operations.
Human cardiac master stem cells identified
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Harvard Stem Cell Institute researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have identified the earliest master human heart stem cell from human embryonic stem cells - ISL1+ progenitors - that ...
A glimpse at Intel's futuristic gadgets
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Wouldn't it be useful to have a gadget that immediately warned you when the information you just saw on the Internet or heard from a buddy might be baloney?
A young brain for an old bee
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Scientists have found that by switching the social role of honey bees, aging honey bees can keep their learning ability intact or even improve it. The research team is hoping to use them as a model to study ...
Astronomer's new guide to the galaxy: Largest map of cold dust revealed
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This new guide for astronomers, known as the APEX Telescope Large Area Survey of the Galaxy (ATLASGAL) shows the Milky Way in submillimetre-wavelength light (between infrared light and radio waves). Images ...
HP Introduces First Professional Workstation with Six-core AMD Opteron Processor
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HP today announced the integration of the highly anticipated Six-Core AMD Opteron 2400 Series processor into its family workstations.
Astronomers discover pair of solar systems in the making
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Two University of Hawai'i at Mānoa astronomers have found a binary star-disk system in which each star is surrounded by the kind of dust disk that is frequently the precursor of a planetary system. Doctoral ...
Wagner's 'difficult' reputation unwarranted says research
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The composer Richard Wagner is well-known, even notorious, for writing operas that can challenge both performers and listeners. A new study published in the Journal of the Acoustic Society of America reveal ...
A Super-Efficient Particle Accelerator
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This image of data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope shows a part of the roughly circular supernova remnant known as RCW 86.
Scientists develop novel ion trap for sensing force and light
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Miniature devices for trapping ions (electrically charged atoms) are common components in atomic clocks and quantum computing research. Now, a novel ion trap geometry demonstrated at the National Institute ...
New clue into how brain stem cells develop into cells which repair damaged tissue
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The joint research, funded by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and the UK MS Society as well as the National Institutes of Health and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, was conducted by scientists at the University ...
