Complex ocean behavior studied with 'artificial upwelling'
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 02, 2008 |
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A team of scientists is studying the complex ocean upwelling process by mimicking nature – pumping cold, nutrient-rich water from deep within the Pacific Ocean and releasing it into surface waters near Hawaii that lack the ...
Wi-Spy 2.4x Spectrum Analyzer
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Sep 02, 2008 |
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This all new version has both its hardware and software upgraded. The Wi-Spy is the world's smallest 2.4 GHz spectrum analyzer that helps troubleshoot and analyze Wi-Fi networks for interference.
A sharper look at malaria
Sep 02, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In work that could lead to new ways of detecting and treating malaria, MIT researchers have used two advanced microscopy techniques to show in unprecedented detail how the malaria parasite ...
Galaxy Zoo -- an Internet superstar
Sep 02, 2008 |
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Since Galaxy Zoo's launch in July 2007, some 150,000 members of the public, inspired by the opportunity to be the first to see and classify a galaxy, have helped professional astronomers via this on-line mass-participation ...
Study: Teen suicide spike was no fluke
Sep 02, 2008 |
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A troubling study in the September 3rd Journal of the American Medical Association raises new concerns about kids committing suicide in this country. After a one year spike in the number of suicides, doctors were hoping to see ...
Single Crystals as Reaction Vessels
Sep 02, 2008 |
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Japanese researchers from the University of Tokyo have made a complex that crystallizes as a porous solid. Common reagents, even bulky ones, can easily diffuse into these pores and are sufficiently mobile to react with embedded ...
Researchers piece together gene 'network' linked to schizophrenia
Sep 02, 2008 |
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Reporting this week in the Archives of General Psychiatry, researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have uncovered for the first time molecular circuitry associated with schizophrenia that links three ...
New discovery about growth factor can be breakthrough for cancer research
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Sep 02, 2008 |
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A research team at the Ludwig Institute and Uppsala University has discovered an entirely new signal path for a growth factor that is of crucial importance for the survival and growth of cancer cells. This discovery, published ...
Understanding the science of solar-based energy: more researchers are better than one
Sep 02, 2008 |
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View a video of MIT scientists explaining how they recently discovered a catalyst that produces oxygen gas from water.
Age-related memory loss tied to slip in filtering information quickly
Sep 02, 2008 |
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Scientists have identified a way in which the brain's ability to process information diminishes with age, and shown that this break down contributes to the decreased ability to form memories that is associated with normal ...
Virus weaves itself into the DNA transferred from parents to babies
Sep 02, 2008 |
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Parents expect to pass on their eye or hair color, their knobby knees or their big feet to their children through their genes. But they don't expect to pass on viruses through those same genes.
Study finds B-vitamin deficiency may cause vascular cognitive impairment
Sep 02, 2008 |
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A deficiency of B-vitamins may cause vascular cognitive impairment, according to a new study. Researchers at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNRCA) at Tufts University used an experimental model ...
Analysis Begins on Deepest Martian Soil Sample
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 02, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have begun to analyze a sample of soil delivered to NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's wet chemistry experiment from the deepest trench dug so far in the Martian arctic plains. Phoenix ...
Scientists find second site for prostate cancer gene
Sep 02, 2008 |
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Scientists at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and colleagues who are studying a prostate cancer gene called HNF1B have found a second independent site within the HNF1B gene on chromosome 17 (17q12) – increasing ...
Parallel 'nano-soldering' technique chosen for year's top-50 by Nanotech Briefs
Sep 02, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- You should have so much patience to solder nanowires to nanoelectrodes. Talk about fine work. That’s why a new electroplating process that simultaneously joins many silicon nanowires to many prepatterned ...
