First atomic–scale compositional images of fuel-cell nanoparticles
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 02, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In a step toward developing better fuel cells for electric cars and more, engineers at MIT and two other institutions have taken the first images of individual atoms on and near the surface ...
A new dinosaur species, Pachyrhinosaur lakustai, unveiled from Pipestone Creek, Alberta, Canada
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 02, 2008 |
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The fossils revealed a herd of dinosaurs that perished in a catastrophic event 72.5 million years ago. The animals are characterized by a bony frill on the back of the skull ornamented with smaller horns. ...
Scientists identify a molecule that coordinates the movement of cells
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Oct 02, 2008 |
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Even cells commute. To get from their birthplace to their work site, they sequentially attach to and detach from an elaborate track of exceptionally strong proteins known as the extracellular matrix. Now, in research to appear ...
Biochemists devise method for bypassing aluminum toxicity effects in plants
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Aluminum toxicity, a global agricultural problem, halts root growth in plants, severely limiting agricultural productivity for more than half of the world's arable land.
Cross kingdom conflicts on a beetle's back
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Oct 02, 2008 |
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Researchers from Harvard Medical School and the University of Madison-Wisconsin have discovered how beetles and bacteria form a symbiotic and mutualistic relationship—one that ultimately results in the destruction ...
Too many calories send the brain off kilter
Oct 02, 2008 |
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An overload of calories throws critical portions of the brain out of whack, reveals a study in the October 3rd issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication. That response in the brain's hypothalamus—the "headquarters" for ma ...
Study Pushes Appearance of Northern Hemisphere Ice Sheets Back By 22 Million Years
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 02, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Climatologist Robert DeConto of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and colleagues at four institutions are reporting in the Oct. 2 issue of the journal Nature that their latest climate model of the Northern ...
Religion makes people helpful and generous -- under certain conditions: UBC researchers
Oct 02, 2008 |
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Belief in God encourages people to be helpful, honest and generous, but only under certain psychological conditions, according to University of British Columbia researchers who analyzed the past three decades of social science ...
Sharpening up Jupiter
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A record two-hour observation of Jupiter using a superior technique to remove atmospheric blur has produced the sharpest whole-planet picture ever taken from the ground. The series of 265 snapshots obtained ...
6 environmental research studies reveal critical health risks from plastic
Oct 02, 2008 |
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Exposure to Bisphenol A (BPA), phthalates and flame retardants (PBDEs) are strongly associated with adverse health effects on humans and laboratory animals. A special section in the October 2008 issue of Environmental Re ...
Nanodiamond drug device could transform cancer treatment
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 02, 2008 |
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A Northwestern University research team has developed a promising nanomaterial-based biomedical device that could be used to deliver chemotherapy drugs locally to sites where cancerous tumors have been surgically ...
Research team discovers brain pathway responsible for obesity
Oct 02, 2008 |
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University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers, for the first time, have found a messaging system in the brain that directly affects food intake and body weight.
Pterodactyl-inspired robot to master air, ground and sea
Oct 02, 2008 |
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Paleontologist Sankar Chatterjee of Texas Tech University, aeronautical engineer Rick Lind of the University of Florida, and their students Andy Gedeon and Brian Roberts have reached back in time 115 million ...
Hubble's Celestial Landscape
Oct 02, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The landmark 10th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope's Hubble Heritage Project is being celebrated with a "landscape" image from the cosmos. Cutting across a nearby star-forming region ...
Under pressure at the nanoscale, polymers play by different rules
Oct 02, 2008 |
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Scientists putting the squeeze on thin films of polystyrene have discovered that at very short length scales the polymer doesn't play by the rules.
