Gravity waves could hold key to supersymmetry
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(PhysOrg.com) -- "In Geneva," Anupam Mazumdar tells PhysOrg.com, "there is a big effort to discover supersymmetry particles at the Large Hadron Collider. But that is not the only way to find these particles. We should also b ...
Giant simulation could solve mystery of 'dark matter'
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The search for a mysterious substance which makes up most of the Universe could soon be at an end, according to new research.
Tackling the big questions -- approaching a revolution in our understanding of gravity
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The way galaxies move through the cosmos has recently begun to baffle scientists. Even when the gravitational theories of Newton and Einstein are taken into account, the universe is expanding and galaxies ...
Could life have started in a lump of ice?
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The universe is full of water, mostly in the form of very cold ice films deposited on interstellar dust particles, but until recently little was known about the detailed small scale structure. Now the latest quick freezing ...
Rocks could be harnessed to sponge vast amounts of CO2 from air, says study
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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Scientists say that a type of rock found at or near the surface in the Mideast nation of Oman and other areas around the world could be harnessed to soak up huge quantities of globe-warming carbon dioxide. ...
Electron pairs precede high-temperature superconductivity
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Like astronomers tweaking images to gain a more detailed glimpse of distant stars, physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have found ways to sharpen ...
Skeleton of 12,000-year-old shaman discovered buried with leopard, 50 tortoises and human foot
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
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The skeleton of a 12,000 year-old Natufian Shaman has been discovered in northern Israel by archaeologists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The burial is described as being accompanied by "exceptional" ...
Scientists create tiny backpacks for cells
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
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(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT engineers have outfitted cells with tiny “backpacks” that could allow them to deliver chemotherapy agents, diagnose tumors or become building blocks for tissue engineering.
Cancer patient genome sequenced for the first time
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For the first time, scientists have decoded the complete DNA of a cancer patient and traced her disease - acute myelogenous leukemia - to its genetic roots. A large research team at the Genome Sequencing Center ...
The overall channels of the lightning discharges
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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A new narrowband radio interferometer system has been developed for continuous observation of various processes of a lightning discharge at a time resolution of one microsecond. By using this system, a cloud-to-ground lightning ...
Death by hyperdisease: DNA detective work explains the extinction of Christmas Island's native rats
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It took less than a decade for native rats to become extinct on the Indian Ocean's previously uninhabited Christmas Island once Eurasian black rats jumped ship onto the island at the turn of the 20th century. ...
Nighttime tornadoes are worst nightmare
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study by Northern Illinois University scientists underscores the danger of nighttime tornadoes and suggests that warning systems that have led to overall declines in tornado death rates ...
Study shows pine bark reduces jetlag
Medicine & Health / Medications
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A new study published in the journal of Minerva Cardioangiologica reveals Pycnogenol, pine bark extract from the French maritime pine tree, reduces jetlag in passengers by nearly 50 percent. The two-part study, consisting ...
Dopamine is key to a parasite’s ability to unite rat and cat, researcher says
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Who knew cat urine could be sexy? With a dab here and a dab there, you can have male rats swooning over you.
Completely novel action of insulin unveiled
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A PhD student at Sydney's Garvan Institute of Medical Research has uncovered an important piece in the puzzle of how insulin works, a problem that has plagued researchers for more than 50 years. This finding brings us one ...
