Sensitive nanowire disease detectors made by Yale scientists
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 10, 2008 |
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Yale scientists have created nanowire sensors coupled with simple microprocessor electronics that are both sensitive and specific enough to be used for point-of-care (POC) disease detection, according to a report in Nano Le ...
Researchers team up to probe iron-arsenic superconductors with new instrument
Oct 10, 2008 |
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Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory are part of collaborative team that's used a brand new instrument at the DOE's Spallation Neutron Source to probe iron-arsenic compounds, the "hottest" new find ...
Researchers Study Coastal Hazards of Increasing Wave Heights, Rising Sea Levels
Oct 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- While hurricanes Gustav and Ike were pummeling the Gulf Coast with rains and record flooding, researchers at Oregon State University were studying why wave heights in the Pacific Ocean have been increasing ...
Is it a bird, is it a plane? No it's supercopter
Oct 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Unmanned helicopters could soon be a key part of emergency relief operations, as well as bringing a new dimension to filmmaking, thanks to some innovative work done by European researchers.
NASA supercomputer shows how dust rings point to exo-Earths
Oct 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Supercomputer simulations of dusty disks around sunlike stars show that planets nearly as small as Mars can create patterns that future telescopes may be able to detect. The research points ...
Does it matter if black plus white equals black or multiracial?
Oct 10, 2008 |
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"Is Barack Obama Black or Biracial?" a recent CNN.com headline asks. The question of whether Obama should be considered black or multiracial has been a concern of the media throughout the campaign.
Transparency in politics can lead to greater corruption
Oct 10, 2008 |
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Why are some countries more prone to political corruption? Viviana Stechina from Uppsala University, Sweden, has investigated why corruption among the political elite was more extensive in Argentina than in Chile during ...
Researchers developing wireless soil sensors to improve farming
Oct 10, 2008 |
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Ratnesh Kumar keeps his prototype soil sensors buried in a box under his desk. He hopes that one day farmers will be burying the devices under their crops.
Fujitsu Develops World's First GaN HEMT Able to Cut Power in Standby Mode and Achieve High Output
Oct 10, 2008 |
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Fujitsu today announced the development of a new type of gallium nitride (GaN)-based high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) that features a new structure ideal for use in amplifiers for microwave and millimeter-wave ...
ASU Mars instrument gets new lease on life as NASA extends Mars Odyssey mission
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 10, 2008 |
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A six-minute rocket firing on Sept. 30 has put NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft on track for a new orbit around the Red Planet. The change, part of a two-year extension for the mission, will give an ASU-operated instrument ...
Tobacco smuggling is killing more people than illegal drugs
Oct 10, 2008 |
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Tobacco smuggling causes around 4,000 premature deaths a year—four times the number of deaths caused by the use of all smuggled illegal drugs put together—but the UK government is not doing enough to tackle the problem, claim ...
Just a numbers game? Making sense of health statistics
Oct 10, 2008 |
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Presidential candidates use them to persuade voters, drug companies use them to sell their products, and the media spin them in all kinds of ways, but nobody - candidates, reporters, let alone health consumers - understands ...
Scientists identify gene that may make humans more vulnerable to pulmonary tuberculosis
Oct 10, 2008 |
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Researchers from the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) and its collaborators have now identified for the first time a new gene that may confer susceptibility to pulmonary tuberculosis. Their findings, published October ...
Fat-regenerating 'stem cells' found in mice
Biology /
Oct 10, 2008 |
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Researchers have identified stem cells with the capacity to build fat, according to a report in the October 17th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication. Although they have yet to show that the cells can renew ...
Research shows link between bisphenol A and disease in adults
Oct 10, 2008 |
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A research team from the Peninsula Medical School, the University of Exeter, the University of Plymouth and the University of Iowa, have found evidence linking Bisphenol A (BPA) to diabetes and heart disease in adults.
