Cluster opens a new window on 'magnetic reconnection' in the near-Earth space
Mar 12, 2007 |
4.8 / 5 (8) |
0
Plasma physicists have made an unprecedented measurement in their study of the Earth's magnetic field. Thanks to ESA's Cluster satellites they detected an electric field thought to be a key element in the process ...
Engineers are first to measure lightning-caused polluting gas
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 12, 2007 |
4.6 / 5 (8) |
0
A flash of light, a boom of thunder, a puff of smog? Researchers have long known that lightning produces lots of nitrogen oxide. Power plants and cars also give off the gas, which is a big ingredient in smog.
Intel Introduces Solid State Drive Product Line Based On NAND Flash Memory
Mar 12, 2007 |
3.6 / 5 (10) |
0
Intel Corporation announced today its entry into solid state drives with the Intel Z-U130 Value Solid-State Drive. Based on NAND flash memory with industry standard USB interfaces, the Intel Z-U130 Value Solid ...
Study: Long legs are more efficient
Biology /
Mar 12, 2007 |
4 / 5 (8) |
0
Scientists have known for years that the energy cost of walking and running is related primarily to the work done by muscles to lift and move the limbs. But how much energy does it actually take to get around? Does having ...
IBM Announces Production of Cell Chip at 65nm
Mar 12, 2007 |
4.5 / 5 (6) |
0
IBM announced today that the company has begun producing a new, 65 nanometer version of the Cell Broadband Engine at IBM's state-of-the-art East Fishkill, New York microchip production facility.
A Hot Start Might Explain Geysers on Enceladus
Mar 12, 2007 |
4.3 / 5 (6) |
0
A hot start billions of years ago might have set into motion the forces that power geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus.
CryoSat-2 on the road to recovery
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 12, 2007 |
4.8 / 5 (4) |
0
Building a satellite in just three years is without doubt an ambitious undertaking. Nevertheless, the decision to rebuild CryoSat and recover the mission includes just that goal. A year on and the mission is ...
Secret of worm's poison pill box protein could produce new natural insecticide
Mar 12, 2007 |
4.8 / 5 (4) |
0
Researchers at the University of Warwick have discovered how a protein from a bacterium acts like a cunningly designed poison pill box that could now be used as a basis of a new range of natural insecticides. It had been ...
A rarity among arachnids, whip spiders have a sociable family life
Biology /
Mar 12, 2007 |
4.8 / 5 (4) |
0
Whip spiders, considered by many to be creepy-crawly, are giving new meaning to the term touchy-feely. In two species of whip spiders, or amblypygids, mothers caress their young with long feelers, siblings ...
Study questions 'cancer stem cell' hypothesis in breast cancer
Mar 12, 2007 |
3.8 / 5 (5) |
0
A Dana-Farber Cancer Institute study challenges the hypothesis that "cancer stem cells" – a small number of self-renewing cells within a tumor – are responsible for breast cancer progression and recurrence, and that wiping ...
Molecular differences between early and advanced melanomas could provide new drug targets
Mar 12, 2007 |
4.7 / 5 (3) |
0
The cell-signaling molecule Akt is a primary trigger that leads malignant melanomas on the skin's surface to begin growing vertically beneath the skin and turn into deadly invasive cancers, scientists have found. Understanding ...
Study reveals how some molecules inhibit growth of lung cancer cells
Mar 12, 2007 |
4.3 / 5 (3) |
0
By mapping the interlocking structures of small molecules and mutated protein "receptors" in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cells, scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and their colleagues have energized efforts ...
New technology shows old faults are smoother than young ones
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 12, 2007 |
4 / 5 (3) |
0
Old earthquake faults appear to be smoother than young ones, worn smooth over time by friction like the brake pads of an old car.
Anxiety disorders surprisingly common yet often untreated
Mar 12, 2007 |
3.3 / 5 (3) |
0
A new study by researchers led by Kurt Kroenke, M.D., of the Indiana University School of Medicine and the Regenstrief Institute, Inc. reports that nearly 20 percent of patients seen by primary care physicians have at least ...
Uncovered: The 'lost' paper Churchill kept from publication
Mar 12, 2007 |
3.3 / 5 (3) |
0
An article that Winston Churchill wrote but then banned from publication because of its “perverse” messages about the persecution of Jews has been uncovered by a Cambridge University historian.
