India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft reaches its final orbit
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India’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft successfully reached its final operational orbit around the Moon on 12 November 2008. The spacecraft is now circling the Moon at an altitude of about 100 km.
Protecting neurons could halt Alzheimer's, Parkinson's diseases
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Researchers at Southern Methodist University (SMU) and The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) have identified a group of chemical compounds that slow the degeneration of neurons, a condition behind old-age diseases like ...
First live rhinoceros birth from frozen-thawed semen
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There may be less than 20,000 rhinoceros in the world, with one species perhaps already extinct and another with possibly only four animals remaining in the wild. As the populations of these animals age and become infirm, ...
A single gene leads yeast cells to cooperate against threats
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An ingenious social behavior that mobilizes yeast cells to cooperate in protecting each other from stress, antibiotics, and other dangers is driven by the activity of a single gene, scientists report this week in the journal ...
Students, engineers set record fuel-cell-powered, radio-controlled airplane flight
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The longest fuel-cell-powered flight of a radio-controlled aerial vehicle has been achieved by students at the University of Michigan and engineers at Ann Arbor-based fuel-cell manufacturer Adaptive Materials ...
Arsenic linked to cardiovascular disease at EPA-regulated drinking water standards
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When mice are exposed to arsenic at federally-approved levels for drinking water, pores in liver blood vessels close, potentially leading to cardiovascular disease, say University of Pittsburgh researchers in the Dec. 1 issue ...
Space researchers developing tool to help disoriented pilots
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Not knowing which way is up can have deadly consequences for pilots. This confusion of the senses, called spatial disorientation, is responsible for up to 10 percent of general aviation accidents in the United States, with ...
Helping children and teens deal with stress in an uncertain time
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Nov 13, 2008 |
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As families across the country face losses of nest eggs, homes or jobs, their young children and teens need emotional support.
NASA Tests Lunar Rovers and Oxygen Production Technology
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Nov 13, 2008 |
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NASA has concluded nearly two weeks of testing equipment and lunar rover concepts on Hawaii's volcanic soil. The agency's In Situ Resource Utilization Project, which studies ways astronauts can use resources ...
Female embryonic sexual development driven by universal factor
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A gene essential to the growth and development of most organ systems in the body also is vital to female – but not male – embryonic sexual development, scientists report this month.
Measuring water from space
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 13, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Observations from satellites now allow scientists to monitor changes to water levels in the sea, in rivers and lakes, in ice sheets and even under the ground. As the climate changes, this information will ...
Let the games begin! Nanosoccer at 2009 RoboCup in Austria
Nov 13, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The World Cup may be two years away, but soccer aficionados can get an early start at satisfying their yen for global competition when the National Institute of Standards and Technology and ...
'Femtomolar Optical Tweezers' May Enable Sensitive Blood Tests
Nov 13, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Cutting-edge “tweezers” are so sensitive that they can feel the tell-tale tug of tiny concentrations of pathogens in blood samples, yet don’t ever need to be sterilized—or even held—as they ...
Probing Question: Do women have a higher pain threshold than men?
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It’s a familiar sitcom scene: A woman in labor shows Herculean strength while her “birth coach” husband faints dead away.
Complex systems and Mars missions help understand how life began
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 13, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Understanding how life started remains a major challenge for science. At a European Science Foundation (ESF) and COST ‘Frontiers of Science’ conference in Sicily in October, scientists discussed two new approaches ...
