Archive: 11/15/2008
Transforming Urine into Water: Astronauts to Install New Space Station Water System
Two hundred and fifty miles above the Earth puts you a long way from the nearest kitchen tap. And at $10,000 a pint, the cost of shipping fresh water aboard the space shuttle is, well, astronomical.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 15, 2008 |
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Glacial Erosion Changes Mountain Responses To Plate Tectonics
(PhysOrg.com) -- Intense glacial erosion has not only carved the surface of the highest coastal mountain range on earth, the spectacular St. Elias range in Alaska, but has elicited a structural response from ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 15, 2008 |
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Nanoparticles Deliver Their Cargo, Then Disappear
(PhysOrg.com) -- Medical researchers are looking at any number of new methods to get drugs to specific locations in the body. Some methods are efficient but less safe, while others are safe but often fail ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Nov 15, 2008 |
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Shade Tree Coverage Reduces Power Costs
An Auburn University study sheds new light on just how valuable shade trees are in reducing homeowners’ electricity bills during hot summer months.
Nov 15, 2008 |
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Protein compels ovarian cancer cells to cannibalize themselves
A protein known to inhibit the growth of ovarian cancer works in part by forcing cancer cells to eat themselves until they die, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center report in the Nov. 15 issue ...
Nov 15, 2008 |
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Putting a new spin on current research
Physicists in the USA and at the London Centre for Nanotechnology have found a way to extend the quantum lifetime of electrons by more than 5,000 per cent, as reported in this week's Physical Review Letters. Electr ...
Nov 15, 2008 |
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Genetics of aging and cancer resistance
In the November 15th issue of G&D, Dr. Kenneth Dorshkind and colleagues at the David Geffen School of Medicine (UCLA) have identified two genes – p16(Ink4a) and Arf – that sensitize lymphoid progenitor cells to the effect ...
Nov 15, 2008 |
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Scientists find cell pathway driving a deadly sub-type of breast cancer
An intra cellular pathway not previously linked to breast cancer is driving a sub-type of the disease that is highly lethal and disproportionately over-represented in African American women.
Nov 15, 2008 |
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