Exciting discovery could 'stop cancer from killing people'
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Metastasis is the ability of cancer cells to spread from a primary site, to form tumours at distant sites. It is a complex process in which cell motility and invasion play a fundamental role. Essential to our understanding ...
Solar flare surprise
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Solar flares are the most powerful explosions in the solar system. Packing a punch equal to a hundred million hydrogen bombs, they obliterate everything in their immediate vicinity. Not a ...
Spinning Water Droplets Could Provide Insights into Black Holes, Atomic Nuclei
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By magnetically levitating water droplets, and using a “liquid electric motor” technique to spin them, researchers can investigate how the droplets change shape. Rather than being just a curious experiment, ...
Researchers discover new mechanism for attentional control in the human brain
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A study by UC Davis researchers appearing in the journal Science reports the discovery of a new mechanism of attention in the human brain. Previous studies in animals implicated changes in the state of a portion of the br ...
Ancient Magma 'Superpiles' May Have Shaped The Continents
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 15, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Two giant plumes of hot rock deep within the earth are linked to the plate motions that shape the continents, researchers have found.
Moving in for the winter toxic brown recluse spiders pose danger
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As the cold weather creeps in, so do brown recluse spiders. True to their name, the brown recluse is a shy, reclusive spider looking for a warm home. Drawn to clutter, closets and complex storage environments, ...
Tiny delivery system with a big impact on cancer cells
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Dec 15, 2008 |
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Researchers in Pennsylvania are reporting for the first time that nanoparticles 1/5,000 the diameter of a human hair encapsulating an experimental anticancer agent, kill human melanoma and drug-resistant breast ...
Single virus used to convert adult cells to embryonic stem cell-like cells
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Whitehead Institute researchers have greatly simplified the creation of so-called induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, cutting the number of viruses used in the reprogramming process from four to one. Scientists hope that ...
A View From the Other Side: Dubai Plans to Cool Sizzling Sandy Beach
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Dubai's out this world's Palazzo Versace located in the Culture Village has hired Hyder Consulting to use their innovative engineering talents to cool off the hotel/condominium resort's sizzling ...
God or science? A belief in one weakens positive feelings for the other
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
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A person's unconscious attitudes toward science and God may be fundamentally opposed, researchers report, depending on how religion and science are used to answer "ultimate" questions such as how the universe ...
Ocean acidification from CO2 emissions will cause physiological impairment to jumbo squid
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The elevated carbon dioxide levels expected to be found in the world's oceans by 2100 will likely lead to physiological impairments of jumbo (or Humboldt) squid, according to research by two ...
Measuring conductance of carbon nanotubes, one by one
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A single batch of carbon nanotubes -- molecular carbon cylinders that may one day revolutionize electronics engineering -- often includes more than 100 types of tubes, each with different ...
Answers to huge wind-farm problems are blowin' in the wind
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(PhysOrg.com) -- While harnessing more energy from the wind could help satisfy growing demands for electricity and reduce emissions of global-warming gases, turbulence from proposed wind farms could adversely ...
As Ice Melts, Antarctic Bedrock Is on the Move
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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As ice melts away from Antarctica, parts of the continental bedrock are rising in response -- and other parts are sinking, scientists have discovered.
Breast cancer genome shows evolution, instability of cancer
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A newly published genome sequence of a breast cancer cell line reveals a heavily rearranged genetic blueprint involving breaks and fusions of genes and a broken DNA repair machinery, said researchers at Baylor College of ...
