Why do the majority of people never get cancer?
Jan 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Every year, millions of people are diagnosed with cancer - a remarkably high number. But what about the flipside of those statistics? That is, two out of three people never get cancer, and ...
Scientists Find New Way to Produce Hydrogen
Jan 22, 2009 |
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Scientists at Penn State University and the Virginia Commonwealth University have discovered a way to produce hydrogen by exposing selected clusters of aluminum atoms to water. The findings are important ...
Long-Distance Teleportation Between Two Atoms: First between atoms 1 meter apart
Jan 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, scientists have successfully teleported information between two separate atoms in unconnected enclosures a meter apart - a significant milestone in the global quest for ...
Secrets Of Stradivarius' unique violin sound revealed, prof says
Jan 22, 2009 |
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For centuries, violin makers have tried and failed to reproduce the pristine sound of Stradivarius and Guarneri violins, but after 33 years of work put into the project, a Texas A&M University professor is ...
Verdict: Supermassive black holes not guilty of shutting down star formation
Jan 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Yale University astronomers has discovered that galaxies stop forming stars long before their central supermassive black holes reach their most powerful stage, meaning the black ...
Cyclogyro Flying Robot Improves its Angles of Attack
Jan 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the past few decades, researchers have been investigating a variety of flying machines. Most studies have focused on improving the flying performance of standard flying mechanisms, rather ...
Quantum technologies move a step closer with the demonstration of an 'entanglement' filter
Jan 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of physicists and engineers has demonstrated an optical device that filters two particles of light (or photons) based on the correlations between their polarisation that are only allowed in the seemingly ...
Scientists test blast-resistant concrete
Jan 22, 2009 |
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Engineers at the University of Liverpool have tested a new form of concrete designed to reduce the impact of bomb blasts in public areas.
Tree deaths have doubled across the western US
Jan 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study led by the U.S. Geological Survey and involving the University of Colorado at Boulder indicates tree deaths in the West's old-growth forests have more than doubled in recent decades, ...
Pacific people spread from Taiwan
Jan 22, 2009 |
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New research into language evolution suggests most Pacific populations originated in Taiwan around 5,200 years ago.
Implants mimic infection to rally immune system against tumors
Jan 22, 2009 |
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Bioengineers at Harvard University have shown that small plastic disks impregnated with tumor-specific antigens and implanted under the skin can reprogram the mammalian immune system to attack tumors.
'Sunshine vitamin' link to cognitive problems in older people
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 22, 2009 |
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Researchers from the Peninsula Medical School, the University of Cambridge and the University of Michigan, have for the first time identified a relationship between Vitamin D, the "sunshine vitamin", and cognitive impairment ...
Researchers heat up gold to surprising effect: It gets harder not softer
Jan 22, 2009 |
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Common sense tells us that when you heat something up it gets softer, but a team of researchers, led by University of Toronto chemistry and physics professor R.J. Dwayne Miller, has demonstrated the exact ...
Scientists unlock possible aging secret in genetically altered fruit fly
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Jan 22, 2009 |
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Brown University researchers have identified a cellular mechanism that could someday help fight the aging process.
Tiny lasers get a notch up
Jan 22, 2009 |
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Tiny disk-shaped lasers as small as a speck of dust could one day beam information through optical computers. Unfortunately, a perfect disk will spray light out, not as a beam, but in all directions. New theoretical results, ...
