Can this experiment identify dark matter?
Oct 22, 2007 |
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"The key question we want to tackle," Gianfranco Bertone tells PhysOrg.com, "is what dark matter is."
Plants live, die according to their size
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Oct 22, 2007 |
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Plants self-regulate their populations to maintain stability and optimize their lives, with the lengths of their lives directly related to their mass, a recent study has found. Further, a single scaling power ...
Giant garbage patch floating in Pacific
Oct 22, 2007 |
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An enormous island of trash twice the size of Texas is floating in the Pacific Ocean somewhere between San Francisco and Hawaii.
Caltech Electronic Nose Innovation
Oct 22, 2007 |
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Research Scientists at Caltech Developing Electronic Nose. The Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Division at Caltech are combining efforts with NASA and other engineers at Caltech to test ranges of applications.
Nanowire Manipulation Could Lead to Hand-Held Supercomputers
Oct 22, 2007 |
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Researchers have been working on nanowires and microchips so tiny that they could be used to build supercomputers that could fit in the palm of your hand. Hopefully, the nanowires will eventually lead to small, ...
Rise in atmospheric CO2 accelerates as economy grows, natural carbon sinks weaken
Oct 22, 2007 |
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Human activities are releasing carbon dioxide faster than ever, while the natural processes that normally slow its build up in the atmosphere appear to be weakening. These conclusions are drawn in a new study in the early ...
Rodenstock Innovation in Athletic Sunglasses
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 22, 2007 |
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The prototype athletic sunglasses Informance can display the heart rate, and monitor performance. The German lens maker Rodenstock has made every effort to make the sunglasses light weight and unobtrusive. ...
MIT works toward novel therapeutic device
Oct 22, 2007 |
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MIT and University of Rochester researchers report important advances toward a therapeutic device that has the potential to capture cells as they flow through the blood stream and treat them. Among other applications, ...
Mayo Clinic tests novel vaccine for aggressive brain tumors
Medicine & Health / Medications
Oct 22, 2007 |
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A vaccine that has significantly increased life expectancy in early tests of patients with glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) − the most common, most aggressive form of brain cancer in adults − is now being offered ...
Immune cells can simultaneously stimulate and inhibit killer cell activity
Oct 22, 2007 |
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Dendritic cells, which are responsible for teaching other immune cells to attack infected or mutated cells, face a dangerous predicament. To demonstrate that an enemy has invaded, they must change to look ...
Scientists uncover how hormones achieve their effects
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Oct 22, 2007 |
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New insights into the cellular signal chain through which pheromones stimulate mating in yeast have been gained by scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL).
Excess female to male births in Canada linked to chronic dioxin exposure
Oct 22, 2007 |
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Almost 90 Canadian communities have experienced a shift in the normal 51:49 ratio of male to female births, so that more girls than boys are being born, according to two studies in the Oct. 1 issue of ACS' Environmental Sc ...
Common virus may help doctors treat deadly brain tumors
Oct 22, 2007 |
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A common human virus may prove useful in attacking the deadliest form of brain tumors, according to a study by researchers at Duke’s Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center. The researchers said the finding is an important ...
Broccoli sprout-derived extract protects against ultraviolet radiation
Oct 22, 2007 |
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A team of Johns Hopkins scientists reports in this week’s issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that humans can be protected against the damaging effects of ultraviolet (UV) radiation — the most abunda ...
Professor says harmful byproducts of fossil fuels could be higher in urban areas
Oct 22, 2007 |
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Nitrogen oxides, the noxious byproduct of burning fossil fuels that can return to Earth in rain and snow as harmful nitrate, could taint urban water supplies and roadside waterways more than scientists and regulators realize, ...
