Researchers make important advancement in unraveling mysteries of fusion energy
Oct 25, 2006 |
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Unraveling one of most grandiose and heady problems in physics -- the creation of controlled fusion energy -- is still decades away. But thanks to research done recently on a smaller, less grandiose scale at the Nevada Terawatt ...
Team develops DNA switch to interface living organisms with computers
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 25, 2006 |
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Researchers at the University of Portsmouth, UK, have developed an electronic switch based on DNA - a world-first bio-nanotechnology breakthrough that provides the foundation for the interface between living organisms and ...
Pint-sized car engine promises high efficiency
Oct 25, 2006 |
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MIT researchers are developing a half-sized gasoline engine that performs like its full-sized cousin but offers fuel efficiency approaching that of today's hybrid engine system--at a far lower cost. The key? ...
One-of-a-kind magnet open for science
Oct 25, 2006 |
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The world's most powerful pulsed, nondestructive magnet is now ready to explore the frontiers of high magnetic field science - after 10 years of research, major instrument development, and construction.
Astronomers weigh 200-million-year-old baby galaxies
Oct 25, 2006 |
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Astronomers have taken amazing pictures of two of the most distant galaxies ever seen. The ultradeep images, taken at infrared wavelengths, confirm for the first time that these celestial cherubs are real. ...
Scientists Find Lamprey a 'Living Fossil' -- 360 Million-year-old Fish Hasn't Evolved Much
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 25, 2006 |
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Scientists from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and the University of Chicago have uncovered a remarkably well-preserved fossil lamprey from the Devonian period that reveals today’s lampreys ...
Researchers decipher the shape of the sodium/potassium ion pump
Oct 25, 2006 |
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Proteins studding the surface of cell membranes are vital to the cell, transmitting signals and maintaining equilibrium by moving charged molecules — ions — from one side to the other. Some of these proteins ...
Appalachian Mountains, carbon dioxide caused long-ago global cooling
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 25, 2006 |
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The rise of the Appalachian Mountains may have caused a major ice age approximately 450 million years ago, an Ohio State University study has found.
Oldest Complex Organic Molecules Found in Ancient Fossils
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 25, 2006 |
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Ohio State University geologists have isolated complex organic molecules from 350-million-year-old fossil sea creatures -- the oldest such molecules yet found. The molecules may have functioned as pigments, ...
Earthquake swarms not just clustered around volcanoes, geothermal regions
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 25, 2006 |
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An earthquake swarm – a steady drumbeat of moderate, related seismic events – over hours or days, often can be observed near a volcano such as Mount St. Helens in Washington state or in a geothermal region such as Yellowstone ...
Facts About Prostate Cancer and Its Treatment
Oct 25, 2006 |
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In 2006, about 235,000 Americans will be diagnosed with prostate cancer, making it the most common cancer among males. If caught early, prostate cancer is very treatable and usually curable.
Immune cell communication key to hunting viruses,
Oct 25, 2006 |
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Immunologists at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia have used nanotechnology to create a novel "biosensor" to solve in part a perplexing problem in immunology: how immune system cells ...
NASA Looks at Sea Level Rise, Hurricane Risks to New York City
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 25, 2006 |
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New York City has been an area of concern during hurricane season for many years because of the large population and logistics. More than 8 million people live in the city, and it has hundreds of miles of coastline ...
Study: Water helps weight loss
Oct 25, 2006 |
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Studies presented at a meeting of the Obesity Society in Boston have suggested that water helps weight loss and low-fat foods may hinder it.
Scientists identify 36 genes, 100 neuropeptides in honey bee brains
Biology /
Oct 25, 2006 |
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From humans to honey bees, neuropeptides control brain activity and, hence, our behaviors. Understanding the roles these peptides play in the life of a honey bee will assist researchers in understanding the roles they play ...
