Scientists take the sharpest image ever made with light
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists from the Technische Universität Dresden (Germany) and the ESRF in Grenoble (France) has produced the image of an object at the highest resolution ever achieved with X-ray ...
Stop & Shop Supermarket Chain Goes Hi-Tech
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Aug 29, 2008 |
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Your next trip to Stop & Shop may be little more than just placing items into your wagon and paying for them at the cashier's checkout counter.
Flu shot does not reduce risk of death
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The widely-held perception that the influenza vaccination reduces overall mortality risk in the elderly does not withstand careful scrutiny, according to researchers in Alberta. The vaccine does confer protection against ...
Why Strawberry Jam is More Regulated than Cigarettes
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(PhysOrg.com) -- While jams and other consumer products are strictly regulated and are required to pass stringent tests before they can be sold, tobacco has no restrictions and manufacturers can, and do, add anything they ...
Engineers create bone that blends into tendons
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Engineers at Georgia Tech have used skin cells to create artificial bones that mimic the ability of natural bone to blend into other tissues such as tendons or ligaments. The artificial bones display a gradual ...
Biophysical method may help to recover hearing
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Scientists based in Switzerland and South Africa have created a biophysical methodology that may help to overcome hearing deficits, and potentially remedy even substantial hearing loss. The authors propose a method of retuning ...
Single photon detectors for telecommunications wavelengths
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Practically speaking, single photon detection has not been something pursued very heavily at the wavelengths used for telecommunication signals. Part of the problem is that performance of single photon detectors are rather ...
Scientists create DNA tubes with programmable sizes for nanoscale manufacturing
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Aug 29, 2008 |
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Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a simple process for mass producing molecular tubes of identical--and precisely programmable--circumferences. The technological feat may allow ...
Magmatically triggered slow earthquake discovered at Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 29, 2008 |
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From June 17-19th 2007, Kilauea experienced a new dike intrusion, where magma rapidly moved from a storage reservoir beneath the summit into the east rift zone and extended the rift zone by as much as 1 meter.
Scientists uncover new field of research that could help police in crime scene forensics
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A team of investigators led by scientists at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) have found a way to identify possible suspects at crime scenes using only a small amount of DNA, even if it is mixed with hundreds ...
Breakthrough could help combat superbugs
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have worked out a key mechanism that protects bacteria against stress in a major discovery that could lead to new ways of killing superbugs like C. difficile and MRSA.
No more big stink: scent lures mosquitoes, but humans can't smell it
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Mosquito traps that reek like latrines may be no more. A University of California, Davis research team led by chemical ecologist Walter Leal has discovered a low-cost, easy-to-prepare attractant that lures ...
Chemist Discovers the Elusive Chemical Middleman That Removes Acid Rain
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have discovered the middleman in the complex chemical reaction that is essential to the atmosphere's ability to break down pollutants, especially the compounds that cause acid rain. The study ...
Study shows more genes are controlled by biological clocks
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The tick-tock of your biological clock may have just gotten a little louder. Researchers at the University of Georgia report that the number of genes under control of in living things than suspected only a few years ago. ...
Integral locates origin of high-energy emission from Crab Nebula
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Thanks to data from ESA's Integral gamma-ray observatory, scientists have been able to locate where particles in the vicinity of the rotating neutron-star in the Crab Nebula are accelerated ...
