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Researchers set alarm for incoming space storms

Researchers set alarm for incoming space storms

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 27, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton has broken new ground in outer space by pinpointing the impact epicentre of an Earthbound space storm as it crashes into the ...


Adding a genetic supertool: Genome Analyzer fuels research dreams and tomorrow's cures

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

To identify the hemophilia mutation that affected Queen Victoria and her European relatives, scientific detectives used a cutting-edge "deep sequencing tool." Able to trace rare genetic disease mutations, the tool can turn ...


'Cross fire' from the brain makes patients tremble

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 11, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

A typical symptom of Parkinson's disease is tremor in patients. A group of scientists, including Professor Peter Tass from Forschungszentrum Jülich have succeeded in demonstrating the mechanisms which cause the so-called ...


LCROSS mission

Astronomers Will Train Big MMT Telescope on Moon During 2009 Impact

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers will use the powerful University of Arizona/Smithsonian MMT Observatory on Mount Hopkins, Ariz., to search for lunar water ice when NASA fires a 2-ton rocket into a polar crater ...


Scientists Develop New Method to Find Alien Oceans, Earth-like Planets (w/Videos)

Scientists Develop New Method to Find Alien Oceans, Earth-like Planets (w/Videos)

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 26, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Since the early 1990s astronomers have discovered more than 300 planets orbiting stars other than our sun, nearly all of them gas giants like Jupiter. Powerful space telescopes, such as the ...


Saving the creatures of the deep: A federal government plan aims to protect Florida's reefs before a precious ecosystem

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 5

A few miles from the southeast Florida coast, at a depth of crushing pressure and frigid temperatures, lies an eerie world of snowy coral, undiscovered forms of life and rock towers thrusting through ink-dark water.


BioModule Water Bears

Water Bears to Travel to Martian Moon, Test Theory of Transpermia

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (14) | comments 22 weblog

(PhysOrg.com) -- Tiny microscopic creatures commonly known as water bears (also called Tardigrades), along with a few other life forms, will be sent to the Martian moon Phobos to test whether organisms can ...


Pandemic flu can infect cells deep in the lungs, says new research

Pandemic flu can infect cells deep in the lungs, says new research

Biology / Biotechnology

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Pandemic swine flu can infect cells deeper in the lungs than seasonal flu can, according to a new study published today in Nature Biotechnology. The researchers, from Imperial College London ...


Martian Polar Layer Erosion Looks Striking

Martian Polar Layer Erosion Looks Striking

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 16, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (13) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- An odd, solitary hill rising part-way down an eroding slope in Mars' north polar layered terrain may be the remnant of a buried impact crater, suggests a University of Arizona planetary scientist ...


Under certain conditions, carbon dioxide self-seals cracks

Supercritical CO2 boosts super optimism in sequestering greenhouse gas

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 17, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (25) | comments 14

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists appear to have the rock-solid evidence that suggests carbon dioxide can be safely and permanently sequestered in deep, underground basalt rock formations, without risk of it eventually ...


Dinosaur-Killer was Soft on Algae

Dinosaur-Killer was Soft on Algae

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The asteroid impact that many researchers claim was the cause of the dinosaur die-off was bad news for marine life at the time as well. But new research shows that microalgae - one of the primary producers ...


Pregnancy situations have impact on brain development in pre-term infants

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 27, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Brain development in infants who are born very prematurely is still incomplete. Factors that cause premature birth may have an impact on the development of the premature infant's brain both during pregnancy and later on after ...


'Ocean glider' home after two-month voyage

'Ocean glider' home after two-month voyage

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 16, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scientists are celebrating the first successful deployment and retrieval in Australia of a remotely controlled, deep ocean-going robotic submarine destined to play a central role in measuring changes in two ...


New robot travels across the seafloor to monitor the impact of climate change on deep-sea ecosystems

New robot travels across the seafloor to monitor the impact of climate change on deep-sea ecosystems

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Like the robotic rovers Spirit and Opportunity, which wheeled tirelessly across the dusty surface of Mars, a new robot spent most of July traveling across the muddy ocean bottom, about 40 ...


World interest in Australian fishery impact test

World interest in Australian fishery impact test

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

An Australian method for assessing the environmental impact of marine fisheries has caught the eye of fishery management agencies worldwide.