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Texas Tech Using Remote Sensing Technology to Improve Peanut Crops

Biology / Ecology

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers are using remote sensing to estimate biophysical characteristics including ground cover and yield.


Social scientists build case for 'survival of the kindest'

Social scientists build case for 'survival of the kindest'

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created 10 hours ago | popularity 4.2 / 5 (17) | comments 15

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, are challenging long-held beliefs that human beings are wired to be selfish. In a wide range of studies, social scientists are amassing ...


Rapid cardiac biomarker testing system developed by Singapore scientists

Medicine & Health / Research

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Scientists at Singapore's Institute of Microelectronics (IME) have developed a rapid and sensitive integrated system to test simultaneously for specific cardiac biomarkers in finger prick amount of blood.


Validity of cost-effectiveness models based on randomized clinical trials

Medicine & Health / Research

created 20 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Cost-effectiveness studies are widely used to guide prescribing policy in many countries, as part of health technology assessment programmes. However, a new study published this week in PLoS Medicine by Tjeerd-Pieter van St ...


Elusive protein points to mechanism behind hearing loss

Elusive protein points to mechanism behind hearing loss

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created 21 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A serendipitous discovery of deaf zebra fish larvae has helped narrow down the function of an elusive protein necessary for hearing and balance. The work, led by Rockefeller University’s A. ...


Tahoe faces new development battle: green vs. green

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

As snow begins to blanket Lake Tahoe, the region finds itself facing a new kind of development battle: green vs. green.


Lasers used to make first boron-nitride nanotube yarn

Lasers used to make first boron-nitride nanotube yarn (w/ Video)

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have used lasers to create the first practical macroscopic yarns from boron nitride fibers, opening the door for an array of applications, from radiation-shielded spacecraft to ...


Pickin' Up Good Vibrations to Produce Green Electricity

Pickin' Up Good Vibrations to Produce Green Electricity

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (11) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Vibrations from the environments we live and work in could be much more widely harnessed as a clean source of electricity, due to cutting-edge UK research.


Herschel takes a peek at the ingredients of the galaxies

Herschel takes a peek at the ingredients of the galaxies

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The European Space Agency has today released spectacular new observations from the Herschel Space Observatory, including the UK-led SPIRE instrument. Spectrometers on board all three Hershel ...


Fermi Telescope Peers Deep into Microquasar

Fermi Telescope Peers Deep into Microquasar (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (17) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has made the first unambiguous detection of high-energy gamma-rays from an enigmatic binary system known as Cygnus X-3. The system pairs a hot, massive ...


Software takes a hard look at traffic fatalities

Technology / Software

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Bergen County Police and a Hackensack, N.J., drug treatment center are among a growing number of agencies using a software program to identify dangerous intersections, spot teen driving trends and reduce accident fatalities.


Cassini Captures Ghostly Dance of Saturn's Northern Lights

Cassini Captures Ghostly Dance of Saturn's Northern Lights (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the first video showing the auroras above the northern latitudes of Saturn, Cassini has spotted the tallest known "northern lights" in the solar system, flickering in shape and brightness ...


More than 18 million cubic metres of sand are set to be poured onto the new coastal band of dunes until 2011

Dutch build more dunes against rising seas

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

On the beach at Monster, bulldozers painstakingly turn sand dredged from the bottom of the North Sea bed into dunes in an ambitious effort to safeguard the Netherlands from flooding.


Military experiment seeks to predict PTSD (AP)

Military experiment seeks to predict PTSD

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Two days before shipping off to war, Marine Pfc. Jesse Sheets sat inside a trailer in the Mojave Desert, his gaze fixed on a computer that flashed a rhythmic pulse of contrasting images.


IBM scientists create rapid disease diagnostic chip (w/ Video)

IBM scientists create rapid disease diagnostic chip (w/ Video)

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 0

IBM scientists have created a one-step point-of-care-diagnostic test, based on an innovative silicon chip, that requires less sample volume, is significantly faster, portable, easy to use, and can test for ...