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Mumps outbreak spreading across Canada
May 07, 2007 |
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An outbreak of the mumps that began in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia has spreaf across the nation, infecting at least 203 people.
Nova Scotia reacts to mumps outbreak
May 17, 2007 |
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Health care workers in Nova Scotia received immunizations from mumps this week as the Canadian province took steps to limit an outbreak of the disease.
Astronomers catch binary star explosion inside nebula
Nov 19, 2008 |
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The explosion of a binary star inside a planetary nebula has been captured by a team led by UCL (University College London) researchers – an event that has not been witnessed for more than 100 years. The study, published ...
Officials break ground for the world's most advanced neutrino experiment
May 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Construction begins this month on a cutting-edge physics laboratory in northern Minnesota, supported by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Congressman James Oberstar of Minnesota ...
Asus Unveils New Mini PC with Full HD Support
Jun 03, 2008 |
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Catering to users who require a compact and powerful home entertainment center, ASUS has unveiled the new ASUS Mini PC Nova Lite PX24. At only 2L in size, this world's smallest mini PC is equipped with a built-in ...
Semiconductor companies spar over patent
Apr 06, 2006 |
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Semiconductor technology firm Nanometrics Inc. this week sued competitor Nova Measuring Instruments Ltd. in a California court for patent infringement.
NASA sees some strong thunderstorms in Bill's center as he drenches eastern Canada
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 24, 2009 |
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Bill is still holding onto hurricane status near Nova Scotia, and will be bringing a lot of rain and heavy surf to Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland. Today, Sunday, August 23, NASA infrared ...
Linked Hawaiian Telescopes Catch a Nova Surprise
Jan 28, 2008 |
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First results from a new NASA-funded scientific instrument at the W. M. Keck Observatory at Mauna Kea, Hawaii, are helping scientists overturn long-standing assumptions about powerful explosions called novae ...
Ticking stellar time bomb identified (w/ Video)
Nov 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- "One of the major problems in modern astrophysics is the fact that we still do not know exactly what kinds of stellar system explode as a Type Ia supernova," says Patrick Woudt, from the University ...
Watching a 'New Star' Make the Universe Dusty
Jul 24, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Using ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer, and its remarkable acuity, astronomers were able for the first time to witness the appearance of a shell of dusty gas around a star that had just erupted, ...
Scientists discover master regulator of motor neuron firing
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When the Human Genome Project was complete, DNA bowed out of the limelight and gave way to RNA as a major player in genetic regulation. Now, findings at Rockefeller University mirror this ...
X-rays provide a new way to investigate exploding stars
May 09, 2007 |
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ESA’s X-ray observatory XMM-Newton has revealed a new class of exploding stars – where the X-ray emission ‘lives fast and dies young’. The identification of this particular class of explosions gives astronomers ...
Portuguese team makes first paper based transistor
Jul 22, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Elvira Fortunato and colleagues from the Centro de Investigação de Materiais (Cenimat/I3N), at Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, made the first Field Effect ...
FEI Introduces Nova NanoSEM
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Mar 04, 2005 |
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New System is the World's First SEM for Ultra-High Resolution Characterization of Non-Conductive or Contaminating Samples FEI Company released the newest member of its Nova(TM) family of SEM and DualBeam(TM) systems, the Nova Nan ...
Double-star systems cycle between big and small blasts
Mar 07, 2007 |
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Certain double, or binary, star systems erupt in full-blown explosions and then flare up with smaller bursts, according to new information gathered by NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) and analyzed by ...
