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Lava pours out of Montserrat

Deep magma matters in volcanic eruption cycle

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 09, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Although the Soufriere Hills volcano on Montserrat exhibits cycles of eruption and quiet, an international team of researchers found that magma is continuously supplied from deep in the crust but that a valve ...


Experts think toxic algae harming endangered fish

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Scientists say they think toxins from a blue-green algae plaguing lakes and rivers around the West are harming an endangered fish in the Klamath Basin, adding another obstacle to restoring species that have forced ...


Care-seeking behavior associated with 'upper-GI symptoms'

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Patients with upper gastrointestinal (GI) complaints visit their general practitioner (GP) more often than patients with other conditions. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Family Practice found that people ...


Alchemy in Tanzania? Gas Becomes Solid at Surface of Oldoinyo Lengai Volcano

Alchemy in Tanzania? Gas Becomes Solid at Surface of Oldoinyo Lengai Volcano

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 06, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Science has unearthed the secret to what might have been alchemy at Oldoinyo Lengai volcano in Tanzania.


Satellite data explains vanishing India groundwater

Satellite data explains vanishing India groundwater

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 12, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using satellite data, UC Irvine and NASA hydrologists have found that groundwater beneath northern India has been receding by as much as 1 foot per year over the past decade - and they believe ...


Why is the Earth's mantle conductive?

Why is the Earth's mantle conductive?

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 04, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (24) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from INSU-CNRS (France), working with chemists at a CNRS research unit, have explained that the high conductivity of the Earth's upper mantle is due to molten carbonates. They ...


China is planning to build more dams and reservoirs on the troubled Yangtze river

China says planning more dams on troubled Yangtze

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

China will build at least 20 more reservoirs or hydroelectric projects in the Yangtze river system by 2020, the government said Tuesday, despite growing concerns over dam construction there.


New research lights up chronic bacterial infection inside bone

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 22, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new report demonstrates how a sensitive imaging technique gives scientists the upper hand in seeking out bacteria in chronic infections.


SMOS and Proba-2 installed in launch tower

SMOS and Proba-2 satellites installed in launch tower

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In readiness for launch on 2 November, ESA’s SMOS and Proba-2 satellites - encapsulated in the launcher fairing - have been transported from the cleanroom and installed in the launch tower ...


The Eiffel Tower (centre) and the Montparnasse Tower (left) in Paris

'Cosmic opera' set for Paris tower

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The rooftop of a Paris skyscraper is to be transformed into a cosmic-ray laboratory in an unusual week-long experiment due to start on Saturday.


Philips’ intelligent pill targets drug development and treatment for digestive tract diseases

Philips’ intelligent pill targets drug development and treatment for digestive tract diseases

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 11, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

At this week's opening of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) Annual Meeting and Exposition (Atlanta, USA, November 16-20, 2008) Philips Research will announce its new intelligent ...


Obese children at significantly greater risk for post-adenotonsillectomy complications

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Obesity in children significantly increases the risk of major and minor respiratory complications following surgery to correct sleep disordered breathing (SDB), according to new research presented at the 2009 American Academy ...


Cosmetic eyelid surgery can boost quality of life for patients

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 04, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Cosmetic surgery that repairs droopy eyelids, also known as blepharoplasty, has an overall positive impact on patients' quality of life (QOL).


Magnetic particles act as ink in new printer

Magnetic particles act as ink in new printer

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 16, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (45) | comments 0

By using a laser beam to focus and push particles against a substrate, scientist Lars Helseth of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore has designed and built a unique type of colloidal printer. Taking ...


Lava flows in Daedalia Planum

Lava flows in Daedalia Planum

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Mars Express imaged Daedalia Planum, a sparsely cratered, untextured plain on the Red Planet featuring solidified lava flows of varying ages.