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Great white's mighty bite revealed

Biology /

created Aug 04, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 7

The bite force of a great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) is the highest known for any living species, according to new research to be published in the Journal of Zoology. This is the first time that scientists have e ...





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Parasite evades death by promoting host cell survival

Parasite evades death by promoting host cell survival

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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Researchers have discovered how the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, which causes Chagas' disease, prolongs its survival in infected cells. A protein on the parasite activates the enzyme Akt, which blocks cell ...


Research is shattering traditioinal notions of laser limits

Research is shattering traditioinal notions of laser limits

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Air Force Office of Scientific Research and National Science Foundation-funded professor, Dr. Xiang Zhang has demonstrated at the University of California, Berkeley the world's smallest semiconductor laser, ...


Not all parents place their babies 'back to sleep,' research finds

Medicine & Health / Health

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

Placing infants on their backs for sleep can help reduce the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). But a study by Yale School of Medicine researchers and their colleagues shows that while the practice helped reduce ...


Hunt for Higgs boson: Mass of top quark narrows search

Hunt for Higgs boson: Mass of top quark narrows search

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (23) | comments 27

(PhysOrg.com) -- New high-energy particle research by a team working with data from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory further heightens the uncertainty about the exact nature of a key theoretical component ...


Metamaterials could reduce friction in nanomachines

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nanoscale machines expected to have wide application in industry, energy, medicine and other fields may someday operate far more efficiently thanks to important theoretical discoveries concerning the manipulation ...


NRL's MISSE7 launched aboard STS-129

NRL's MISSE7 launched aboard STS-129

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The Materials on the International Space Station Experiment (MISSE) 7, designed and built by the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), launched aboard STS-129 on November, 16, for transport to the International ...


EPA says greenhouse gases endanger human health (AP)

EPA says greenhouse gases endanger human health

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (8) | comments 24

(AP) -- The Environmental Protection Agency took a major step Monday toward regulating greenhouses gases, concluding that climate changing pollution threatens the public health and the environment.


Comcast: No plans to sell fourth-place NBC network

Technology / Business

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

(AP) -- Comcast executives say they have no plans to sell NBC Universal's broadcast TV business when they take control of the company.


South Asian oral history archive goes online

South Asian oral history archive goes online

Other Sciences / Other

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- A unique collection of hundreds of interviews with people who witnessed Indian independence and the final days of the British Raj is being put online.


Rethinking artificial intelligence

Rethinking artificial intelligence: Researchers hope to produce 'co-processors' for the human mind

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (16) | comments 8

The field of artificial-intelligence research (AI), founded more than 50 years ago, seems to many researchers to have spent much of that time wandering in the wilderness, swapping hugely ambitious goals for ...



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