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Young stars at home in ancient cluster

(PhysOrg.com) -- Looking like a hoard of gems fit for an emperor's collection, this deep sky object called NGC 6752 is in fact far more worthy of admiration. It is a globular cluster, and at over 10 billion ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 4

UT biosolar breakthrough promises cheap, easy green electricity

Barry D. Bruce, professor of biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology, at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is turning the term "power plant" on its head. The biochemist and a team of researchers have developed ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Filmmaker sounds alarm over ocean of plastic

On Midway atoll in the North Pacific, dozens of young albatross lie dead on the sand, their stomachs filled with cigarette lighters, toy soldiers and other small plastic objects their parents have mistaken ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers model potential of toxic algae photoreceptors

Blue-green algae is causing havoc in Midwestern lakes saturated with agricultural run-off, but researchers in a northwest Ohio lab are using supercomputers to study a closely related strain of the toxic cyanobacteria ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Swiss chemists emulate cheese rind to create self-cleaning surface material

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cheese lovers know that the milky white outer coating of Camembert cheese not only serves to offer a tart offset to the pungent inner cheese, but also protects it until ready to be eaten, ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Success in synthesis of new high performance functional material mesoporous prussian blue

The National Institute for Materials Science in Japan succeeded in fabricating mesoporous Prussian blue, in which an extremely large number of nanosized pores (mesoporous) are formed in the crystal structure of the material.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Trouble in paradise: Ocean acidification this way comes

Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble.---Shakespeare, Macbeth

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 22 | with audio podcast

South polar region of Titan, Saturn's largest moon

(PhysOrg.com) -- This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward the south polar region of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, and shows a depression within the moon's orange and blue haze layers near the ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 29, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Shared flavor compounds show up on US menus, rare in Asian cuisines

North Americans and Western Europeans love a good mix of alpha-terpineol, 4-methylpentanoic acid and ethyl propionate for dinner, flavor compounds shared in popular ingredients like tomatoes, parmesan cheese ...

Chemistry / Other

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Experiments explain why almost all multicellular organisms begin life as a single cell

Any multicellular animal, from a blue whale to a human being, poses a special difficulty for the theory of evolution. Most of the cells in its body will die without reproducing, and only a privileged few will ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Blue light irradiation promotes growth, increases antioxidants in lettuce seedlings

The quality of agricultural seedlings is important to crop growth and yield after transplantation. Good quality seedlings exhibit characteristics such as thick stems, thick leaves, dark green leaves, and large white roots. ...

Biology / Other

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center tests novel drug that makes brain tumors glow hot pink

Just 24 hours after Lisa Rek sang at her niece's wedding, her husband Brad was driving her to a local hospital.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Catch limits debated for 'most important fish in sea'

A big fight is brewing over a little fish - a fish that no one wants to eat but that many regard as the most important in the sea.

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 5

Blooming ocean fronts

Each spring, huge patches of phytoplankton bloom in the oceans, turning cold, blue waters into teeming green pools of microbial life. This ocean “greening,” which can be seen from space, mirrors ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Scientists collaborate to improve energy transmission for more efficient grids

Scientists at IBM and ABB, the world's largest builder of electricity grids, are using supercomputers to study and potentially develop a new type of high-voltage insulator that will improve the efficiency ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0