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Describing soils: Calibration tool for teaching soil rupture resistance

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new calibration tool was recently developed to help students and soil scientists calibrate their thumb and forefinger for the correct amount of pressure.





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Influenza Polymerase Subunit

New findings reveal how influenza virus hijacks human cells

Biology /

created Feb 04, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Influenza is and remains a disease to reckon with. Seasonal epidemics around the world kill several hundred thousand people every year. In the light of looming pandemics if bird flu strains develop the ability ...


A cell's 'cap' of bundled fibers could yield clues to disease

A cell's 'cap' of bundled fibers could yield clues to disease (w/ Video)

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

It turns out that wearing a cap is good for you, at least if you are a mammal cell.


Court rejects cap on cable market share -- again

Technology / Telecom

created Aug 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 4

(AP) -- An appeals court overturned a rule that said a cable TV company could not serve more than 30 percent of the nation's subscribers. The verdict Friday was a victory for the largest cable company, Comcast Corp., which ...


On their trip, Pen Hadow (R) and Ann Daniels found the average thickness of the ice floes was 1.8 metres

Arctic ice cap 'to disappear in future summers'

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (32) | comments 21

The Arctic ice cap will disappear completely in summer months within 20 to 30 years, a polar research team said as they presented findings from an expedition led by adventurer Pen Hadow.


HiRISE Sees Signs of an Unearthly Spring on Mars

HiRISE Sees Signs of an Unearthly Spring on Mars

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New images from the HiRISE experiment detail patterns of dust carried by gas from beneath the seasonal ice cap.


Using your mood to operate a computer game

Using your mood to operate a computer game

Technology / Other

created May 28, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Brain Computer Interfaces measure electrical signals from the brain and convert them into data that can be used by a computer. You can move a cursor on your screen, for example, simply by ...


Experts say cap and trade not enough

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 13, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (39) | comments 8

A team of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University report in a new policy brief that cap and trade climate policies alone will not be sufficient to put the nation on track to achieve a 50 to 80 percent reduction in greenhouse ...


Podcast: Tiny sea creature and a new medical adhesive

Podcast: Tiny sea creature and a new medical adhesive

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scientists questing after a long-sought new medical adhesive describe copying the natural glue secreted by a tiny sea creature called the sandcastle worm in the latest episode in the American Chemical Society's ...


Fish robot as an alternative marine propulsion system of the future (w/Video)

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The team of Darmstadt researchers analyzed videos of fish’s motions and then developed a prototype fish robot that duplicated them, and are now testing it using the locomotional patterns of various species of fish in order ...


Astronauts trying to revive Hubble spectrograph (AP)

Stuck bolt, dead battery bedevil Hubble repairs

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 17, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (9) | comments 9

(AP) -- Spacewalkers' specially designed tools couldn't dislodge a balky bolt interfering with repairs Sunday at the Hubble Space Telescope, so they took an approach more familiar to people puttering around ...



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