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Pollution dims skies as well as befouling the air

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 1.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

A University of Maryland-led team has compiled the first decades-long database of aerosol measurements over land, making possible new research into how air pollution changes affect climate change.





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Atmospheric 'sunshade' could reduce solar power generation

Atmospheric 'sunshade' could reduce solar power generation

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 27

The concept of delaying global warming by adding particles into the upper atmosphere to cool the climate could unintentionally reduce peak electricity generated by large solar power plants by as much as one-fifth, ...


Brian May, guitarist for rock band Queen, completes Ph.D. thesis following 30-year hiatus

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 31, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (24) | comments 0

Brian May, the guitarist and founding member of the legendary rock band Queen, earned his PhD in astronomy last year from Imperial College London. His PhD thesis A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud has ju ...


Fermi telescope detects gamma-ray from 'star factories' in other galaxies

Fermi Telescope Detects Gamma-Ray From 'Star Factories' in Other Galaxies

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Nearby galaxies undergoing a furious pace of star formation also emit lots of gamma rays, say astronomers using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Two so-called "starburst" galaxies, plus a satellite ...


The Search For The History Of The Universe's Light Emission

The Search For The History Of The Universe's Light Emission

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created Apr 20, 2006 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

The light emitted from all objects in the Universe during its entire history - stars, galaxies, quasars etc. forms a diffuse sea of photons that permeates intergalactic space, referred to as "diffuse extragalactic ...


Researchers fine-tune diffuse optical tomography for breast cancer screening

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Clemson University researchers in collaboration with researchers at the University of Bremen, Germany, are working to make the physical pain and discomfort of mammograms a thing of the past, while allowing for diagnostic ...


Chinese scientists create metamaterial black hole

Chinese scientists create metamaterial black hole

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (54) | comments 20

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two physicists in China have used metamaterials to create the first artificial electromagnetic black hole. The scientists, Qiang Cheng and Tie Jun Cui from the Southeast University in Nanjing, ...


Fluorescence diffuse optical tomography provides high contrast, 3-D look at breast cancer

Fluorescence diffuse optical tomography provides high contrast, 3-D look at breast cancer

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 13, 2007 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have created the first three-dimensional optical images of human breast cancer in patients based on tissue fluorescence.


Hubble Illuminates Cluster of Diverse Galaxies

Hubble Illuminates Cluster of Diverse Galaxies

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Feb 06, 2007 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (11) | comments 0

This image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows the diverse collection of galaxies in the cluster Abell S0740 that is over 450 million light-years away in the direction of the constellation Centaurus.


Toward a fast, life-saving test for identifying the purity of heroin

Toward a fast, life-saving test for identifying the purity of heroin

Chemistry /

created Sep 22, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists in Spain are reporting an advance toward a new method for determining the purity of heroin that could save lives by allowing investigators to quickly identify impure and more toxic forms of the ...


Babies' brains to be monitored using light scans

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 21, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers hoping to better understand the development of the infant brain have long been stymied by a formidable obstacle: babies just don't want to sit still for brain scans.



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