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Salt Water System

Salt Water System Could Generate Hydrogen

Physics / Soft Matter

created Mar 18, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (31) | comments 18

(PhysOrg.com) -- The idea of generating hydrogen from salt water has often been claimed to work effectively. However, the systems proposed so far generally require a much greater energy input than the energy ...





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Jefferson neurosurgeon helps draft new treatment guidelines for brain metastases

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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New treatment guidelines for patients with brain metastases are now available from the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS). David Andrews, M.D., F.A.C.S., ...


Biofunctionalized magnetic-vortex microdiscs

Highlight: Biofunctionalized magnetic-vortex microdiscs

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created 18 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Users from Argonne's Materials Science Division and University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine, working collaboratively on a user science project with CNM's Nanobio Interfaces Group, have discovered ...


Class-action suit pits woman against 'dishonest' ads on Facebook

Technology / Internet

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A 41-year-old part-time dance instructor and graphic designer from Santa Cruz is the face of a class-action lawsuit designed to force Web sites that offer social gaming to rein in what she calls deceptive ads.


NASA's WISE Set to Blast Off and Map the Skies

NASA's WISE Set to Blast Off and Map the Skies

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created 20 hours ago | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The countdown clock is ticking, with just days to go before the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, rockets into space on a mission to map the entire sky in infrared light.


Researchers uncover chemical basis for extra 'quality control' in protein production

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created 20 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

December 9, 2009 -Even small errors made by cells during protein production can have profound disease effects, and nature has developed ways to uncover these mistakes and correct them. Though in the case of one essential ...


Disagreement Over Mammography Task Force Study

Disagreement Over Mammography Task Force Study

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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When a government-appointed panel of experts released new guidelines last month calling for fewer routine mammograms, they were met with public confusion, political outrage, and a media storm that left women ...


Cyclone Cleo has reached its maximum wind speed

Cyclone Cleo has reached its maximum wind speed

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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NASA Satellites noticed that Tropical Cyclone Cleo had reached its maximum strength, and was now moving into areas that will weaken it. Cleo's maximum sustained winds were near 115 mph (100 knots), with gusts ...


Stem cell derived neurons for research relevant to Alzheimer's and Niemann-Pick type C diseases

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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

Stem cell derived neurons may allow scientists to determine whether breakdowns in the transport of proteins, lipids and other materials within cells trigger the neuronal death and neurodegeneration that characterize Alzheimer's ...


Life after silicon

Life after silicon: Using exotic materials to help microchips keep improving

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The huge increases in the power and capacity of computers, cell phones and communications networks in the last 40 years have been the result of ever-shrinking silicon transistors. But silicon ...


EU antitrust chief slams senators on Oracle deal

Technology / Business

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 4

(AP) -- The European Union's antitrust chief said Tuesday that U.S. senators who pressed her to approve Oracle Corp.'s takeover of Sun Microsystems Inc. should stop interfering in Europe's affairs and prioritize U.S. health ...



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