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Self-destructing bacteria improve renewable biofuel production

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created 8 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

An Arizona State University research team has developed a process that removes a key obstacle to producing lower-cost, renewable biofuels. The team has programmed a photosynthetic microbe to self-destruct, making the recovery ...


Elusive protein points to mechanism behind hearing loss

Elusive protein points to mechanism behind hearing loss

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created 12 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A serendipitous discovery of deaf zebra fish larvae has helped narrow down the function of an elusive protein necessary for hearing and balance. The work, led by Rockefeller University’s A. ...


Gene Hijacked By HIV Ancestor Suggests New Way to Block Viral Reproduction

Gene Hijacked By HIV Ancestor Suggests New Way to Block Viral Reproduction

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created 22 hours ago | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An ancestor of the AIDS virus hijacked an entire gene, perhaps from some prehistoric cat it had infected, a gene that makes it much better able to infect humans, according to a study published ...


Cosmic rays hunted down: Physicists are closing in on the origin of cosmic rays

Cosmic rays hunted down: Physicists are closing in on the origin of cosmic rays

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created 22 hours ago | popularity 4.2 / 5 (9) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- A thin rain of charged particles continually bombards our atmosphere from outer space. The mysterious particles were first detected 100 years ago but until 10 years ago when a new type of ...


Nvidia, AMD shares jump after Intel scraps chip

Technology / Business

created 23 hours ago | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Shares of Nvidia Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. jumped Monday after rival Intel Corp. scrapped plans to make a new graphics chip that would have challenged both companies.


Lightning

Lightning-produced radiation a potential health concern for air travelers

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (9) | comments 6

New information about lightning-emitted X-rays, gamma rays and high-energy electrons during thunderstorms is prompting scientists to raise concerns about the potential for airline passengers and crews to be ...


Researchers demonstrate nanoscale X-ray imaging of bacterial cells

Researchers demonstrate nanoscale X-ray imaging of bacterial cells

Physics / General Physics

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

An ultra-high-resolution imaging technique using X-ray diffraction is a step closer to fulfilling its promise as a window on nanometer-scale structures in biological samples. In the Proceedings of the National Ac ...


Single-atom transistor discovered

Scientists build 'single-atom transistor'

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (30) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Helsinki University of Technology (Finland), University of New South Wales (Australia), and University of Melbourne (Australia) have succeeded in building a working transistor, ...


Case Western Reserve researchers' new pathway discovery published as 'Paper of the Week'

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Case Western Reserve University researchers, from the School of Medicine's Department of Nutrition, discovered two new metabolic pathways by which products of lipid peroxidation and some drugs of abuse, known as 4-hydroxyacids, ...


Snowman

Scientists Create World's Smallest Snowman (w/ Video)

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (18) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- David Cox, a scientist in the Quantum Detection group at the National Physical Laboratory in the UK, is an expert in nanofabrication techniques. Recently, using the tools of his trade and ...



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