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'FEAsy' analyzes designs from raw sketches to speed parts creation (w/ Video)

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Going back to the drawing board is much easier now that researchers have developed a new type of design program called FEAsy.


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New 'nano-positioners' may have atomic-scale precision

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 20, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 1

Engineers have created a tiny motorized positioning device that has twice the dexterity of similar devices being developed for applications that include biological sensors and more compact, powerful computer ...





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Biology of emergent Salmonella exposed

Biology of emergent Salmonella exposed

Biology / Biotechnology

created 19 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers have characterised a new multi drug resistant strain of Salmonella Typhimurium that is causing life-threatening disease in Africa.


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Reference Genome of Maize Published (w/ Podcast)

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A four-year, multi-institutional effort co-led by three Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory scientists culminated today in publication of a landmark series of papers in the journal Science reveal ...


The protein Srebp2 drives cholesterol formation in prion-infected neuronal cells

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Prions are causing fatal and infectious diseases of the nervous system, such as the mad cow disease (BSE), scrapie in sheep or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans. Scientists of Helmholtz Zentrum München and Technische Universität ...


New research analyzes issues in immigration law

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

University of Miami Law Professor Rebecca A. Sharpless has recently authored a research paper titled, "Toward a True Elements Test: Taylor and the Categorical Analysis of Crimes in Immigration Law."


New neuroimaging analysis technique identifies impact of Alzheimer's disease gene in healthy brains

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Brain imaging can offer a window into risk for diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD). A study conducted at the University of Kansas School of Medicine demonstrated that genetic risk is expressed in the brains of even ...


Exoplanets Clue to Sun's Curious Chemistry

Exoplanets Clue to Sun's Curious Chemistry

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (21) | comments 15

(PhysOrg.com) -- A ground-breaking census of 500 stars, 70 of which are known to host planets, has successfully linked the long-standing "lithium mystery" observed in the Sun to the presence of planetary systems. ...


3 Questions: Jeffrey Harris on why we still don't have an HIV vaccine

3 Questions: Jeffrey Harris on why we still don't have an HIV vaccine

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

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

While many vaccines used around the world today are produced for profit by commercial firms, the private sector accounts for a tiny fraction of the funding for an HIV vaccine: 4 percent in 2008, down from ...


Iron controls patterns of nitrogen fixation in the Atlantic

Iron controls patterns of nitrogen fixation in the Atlantic

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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

Scientists including researchers from the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton and the University of Essex have discovered that interactions between iron supply, transported through the atmosphere from ...


'On the origin of nematodes' -- A phylogenetic tree of the world’s most numerous group of animals

'On the origin of nematodes' -- A phylogenetic tree of the world’s most numerous group of animals

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists from Wageningen University and Research Centre have published the largest nematode Phylogenetic Tree to date in cooperation with the Dutch Plant Protection Service (PD) and the University of California ...


Silicon brittle? Not this kind!

Silicon brittle? Not this kind!

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Silicon, the most important semiconductor material of all, is usually considered to be as brittle and breakable as window glass. On the nanometer scale, however, the substance exhibits very ...



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