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Physics research with atomic force microscope could lead to better health care

Atomic force microscope research could lead to better health care

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Where biology, chemistry and physics intersect, a Kansas State University professor expects to find applications to improve human health.





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Super Typhoon Nida to pass east of Iwo To and Chichi Jima

Super Typhoon Nida to pass east of Iwo To and Chichi Jima

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nida is still holding on to Super Typhoon status in the Western Pacific Ocean, and over the weekend, is forecast to pass east of both Iwo To and Chichi Jima islands. Although the center of Nida will remain ...


Computational microscope peers into the working ribosome

Computational microscope peers into the working ribosome (w/ Video)

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 2

Two new studies reveal in unprecedented detail how the ribosome interacts with other molecules to assemble new proteins and guide them toward their destination in biological cells. The studies used molecular ...


Can a plant be altruistic?

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

The concept of altruism has long been debated in philosophical circles, and more recently, evolutionary biologists have joined the debate. From the perspective of natural selection, altruism may have evolved because any ...


Scientists visualize assembly line gears in ribosomes, cell's protein factory

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Even as research on the ribosome, one of the cell's most basic machines, is recognized with a Nobel Prize, scientists continue to achieve new insights on the way ribosomes work.


How RNA polymerase II gets the go-ahead for gene transcription

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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

All cells perform certain basic functions. Each must selectively transcribe parts of the DNA that makes up its genome into RNAs that specify the structure of proteins. The set of proteins synthesized by a cell in turn determines ...


Is your cellphone a source of pain?

Medicine & Health / Other

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

Jill Garonzik Kelley of Allen, Texas, is thankful for unlimited minutes on her cellphone. After all, she did rack up 4,500 last month. What the 41-year-old advertising strategist is not as happy about is the pain after a ...


Micromuscles: Micrometer-Sized Actuators from Liquid-crystal Elastomers (w/ Video)

Micromuscles: Micrometer-Sized Actuators from Liquid-crystal Elastomers (w/ Video)

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Aug 11, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

To move your arm or leg, certain muscles need to change shape, to either lengthen or contract. Now scientists have made liquid-crystalline particles that can change shape in a similar way, but which are only ...


Secrets of a Life-Giving Amino Acid Revealed

Secrets of a Life-Giving Amino Acid Revealed

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 16, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Selenium is a trace element crucial to life -- too little or too much of it is fatal. In the July 17 issue of the journal Science, researchers at Yale University and University of Illinois at Chi ...


Study: Aerobic activity may keep the brain young

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

New research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine finds that aerobic activity may keep the brain young.


Unlike rubber bands, molecular bonds may not break faster when pulled

Chemistry / Materials Science

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

From balloons to rubber bands, things always break faster when stretched. Or do they? University of Illinois scientists studying chemical bonds now have shown this isn't always the case, and their results may have profound ...



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