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Mysterious Source of High-Energy Cosmic Radiation Discovered

Mysterious Source of High-Energy Cosmic Radiation Discovered

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 19, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (44) | comments 11

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists announced Wednesday the discovery of a previously unidentified nearby source of high-energy cosmic rays. The finding was made with a NASA-funded balloon-borne instrument high over ...





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Nanoparticles for gene therapy improve

Nanoparticles for gene therapy improve

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- About five years ago, Professor Janet Sawicki at the Lankenau Institute in Pennsylvania read an article about nanoparticles developed by MIT's Robert Langer for gene therapy, the insertion ...


Magnetic nanoparticles to simultaneously diagnose, monitor and treat

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- Whether it's magnetic nanoparticles (mNPs) giving an army of 'therapeutically armed' white blood cells direction to invade a deadly tumour's territory, or the use of mNPs to target specific nerve channels ...


Nanoparticles may cause DNA damage across a cellular barrier

Nanoparticles may cause DNA damage across a cellular barrier

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have shown in the laboratory that metal nanoparticles damaged the DNA in cells on the other side of a cellular barrier. The research, by the University of Bristol, is published ...


Crossing the line: how aggressive cells invade the brain

Crossing the line: how aggressive cells invade the brain (w/ Video)

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

In diseases such as multiple sclerosis, cells of the immune system infiltrate the brain tissue, where they cause immense damage. For many years, it was an enigma as to how these cells can escape from the bloodstream. ...


How Size Matters For Catalysts: Study Links Size, Activity, Electronic Properties

How Size Matters For Catalysts: Study Links Size, Activity, Electronic Properties

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Utah chemists demonstrated the first conclusive link between the size of catalyst particles on a solid surface, their electronic properties and their ability to speed chemical ...


Nanotechnology: A risky frontier?

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Inside a cramped back room at Rushford Hypersonic, a start-up headquartered in southeastern Minnesota, sits a cube-like machine that throws a mean atomic fastball. At the push of a button, the reactor hurls atoms toward a ...


Hubble Image Showcases Star Birth in M83, the Southern Pinwheel

Hubble Image Showcases Star Birth in M83, the Southern Pinwheel

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The spectacular new camera installed on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope during Servicing Mission 4 in May has delivered the most detailed view of star birth in the graceful, curving arms of ...


New Digital 'Electronics' Concept May Continue Moore's Law

New Digital 'Electronics' Concept May Continue Moore's Law

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (56) | comments 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computers of the future could be operating not on electrons, but on tiny waves traveling through an electron "fluid," if a new proposal is successful. The new circuit design, recently introduced ...


Spread of Western Juniper Seeds Studied

Spread of Western Juniper Seeds Studied

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Aromatic, evergreen foliage and plump, dusty-blue to nearly purple berries make western juniper appealing, whether it's a small shrub or a lofty tree. The trouble is, during the past 100 years ...


Termites? gut reactions show how to improve renewable fuel, researchers say

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Termite damage costs the U.S. more than $1 billion each year, but that same destructive power might help solve one of the nation’s most pressing economic quandaries: sustainable fuel production.



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