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Highlight: Solar - Bridging the gap

Physics / General Physics

created 14 hours ago | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Titanium dioxide, the same inexpensive white pigment that protects us from sunburns, can be converted into a material that absorbs sunlight and could greatly increase the efficiency of solar energy cells.


Study highlights implications of influenza pandemics on blood supplies

Medicine & Health / Other

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

A German research team has examined data on supply and demand for blood transfusions against a computer simulation of an influenza pandemic, and discovered that a severe pandemic scenario could quickly lead to a deficit of ...


Low-density lipoprotein receptor reduces damage in Alzheimer's brain

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The low-density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR) has received a lot of attention because of its connection with coronary heart disease and atherosclerosis, but now it appears as if it may have a beneficial influence in degenerative ...


Physical education teaching staff play key role in making you like sport

Physical education teaching staff play key role in making you like sport

Medicine & Health / Health

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What factors have an influence in making us like sport in the physical education classes we receive in school? According to a new investigation, physical education teaching staff must develop the responsibility, ...


Higher risk for heart disease and diabetes associated with androgen deprivation therapy

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Men of all ages treated for prostate cancer with androgen deprivation therapy, specifically with gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists (GnRH), have an increased risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease, according to ...


Quitting smoking can reverse asthma-inducing changes in lungs

Medicine & Health / Health

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

Asthmatic smokers may be able to reverse some of the damage to their lungs that exacerbates asthmatic symptoms just by putting down their cigarettes, according to research out of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.


Climate projections underestimate CO2 impact

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created 6 hours ago | popularity 3.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

The climate may be 30-50 percent more sensitive to atmospheric carbon dioxide in the long term than previously thought, according to a recent study published in Nature Geoscience.


Does weak equivalence break down at the quantum level?

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (24) | comments 17

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the givens in physics is the weak equivalence principle. This principle has been considered solid since Einstein proposed that it is not possible to detect the difference between uniform acceleration ...


Understanding ocean climate

Understanding ocean climate

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created 11 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

High-resolution computer simulations performed by scientists at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS) are helping to understand the inflow of North Atlantic water to the Arctic Ocean and how ...


The battle of the sexes

Ovaries must suppress their inner male

Biology / Biotechnology

created 10 hours ago | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

For an ovary to remain an ovary, the female organ has to continuously suppress its inner capacity to become male. That's the conclusion of a study in the December 11th issue of the journal Cell revealing that t ...



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