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A fantastic voyage brought to life

A fantastic voyage brought to life

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 15, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (9) | comments 4

Ever since the 1966 Hollywood movie, doctors have imagined a real-life Fantastic Voyage -- a medical vehicle shrunk small enough to "submarine" in and fix faulty cells in the body. Thanks to new research by ...





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6,000km trip to reveal clues to ancient migration

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 06, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Two Durham University scientists are to play a key part in a 6000km trip following the migration route of ancient Pacific cultures.


Fantastic voyage: From science fiction to reality

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 19, 2007 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Some 40 years after the release of the classic science fiction movie Fantastic Voyage, researchers in the NanoRobotics Laboratory of École Polytechnique de Montréal’s Department of Computer Engineering and Institute of Biomedical ...


Researcher finds El Nino may have been factor in Magellan's Pacific voyage

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created May 15, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

A new paper by North Carolina State University archaeologist Dr. Scott Fitzpatrick shows that Ferdinand Magellan’s historic circumnavigation of the globe was likely influenced in large part by unusual weather conditions – ...


Scientists react as they stand in front of a screen at CERN

First atoms reported smashed in Large Hadron Collider (Update)

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (35) | comments 24

Two circulating beams on Monday produced the first particle collisions in the world's biggest atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), three days after its restart, scientists announced.


Fantastic Voyage: A new nanoscale view of the biological world

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Oct 05, 2006 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (24) | comments 0

Echoing the journey through the human body in Fantastic Voyage, doctors might soon be able to track individual donor cells after a transplant, or to find where and how much of a cancer treatment drug there is within a cell.


The lost voyage: First English-led expedition to North America

The lost voyage: First English-led expedition to North America

Other Sciences / Other

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Evidence of a previously unknown voyage to North America in 1499, led by a Bristol explorer, is to be published this week in the academic journal Historical Research.


Coral and Anemones

Deep-sea researchers uncover several new species and thousands of fossilized coral samples

Biology /

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

Scientists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and an international team of collaborators have returned from a month-long deep-sea voyage to a marine reserve near Tasmania, Australia, that ...


Maritime Archaeologist at Helm of Modern Journey to Ancient Egyptian Land

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Mar 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ancient Egyptians may be best known for building pyramids, but internationally renowned maritime archaeologist Cheryl Ward wants the world to know that they were pretty good sailors, too.


Darwin egg from Beagle voyage found by museum volunteer

Biology / Other

created Apr 10, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (11) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- An egg collected by Charles Darwin while on HMS Beagle - and thought to be the last such specimen known to exist - has been rediscovered by an octogenarian volunteer at Cambridge University's Zoology Museum.


Microsoft CEO: Windows 7 Japan sales 'fantastic' (AP)

Microsoft CEO: Windows 7 Japan sales 'fantastic'

Technology / Software

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(AP) -- Sales of Microsoft Corp.'s new Windows 7 operating system have been "fantastic" in Japan since its launch last month, CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday.



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