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Watching a 'New Star' Make the Universe Dusty

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jul 24, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer, and its remarkable acuity, astronomers were able for the first time to witness the appearance of a shell of dusty gas around a star that had just erupted, ...





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The most important candidate genes for pancreatic stone formation

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Nov 13, 2007 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Stone formation is an important feature of chronic pancreatitis, especially tropical calcific pancreatitis (TCP), where the stones are large in size, highly irregular in shape and cause enormous tissue destruction. The exact ...


Basis created for directing and filming blood vessels

Chemistry /

created Mar 26, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new method of filming blood-vessel cells that move in accordance with targeted signals has been developed by researchers at Uppsala University in collaboration with researchers at the University of California. The method ...


Neuronal survival and axonal regrowth obtained in vitro

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 24, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

While repair of the central nervous system has long been considered impossible, French researchers from Inserm, the CNRS and the UPMC have just developed a strategy that could promote neuronal regeneration after injury. The ...


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Newly discovered galaxy cluster in early stage of formation is farthest ever identified

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Mar 31, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (20) | comments 0

UC Irvine scientists have discovered a cluster of galaxies in a very early stage of formation that is 11.4 billion light years from Earth – the farthest of its kind ever to be detected. These galaxies are ...


Researchers may have solved information loss paradox to find black holes do not form

Researchers may have solved information loss paradox to find black holes do not form

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 20, 2007 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (115) | comments 0

"Nothing there," is what Case Western Reserve University physicists concluded about black holes after spending a year working on complex formulas to calculate the formation of new black holes. In nearly 13 ...


A surprise 'spark' for pre-cancerous colon polyps

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created May 14, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah studied the events leading to colon cancer and found that an unexpected protein serves as the "spark" that triggers formation of colon polyps, the precursors ...


Cosmological simulations key to understanding the universe

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Feb 17, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Tiziana Di Matteo, associate professor of physics at Carnegie Mellon University is harnessing the power of supercomputing to recreate how galaxies are born, how they develop over time and, ultimately, how they collapse.


Black holes made of light

Black Holes Made of Light

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 06, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (99) | comments 10

Scientists at the University of St Andrews have used lasers to simulate a black hole in their laboratory.


New mechanism explains how the body prevents formation of blood vessels

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers at Uppsala University, in collaboration with colleagues in Sweden and abroad, have identified an entirely new mechanism by which a specific protein in the body inhibits formation of new blood vessels. Inhibiting ...


Key Event in Cell Death Occurs as Single, Quick Event

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created Aug 03, 2006 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have demonstrated that a key event during apoptosis (cell suicide) occurs as a single, quick event, rather than as a step-by-step process. Apoptosis eliminates extraneous ...



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