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Dutch team has solution for troubled ITER nuclear fusion reactor

(PhysOrg.com) -- The superconducting cables designed for the ITER fusion reactor (cost: 16 billion euros = $21.2 billion) are unable to withstand the planned forty to sixty thousand charge cycles. Barring a solution, the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 4

When worlds collide: Researchers harness supercomputers to understand solar storm, magnetosphere

If the sun is anything, it is reassuring. It rises, sets, and rises again, allowing us to grow crops, get tan, and power homes, just to name a few of humanity's most important life-sustaining functions. No ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Jak of all trades? Not of leukaemia therapy

About one in five or six cases of adult leukaemia in Western populations relates to so-called chronic myeloid leukaemia, or CML. Treatment of CML usually relies on inhibitors of the abnormal protein that causes the condition ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

World's most powerful X-ray laser creates two-million-degree matter

Researchers working at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have used the world's most powerful X-ray laser to create and probe a two-million-degree piece of matter in a controlled way for the first time. ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (15) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Membrane fusion a mystery no more

The many factors that contribute to how cells communicate and function at the most basic level are still not fully understood, but researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have uncovered a mechanism that helps explain how ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

NSTX project will produce world's most powerful spherical torus

DOE's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) is getting an earlier-than-expected start on a $94 million, nearly three-year project as the next stage of its mission to chart an attractive course for the ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

One step closer to controlling nuclear fusion

Using a heating system, physicists have succeeded for the first time in preventing the development of instabilities in an efficient alternative way relevant to a future nuclear fusion reactor. It’s an ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (53) | comments 110 | with audio podcast

Automakers embrace high-tech in safety drive

Automakers displaying the latest technology at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) are relying on sensors, digital cameras and connectivity in a drive towards a common goal -- eliminating accidents.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Fusion plasma research helps neurologists to hear above the noise

Fusion plasma researchers at the University of Warwick have teamed up with Cambridge neuroscientists to apply their expertise developed to study inaccessible fusion plasmas in order to significantly improve the understanding ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Ford sets the stage for Fusion 2013 in Detroit

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ford is to cars like Apple and Microsoft are to computers; the public knows they are being marketed to the hilt but that does not stem public curiosity year after year to see the newest models ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Genetic composition of multicentric lung tumors appears to be similar

Multicentric carcinogenesis with the same genetic mutation appears to occur in lung adenocarcinoma, according to data presented at the AACR-IASLC Joint Conference on Molecular Origins of Lung Cancer: Biology, Therapy and ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New material for thermonuclear fusion reactors

Scientists at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Oxford University and the University of Michigan have joined efforts to develop new materials for thermonuclear fusion reactors. Their research focuses on characterization ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 38

Fuel for fusion

Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Fusion Pellet Fueling Lab has been at the center of design and testing of plasma fueling systems for tokamak research applications for decades. Since the mid-1970s, lab researchers ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Gene fusion in lung cancer afflicting never-smokers may be target for therapy

Smoking is a well-known risk factor for lung cancer, but nearly 25% of all lung cancer patients have never smoked. In a study published online today in Genome Research, researchers have identified a previously unknown gene f ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Jamb and Jamc are essential proteins for the fusion of muscle cells: study

Researchers at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute have discovered two proteins that are essential for the fusion of muscle cells to build muscle fibres. Their discovery might help us better understand and treat illnesses ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast