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All in sight: Scientists test infrared system for the protection of whales

All in sight: Scientists test infrared system for the protection of whales

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new measurement system for the detection of whales is used for the first time on board of the research vessel Polarstern. Whales are usually difficult to spot. On the one hand, they spend the greater part ...


DNA repair mechanisms relocate in response to stress

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Like doctors making house calls, some DNA repair enzymes can relocate to the part of the cell that needs their help, a collaborative team of scientists at Emory University School of Medicine has found.





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Nanotech in Space: Experiment To Weather the Trials of Orbit

Nanotech in Space: Experiment To Weather the Trials of Orbit

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Novel nanomaterials developed at Rensselaer were sent into orbit on Nov. 16 aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis.


New cancer target for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Physician-scientists from Weill Cornell Medical College have discovered a molecular mechanism that may prove to be a powerful target for the treatment of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a type of cancer that affects lymphocytes, ...


New combination therapy could deliver powerful punch to breast cancer

New combination therapy could deliver powerful punch to breast cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A powerful new breast cancer treatment could result from packaging one of the newer drugs that inhibits cancer's hallmark wild growth with another that blocks a primordial survival technique in which the cancer ...


Optical properties of the Antarctic system and new radiation information

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The Antarctic system comprises of the continent itself, Antarctica, and the ocean surrounding it, the Southern Ocean. In a study for a doctoral degree by geophysicist Kai Rasmus, University of Helsinki, Finland, measurements ...


Nanotech in Space: Rensselaer Experiment To Weather the Trials of Orbit

Nanotech in Space: Rensselaer Experiment To Weather the Trials of Orbit

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Novel nanomaterials developed at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are scheduled to blast off into orbit on November 16 aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis.


New explanation for nature's hardiest life form

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Got food poisoning? The cause might be bacterial spores, en extremely hardy survival form of bacteria, a nightmare for health care and the food industry and an enigma for scientists. Spore-forming bacteria, present almost ...


A bubbling ball of gas

A bubbling ball of gas (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (18) | comments 7

The Sun is a bubbling mass. Packages of gas rise and sink, lending the sun its grainy surface structure, its granulation. Dark spots appear and disappear, clouds of matter dart up - and behind the whole thing ...


The Stars My Destination

The Stars My Destination

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (23) | comments 2

The Voyager spacecraft are now in the outermost layer of the heliosphere, traveling toward interstellar space - the first man-made spacecraft to travel such a vast distance from Earth.


Capturing those in-between moments: Researchers solves timing problem in molecular modeling

Capturing those in-between moments: Researchers solves timing problem in molecular modeling

Physics / General Physics

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

A theoretical physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology has developed a method for calculating the motions and forces of thousands of atoms simultaneously over a wider range of time scales ...


Adapting space-industry technology to treat breast cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at Rush University Medical Center and Argonne National Laboratory are collaborating on a study to determine if an imaging technique used by NASA to inspect the space shuttle can be used to predict tissue damage ...



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