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Research puts police gun detectors a step closer

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 09, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

The new technology - being designed by Newcastle, Manchester Metropolitan and Queen Mary universities - uses electro magnetic waves in order to pick up 'reflections' from concealed guns, gun barrels or knives without the ...





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Taser unveils multi-shot stun gun

Technology / Other

created Jul 28, 2009 | popularity 2.1 / 5 (8) | comments 23

Manufacturers of the Taser stun gun on Monday unveiled a new handheld weapon on Monday which is capable of shocking three people without having to reload.


Alberta's hidden valleys offer both resources and danger

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Alberta is crisscrossed with hidden glacial valleys that hold both resource treasures and potential danger. University of Alberta researcher Doug Schmitt discovered a 300 metre deep, valley hidden beneath the surface of the ...


A new weapon in the war against HIV-AIDS: Combined antiviral and targeted chemotherapy

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Jun 21, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A discovery by a team of Canadian and American researchers could provide new ways to fight HIV-AIDS. According to a new study published in Nature Medicine, HIV-AIDS could be treated through a combination of targeted chemot ...


Hidden treasure: Technique reveals buried image in famed illustrator's painting

Hidden treasure: Technique reveals buried image in famed illustrator's painting

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Aug 19, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Scientists today reported use of a new X-ray imaging technique to reveal for the first time in a century unprecedented details of a painting hidden beneath another painting by famed American illustrator N.C. ...


PMH clinicians map group at high risk for aggressive, 'hidden' prostate cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Clinical researchers at Princess Margaret Hospital (PMH) can now answer the question that baffles many clinicians - why do some men with elevated prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels who are carefully monitored and undergo ...


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Biologists uncover top wetland plant's hidden weapon

Biology /

created Oct 12, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (26) | comments 1

Scientists at the University of Delaware have uncovered a hidden weapon that one of the most invasive wetland plants in the United States uses to silently and efficiently “bump off” its neighbors.


The hidden lives of proteins

The hidden lives of proteins

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

An important Brandeis study appearing in the December 3 issue of Nature raises the curtain on the hidden lives of proteins at the atomic level. The study reports that for the first time, researchers used x ...


Gossip in the workplace: A weapon or gift, new research from IU

Gossip in the workplace: A weapon or gift

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Gossip in the workplace can be a weapon in reputational warfare or a gift and can offer clues to power and influence not found on organizational charts. New research from Indiana University details how the ...


Researchers find molecule that kills kidney cancer cells

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jul 07, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (20) | comments 2

Kidney cancer patients generally have one option for beating their disease: surgery to remove the organ.


A Cell’s Private Life: Researchers Peer Inside a Hidden Protein

A Cell's Private Life: Researchers Peer Inside a Hidden Protein

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 30, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- To understand the molecular machinery of the human body, scientists have to be able to observe the structure of cellular proteins. This has been particularly challenging for those proteins ...



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