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Scientists fool bacteria into killing themselves to survive

Scientists fool bacteria into killing themselves to survive

Biology /

created Dec 16, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (26) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Like firemen fighting fire with fire, researchers at the University of Illinois and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst have found a way to fool a bacteria's evolutionary machinery ...





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New Synthetic Compound Message to Drug-Resistant Bacteria: 'Resistance is Futile'

Chemistry /

created Jan 21, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the University of Illinois have developed a smart new synthetic compound that not only targets some drug-resistant bacteria and kills them, but the ...


Podcast: Reproducing a Black Hole in the Laboratory, and other Quantum Theories

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

In a recent study, Professor of Physics and Astronomy Miles Blencowe and his colleagues proposed a new way of creating a reproduction black hole in the laboratory.


Chinese scientists create metamaterial black hole

Chinese scientists create metamaterial black hole

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (55) | comments 20

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two physicists in China have used metamaterials to create the first artificial electromagnetic black hole. The scientists, Qiang Cheng and Tie Jun Cui from the Southeast University in Nanjing, ...


Cygnus X-1: Still a "Star"

Cygnus X-1: Still a 'Star' After All Those Years

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Aug 28, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 4

Since its discovery 45 years ago, Cygnus X-1 has been one of the most intensively studied cosmic X-ray sources. About a decade after its discovery, Cygnus X-1 secured a place in the history of astronomy when ...


NASA Satellite Data Show Progress of 2009 Antarctic Ozone Hole

NASA Satellite Data Show Progress of 2009 Antarctic Ozone Hole (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The annual ozone hole has started developing over the South Pole, and it appears that it will be comparable to ozone depletions over the past decade. This composite image from September 10 ...


Mass. center to build ocean monitoring stations

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 07, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- A Massachusetts ocean studies institute is building underwater data collection stations to help researchers understand the ocean's role in climate change.


Black Hole Pumps Iron

Black Hole Pumps Iron

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (15) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- This composite image of the Hydra A galaxy cluster shows 10-million- degree gas observed by Chandra in blue and jets of radio emission observed by the Very Large Array in pink. Optical data ...


Living fossils hold record of 'supermassive' kick

Living fossils hold record of 'supermassive' kick

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 9

The tight cluster of stars surrounding a supermassive black hole after it has been violently kicked out of a galaxy represents a new kind of astronomical object and a fossil record of the kick.


This year the hole began forming "earlier than before" said WMO's expert on the ozone Geir Braathen

Ozone hole smaller in 2009 than 2008: WMO

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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

The World Meteorological Organisation said Wednesday that the ozone hole is expected to be smaller in 2009 than a year ago.


Radiologists and engineers develop a modified catheter to reduce contrast material injuries

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Though rare, IV contrast material administration can sometimes result in patient injury. However researchers have developed a modified catheter that may prevent such events from occurring, according to a study in the October ...



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