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INL develops safer, more efficient nuclear fuel for next-gen reactors

INL develops safer, more efficient nuclear fuel for next-gen reactors

Technology / Energy

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 6

As the nation ponders its energy choices, Americans keep asking themselves: how can the country make better use of its resources and emit fewer greenhouse gases without hurting U.S. industries? A research ...


Laser therapy can aggravate skin cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 1

High irradiances of low-level laser therapy (LLLT) should not be used over melanomas. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Cancer studied the pain relieving, anti-inflammatory 'cold laser', finding that it cau ...


Advanced nuclear fuel sets global performance record

Advanced nuclear fuel sets global performance record

Technology / Energy

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (21) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Idaho National Laboratory scientists have set a new world record with next-generation particle fuel for use in high temperature gas reactors (HTGRs).


Powerful laser sheds light on fast ignition and high energy density physics

Powerful laser sheds light on fast ignition and high energy density physics

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

A new generation of high-energy (>kJ) petawatt (HEPW) lasers is being constructed worldwide to study high intensity laser matter interactions, including fast ignition. Fast ignition is a laser-based technique ...


Preventative brain radiation for lung cancer patients: Benefits and risks

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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

A new study is taking a closer look at the benefits versus risks for lung cancer patients to undergo preventative brain radiation therapy as a means to stop cancer from spreading to the brain.


Exercise can aid recovery after brain radiation

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Exercise is a key factor in improving both memory and mood after whole-brain radiation treatments in rodents, according to data presented by Duke University scientists at the Society for Neuroscience meeting.


More efficient solar power with space technology

More efficient solar power with space technology

Technology / Energy

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new system from an Italian company uses weather satellite data to estimate the potential of solar cell power plants and monitor their performance. The approach helps to give a faster return ...


Death by light: Nanoparticles as agents for the photodynamic killing of antibiotic-resistant bacteria

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The increasing antibiotic resistance of bacteria is a serious problem of our time. Hospital germs in particular have developed strains against which practically every current antibiotic is ineffective. In ...


New Idaho National Lab collaboration tackles nuclear fuel recycling science

New INL project tackles nuclear fuel recycling science

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new research project at Idaho National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory will use an innovative approach to learn how to get more use from nuclear fuel.


IAEA removes dangerous radioactive sources from Lebanon

Space & Earth / Environment

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

An IAEA mission to get powerful radioactive sources out of Lebanon was completed 30 August 2009, after a plane carrying the high-activity cargo safely touched down in Russia, where the sources are now securely and safely ...


Self-destructing messages: Light-reactive coatings make metal nanoparticles into inks for self-erasing paper

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Those who like to watch spy movies like “Mission Impossible” are familiar with the self-destructing messages that inform the secret agents of the details of their mission and then dissolve in a puff of smoke. ...


Radiation therapy may increase diabetes risk in childhood cancer survivors

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Childhood cancer survivors treated with total body or abdominal radiation may have an increased risk of diabetes, according to a report in the August 10/24 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. This correlation does not ap ...


External beam partial breast irradiation most cost-effective treatment

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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

External beam partial breast irradiation (EB-PBI) is the most cost-effective method for treating postmenopausal women with early-stage breast cancer based on utilities, recurrence risks and costs when compared to whole breast ...


Radiation device in the breast reduces complications for early stage breast cancer patients

Radiation device in the breast reduces complications for early stage breast cancer patients

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

A new study shows that the SAVI applicator, a small, expandable device inserted inside the breast to deliver partial breast irradiation, carries a low infection risk, a potential complication of such devices. ...


Mars

The search for unusual alien life on Earth and life that can survive on Mars

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Questions such as "How to search for weird alien life?" and "Would Earth microbes survive if delivered to the surface of Mars?" are addressed in articles that are part of the collection of reports presented ...