News tagged with line


A healthy color: Testing for gum disease

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Apr 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers at Temple University Maurice H. Kornberg School of Dentistry found that a color-changing oral strip is as effective in detecting periodontal disease as traditional methods, and is easier and less costly to administer.


Homebody queen ants help preserve family ties in large populations

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Ant and bee colonies have long fascinated biologists because of their hierarchical social structure and the apparently altruistic behaviour of female workers in rearing the queen's young rather than reproducing themselves. ...


Catering to car buyers' desires

Catering to car buyers' desires

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Buying a new car is one of the biggest purchases most people make. But how can you be sure that the car you order will live up to your expectations? European and Asian researchers are using ...


Reversing ecology reveals ancient environments

Biology /

created Feb 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

From hair color to the ancestral line of parasitic bacteria, scientists can glean a lot from genes. But imagine if genes also revealed where you lived or who you spent time with. It turns out they do, if you know where and ...


New High Frequency Amplifier Harnesses Millimeter Waves in Silicon for Fast Wireless

New High Frequency Amplifier Harnesses Millimeter Waves in Silicon for Fast Wireless

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 11, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- New imaging and high capacity wireless communications systems are one step closer to reality, thanks to a millimeter wave amplifier invented at the University of California, San Diego and ...


Optimizing Routes and Resources for Trucking Companies

Optimizing Routes and Resources for Trucking Companies

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- As competition increases and shippers raise their expectations for service, trucking companies must optimize their routes and use of drivers, vehicles and facilities.


Slow Down -- Those Lines On The Road Are Longer Than You Think

Slow Down -- Those Lines On The Road Are Longer Than You Think

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (10) | comments 3

Take a guess -- how long are the dashed lines that are painted down the middle of a road? If you're like most people, you answered, "Two feet."


Parasites in the genome - A molecular parasite could play an important role in human evolution

Parasites in the genome -- A molecular parasite could play an important role in human evolution

Biology /

created Jan 19, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen, Germany, determined the structure of a protein (L1ORF1p), which is encoded by a parasitic genetic element and which is responsible ...


Engineers develop new power line de-icing system

Engineers develop new power line de-icing system

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 07, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dartmouth engineering professor and entrepreneur Victor Petrenko—along with his colleagues at Dartmouth and at Ice Engineering LLC in Lebanon, N.H.—have invented a way to cheaply and effectively ...


Why C is not G: How we identify letters

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 25, 2008 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (27) | comments 5

The next time you are reading a book, or even as you read this article, consider the words that you are seeing. How do you recognize these words? Substantial research has shown that while reading, we recognize words by their ...


Signaling between protein, growth factor is critical for coordinated cell migration

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 10, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The mysterious process that orchestrates cells to move in unison to form human and animal embryos, heal wounds, and even spread cancer depends on interaction between two well-known genetic signaling pathways, two University ...


Researchers write protein nanoarrays using a fountain pen and electric fields

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Oct 13, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Nanotechnology offers unique opportunities to advance the life sciences by facilitating the delivery, manipulation and observation of biological materials with unprecedented resolution. The ability to pattern nanoscale arrays ...


Young stellar objects: The source of gas emission around Herbig Ae/Be stars

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 10, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

This week, Astronomy & Astrophysics is publishing new observations with AMBER/VLTI of the gas component in the vicinity of young stars. An international team of astronomers led by E. Tatulli (Grenoble, France) and S. Kra ...


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Spallation Neutron Source sends first neutrons to 'Big Bang' beam line

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 09, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 0

New analytical tools coming on line at the Spallation Neutron Source, the Department of Energy's state-of-the-art neutron science facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, include a beam line dedicated to ...


Sharp Launches Mass Production of 2nd-Generation Thin-Film Solar Cells

Sharp Launches Mass Production of 2nd-Generation Thin-Film Solar Cells

Technology / Energy

created Oct 01, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 2

Sharp Corporation has completed installation of a new 2nd-generation thin-film solar cell production line at its Katsuragi Plant (Katsuragi City, Nara Prefecture) using large-size glass substrates measuring ...