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'Ghost of Mirach' Materializes in Space Telescope Image

'Ghost of Mirach' Materializes in Space Telescope Image

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 31, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (26) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer has lifted the veil off a ghost known to haunt the local universe, providing new insight into the formation and evolution of galaxies.


Largest Ring Around Saturn

Largest Ring Around Saturn Discovered

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (32) | comments 12

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered an enormous ring around Saturn -- by far the largest of the giant planet's many rings.


Ringing endorsement: Women prefer contraceptive ring over patch

Medicine & Health / Other

created Feb 04, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In the first study to directly compare a contraceptive vaginal ring and skin patch, more women indicated overall satisfaction with the vaginal ring, researchers report in the current issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology, a publ ...


Molecule with a Split Personality

Chemistry /

created Jul 31, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (20) | comments 0

If you take a strip of paper, twist one end by 180° and then stick the two ends together to form a ring, the result is called a Möbius strip, a geometric shape with only one surface and one edge.


NASA's Spitzer Images Out-of-This-World Galaxy

NASA's Spitzer Images Out-of-This-World Galaxy

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jul 23, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (19) | comments 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has imaged a wild creature of the dark -- a coiled galaxy with an eye-like object at its center.


Creating Denser Magnetic Memory

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 07, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the issues afflicting magnetic memory is the fact that it is difficult to store information for as long as 10 years. In order to overcome this problem, scientists and engineers have been looking for ...


Carbon and oxygen in tree rings can reveal past climate information

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

The analysis of carbon and oxygen isotopes embedded in tree rings may shed new light on past climate events in the Mackenzie Delta region of northern Canada.


Variable nanocomposites

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 06, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 1

What appear under an atomic force microscope to be tiny rings with little bits missing are actually nanoscopic rings made of double-stranded DNA with a little gap in the form of a short single-stranded fragment. As Michael ...


Study of 'Persistent Currents' Finally Verifies Theory

Study of 'Persistent Currents' Finally Verifies Theory

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 28, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (23) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- Approximately 20 years ago, scientists discovered that is is possible for an electric current to flow endlessly in a ring made of a normal metal. One might think that such an 'old' finding ...


The risk of osteoarthritis and index to ring finger length ratio

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 02, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

[B]Study associates shorter second than fourth digit with independent risk for knee osteoarthritis, especially among women[/B] Index to ring finger length ratio (2D:4D) is a trait known for its sexual differences. Men typ ...



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