News tagged with max planck institute
Infant galaxies -- small and hyperactive
Feb 05, 2009 |
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Galaxies, including our own Milky Way, consist of hundreds of billions of stars. How did such gigantic galactic systems come into being? Did a central region with stars first form then with time grow? Or did ...
Black hole outflows from Centaurus A detected with APEX
Jan 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have a new insight into the active galaxy Centaurus A (NGC 5128), as the jets and lobes emanating from the central black hole have been imaged at submillimetre wavelengths for ...
The path to history is through the stomach
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Jan 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Helicobacter pylori can cause stomach ulcers and cancers. Over half of the world’s inhabitants carrys this bacterium, but different variants are present on different continents. Up to now, ...
A crystal clear view of chalk formation
Jan 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It has a beautiful, but also an unpleasant side: crystallization determines the shape of precious stones, but also causes the lime scale in washing machines. How this comes about, has been ...
Tiny lasers get a notch up
Jan 22, 2009 |
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Tiny disk-shaped lasers as small as a speck of dust could one day beam information through optical computers. Unfortunately, a perfect disk will spray light out, not as a beam, but in all directions. New theoretical results, ...
Parasites in the genome -- A molecular parasite could play an important role in human evolution
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Jan 19, 2009 |
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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 ...
A crystal clear view of chalk formation
Jan 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It has a beautiful, but also an unpleasant side: crystallization determines the shape of precious stones, but also causes the lime scale in washing machines. How this comes about, has been ...
A good night's sleep protects against parasites
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Jan 09, 2009 |
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Animal species that sleep for longer do not suffer as much from parasite infestation and have a greater concentration of immune cells in their blood according to a study published in the open-access journal BMC Evolutionary Bi ...
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