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Diamond light, brighter than the sun

It’s the size of five football pitches and generates light 10 billion times brighter than the sun. As the Diamond Light Source celebrates its tenth anniversary this year, Penny Bailey visits one of the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 15 | with audio podcast

Jurassic salamanders with stomach contents found from Inner Mongolia

Paleontologists from Chinese Academy of Sciences reported two Jurassic salamanders with stomach contents from Daohugou, Ningcheng County, Inner Mongolia, China, as reported in Chinese Science Bulletin online ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study finds substantial variability in rate of additional surgery after partial mastectomy

Nearly one in four women who undergo a partial mastectomy for treatment of breast cancer have another surgery to remove additional tissue (reexcision), and there is substantial surgeon and institutional variation in the rate ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers look at effects of two common sweeteners on the body

With growing concern that excessive levels of fructose may pose a great health risk – causing high blood pressure, kidney disease and diabetes – researchers at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, along ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 5

NASA Goddard spacecraft cleanroom goes green

When it launches in 2014, NASA's new Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission will give scientists unprecedented insights into a little-understood physical process at the heart all space weather. This process, ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 14, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Wasp rediscovered after almost 100 years

Two entomologists in search of one insect have discovered two others: a tiny wasp that hadn't been seen in North America in nearly 100 years, and one that has never been recorded here.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Prototype device measures absolute optical power in fiber at nanowatt levels

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a prototype device capable of absolute measurements of optical power delivered through an optical ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Ave Atque Vale: Botany bids 'hail and farewell' to Latin-only descriptions in 2012

In a major effort to speed up the process of officially recognizing new plant species, botanists will no longer be required to provide Latin descriptions of new species, and publication in online academic journals and books ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

UV lithography: Taking extreme measures

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometime soon, microchip fabricators will take the next major step in the relentless reduction of feature size, from the current minimum of 22 nm down to 10 nm and perhaps even smaller. Getting ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 2

Blood pressure medicines reduce stroke risk in people with prehypertension

People with prehypertension had a lower risk of stroke when they took blood pressure-lowering medicines, according to research reported in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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