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Miracle Aussie baby beats rare condition in world first

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 3

A "miracle" Australian baby has become the first person cured of a rare and deadly brain-melting condition after doctors gambled on an experimental drug tested only on mice, they said Thursday.


Secret ingredient for the health of tropical rainforests found

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 09, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (22) | comments 2

A team of researchers led by Princeton University scientists has found for the first time that tropical rainforests, a vital part of the Earth's ecosystem, rely on the rare trace element molybdenum to capture the nitrogen ...


Lake Research That Isn't All Wet

Lake Research That Isn't All Wet

Space & Earth / Environment

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- The federal government may not have been able to save California from massive budget cuts, but at least a stimulus research grant will help scientists understand the biology of western lakes.


Controlling the size of nanoclusters

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 19, 2008 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Melissa Patterson, a W. Burghardt Turner Fellow at Stony Brook University (SBU), will give a talk at the American Chemical Society's national meeting in Philadelphia on controlling the size of nanoclusters, research she performed ...


Controlling the Size of Nanoclusters: First Step in Making New Catalysts

Controlling the Size of Nanoclusters: First Step in Making New Catalysts

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 09, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (13) | comments 2

Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University have developed a new instrument that allows them to control the size of nanoclusters — groups of 10 ...


New method for manufacturing radio isotopes

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 11, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Thanks to a newly-developed technology at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, global shortages of radio isotopes for cancer diagnosis could be a thing of the past. This is the message from Prof. Bert Wolterbeek ...