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It's elemental: Paper celebrates discovery of iodine

(PhysOrg.com) -- It's not every day that an element gets to celebrate a bicentennial, and a University of Delaware professor is pleased to have been invited to the "birthday party" for iodine, which was discovered ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

More than 100 years ago, 2 pioneering scientists figured out how to keep canned food safe

In the late 18th century, French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte offered a cash reward to anyone who could develop a reliable method to preserve food — and keep Napoleon’s armies fed. Fifteen years later, ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Conservators restore valuable maritime logbook

Experts have painstakingly restored the logbook from a celebrated warship from the era of the Napoleonic Wars which Nelson himself sailed upon.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jul 30, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Napoleon died of kidney illness, says new book by Danish doctor

A retired Danish doctor claimed Tuesday to have uncovered the true cause of Napoleon's death, saying the French emperor died of a lengthy kidney illness instead of the being poisoned by his enemies.

Other Sciences / Other

created May 05, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0




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Cruise ship threatens marine paradise

(AP) -- Stone fortresses and watchtowers which centuries ago stood guard against against marauding pirates loom above pristine waters threatened by a new and modern peril: fuel trapped within the capsized ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The ABCC9 of sleep: A genetic factor that regulates how long we sleep

A collaborative European study led by LMU researchers has shown that ABCC9, a known genetic factor in heart disease and diabetes, also influences the duration of sleep in humans. This function is evolutionarily conserved ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

How to discover a new element

(PhysOrg.com) -- It is not the same as it used to be, the element finding business. We have discovered and named all the elements from hydrogen (element 1) up to element 112 (copernicium)[1], and last week ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jun 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Ash clouds? You ain't seen nothing yet

The recent volcanic eruptions in Iceland upset airline bosses and caused a lot of fuss, but they were trivial by comparison with what could happen next, according to Clive Oppenheimer's new book.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 13, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (7) | comments 3

A scratched coating heals itself quickly and easily, with light not heat (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine you're driving your own new car--or a rental car--and you need to park in a commercial garage. Maybe you're going to work, visiting a mall or attending an event at a sports stadium, ...

Chemistry / Polymers

created Apr 20, 2011 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

A close-up look at the world's smallest book

What did Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Joséphine de Beauharnais (the first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte) and Stanley Marcus of the Neiman Marcus department store dynasty have in common? All were enchanted with the miniature ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Mar 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Pivotal discoveries in age-related macular degeneration

A team of researchers, led by University of Kentucky ophthalmologist Dr. Jayakrishna Ambati, has discovered a molecular mechanism implicated in geographic atrophy, the major cause of untreatable blindness ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 06, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Is $3M worth it for a Super Bowl ad? Ask GoDaddy

(AP) -- GoDaddy.com was almost unheard of six years ago. Then it ran the most talked-about ad of Super Bowl XXXIX - a spoof of Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" in which a busty woman appears before ...

Technology / Business

created Feb 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Revelations about Galileo, Bruno, and aliens

The Catholic Church and scientists have a history of clashing, but according to Vatican astronomers, some of the stories of Church persecution are distortions of the truth – more gossip than Gospel.

Other Sciences / Other

created Jan 17, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 18

Royal head: Scientists identify murdered French king

He was one of France's most adored kings, a monarch known as "le bon roi Henri" (good king Henri), who promoted religious tolerance, was a hit with the ladies and was the first to dream of putting a chicken ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 15, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 3


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