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Microswimmers" make a big splash for improved drug delivery

Chemistry /

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

They may never pose a challenge to Olympic superstar Michael Phelps, but the "microswimmers" developed by researchers in Spain and the United Kingdom could break a long-standing barrier to improving delivery of medications ...





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Invisibility visualized: German team unveils new software for rendering cloaked objects

Invisibility visualized: German team unveils new software for rendering cloaked objects

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists and curiosity seekers who want to know what a partially or completely cloaked object would look like in real life can now get their wish -- virtually. A team of researchers at the ...


First view of Earth as Rosetta approaches home

Rosetta sees a living planet

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Images and data taken just before closest approach were downloaded this morning, and they show the lights of North America in the night and a glowing Southern Hemisphere.


Government's NHS Plan linked to striking improvements in critical care

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Survival among patients in intensive care units in England has improved significantly since the implementation of the NHS Plan in 2000, finds new research published in BMJ today.


Enjoying school key to tackling teenage pregnancy

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Youth development programmes that tackle deprivation and help children and young people enjoy school are successful in reducing teenage pregnancy rates, say researchers in BMJ today.


Quarter of a million children in England at risk of skin cancer from sunbeds

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

An estimated quarter of a million 11-17 year olds in England are being put at increased risk of developing malignant melanoma by using sunbeds, warn researchers in a letter to this week's BMJ.


First view of Earth as Rosetta approaches home

First view of Earth as Rosetta approaches home

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- This spectacular image of our home planet was captured by the OSIRIS instrument on ESA's Rosetta comet chaser earlier today as the spacecraft approached Earth for the third and final swingby. ...


SEA to conduct expedition dedicated to measuring plastic marine debris in the North Atlantic Ocean

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Sea Education Association (SEA) is preparing to conduct the first-ever research expedition dedicated solely to examining the accumulation of plastic marine debris in the North Atlantic Ocean.


Coffee break: Compound brewing new research in colon, breast cancer

Coffee break: Compound brewing new research in colon, breast cancer (w/ Podcast)

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A compound in coffee has been found to be estrogenic in studies by Texas AgriLife Research scientists.


Clicker.com aims to become Internet video usher

Technology / Internet

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Web surfing is becoming more like channel surfing as television shows, movies and music videos pour onto the Internet.


The narrow line between love and jealousy

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A new study carried out at the University of Haifa has found that the hormone oxytocin, the "love hormone", which affects behaviors such as trust, empathy and generosity, also affects opposite behaviors, such as jealousy ...



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