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Humidity key to healthy nails suggests new research
Aug 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Maintaining normal humidity around you could be the key to attractive and healthy fingernails, according to new research from The University of Manchester.
Power thrust for spider silk
Apr 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Spiderman would definitely have an easier time of things with this spider silk - for example, if he had to stop a getaway car moving off at 100 kilometres per hour. A five-millimetre-thick ...
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Look ma, no mercury in fillings!
Nov 09, 2009 |
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Tooth enamel is hardest material in the human body because it's made almost entirely of minerals. As tough as it may be, however, enamel can be broken down by bacteria, forming cavities and eventually destroying the tooth. ...
Dandelion rubber
Sep 10, 2009 |
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Most natural rubber comes from rubber trees in Southeast Asia, but this source is now under threat from a fungus. Researchers have optimized the Russian dandelion to make it suitable for large-scale rubber ...
Hybrid composite for root canal treatment
Nov 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A dentist carrying out root canal treatment will need to use a variety of compounds. These do not always bond together properly and sometimes expensive follow-up treatment has to be performed. ...
Online encyclopedia makes life searchable
Sep 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- One hundred and fifty thousand species down, 1.65 million to go. That is the tally for the online Encyclopedia of Life, an ambitious two-year-old project with the goal of nothing less than documenting in ...
Facebook users can help Chase find small charities
Nov 18, 2009 |
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(AP) -- JPMorgan Chase is letting Facebook users help decide how to give away $5 million.
First direct information about the prion's molecular structure reported
Oct 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A collaboration between scientists at Vanderbilt University and the University of California, San Francisco has led to the first direct information about the molecular structure of prions. ...
Salazar calls for high flows into Colorado River
Dec 11, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is calling for more manmade floods to be released from the Glen Canyon Dam into the Colorado River.
Secrets of the sandcastle worm could yield a powerful medical adhesive (w/ Video)
Aug 17, 2009 |
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Scientists have copied the natural glue secreted by a tiny sea creature called the sandcastle worm in an effort to develop a long-sought medical adhesive needed to repair bones shattered in battlefield injuries, ...
India to move all zoo elephants to wildlife parks
Nov 13, 2009 |
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(AP) -- All elephants living in Indian zoos and circuses will be moved to wildlife parks and game sanctuaries where the animals can graze more freely, officials said Friday.
Using waste to recover waste uranium
Sep 07, 2009 |
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Using bacteria and inositol phosphate, a chemical analogue of a cheap waste material from plants, researchers at Birmingham University have recovered uranium from the polluted waters from uranium mines. The same technology ...
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