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Probing Question: Could your kitchen counters be radioactive?

Probing Question: Could your kitchen counters be radioactive?

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 02, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Verde Butterfly. Black Galaxy. Kashmir Gold. If you’ve remodeled your kitchen in the last decade, chances are you encountered one of the 1,600 varieties of granite imported into the United States from 64 different ...





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New tool in the fight against mosquito-borne disease: A microbial 'mosquito net'

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 24, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Earlier this year, researchers showed that they could cut the lives of disease-carrying mosquitoes in half by infecting them with a bacterium they took from fruit flies. Now, a new report in the December 24th issue of Cell, ...


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Citrus surprise: Vitamin C boosts the reprogramming of adult cells into stem cells

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 24, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (26) | comments 5

Famous for its antioxidant properties and role in tissue repair, vitamin C is touted as beneficial for illnesses ranging from the common cold to cancer and perhaps even for slowing the aging process. Now, ...


Iran to unveil new home-built satellite: report

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 24, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (9) | comments 5

Iran will unveil a new home-built satellite in February, a newspaper reported Thursday, amid Western concerns that Tehran is using its nuclear and space industries to develop atomic and ballistic weapons.


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New Yorkers beware! New cockroach hits the Big Apple

Biology / Evolution

created Dec 24, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (16) | comments 3

New Yorkers are used to fighting each other for space, but there may be a new contender in town according to a Rockefeller study that appears to have uncovered a new species of cockroach.


A novel gene found for childhood-onset asthma

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Pediatric researchers have identified a novel gene involved in childhood asthma, in one of the largest gene studies to date of the common respiratory disease. Because the gene, called DENND1B, affects cells and signaling ...


Marketing Researcher Takes on Human Decision Making Process

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study by Jesper Nielsen, a UA marketing professor and his colleague are shedding light on why people decide to avoid or gravitate to a consumer product.


Scientists map speed of climate change

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (28) | comments 28

New study finds that the average ecosystem will need to shift about a quarter mile per year to keep pace with global climate change.


The Formation of Blue Stragglers

Vampires and collisions rejuvenate stars

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 2

Stars in globular clusters are generally extremely old, with ages of 12-13 billion years. However, a small fraction of them appear to be significantly younger than the average population and, because they ...


Soil studies reveal rise in antibiotic resistance

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Antibiotic resistance in the natural environment is rising despite tighter controls over our use of antibiotics in medicine and agriculture, Newcastle University scientists have found.


Phragmites partners with microbes to plot native plants' demise

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

University of Delaware researchers have uncovered a novel means of conquest employed by the common reed, Phragmites australis, which ranks as one of the world's most invasive plants.



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