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'Freaks of Nature'

'Freaks' help scientist unravel nature and nurture

Biology /

created Feb 26, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 2

In 1940, a Dutch goat born without front legs learned to walk upright. So did Faith, a two-legged dog in Oklahoma. Johnny Eck, a "half-man" born without legs, grew naturally into a graceful hand-walker.


Aromatase, the Key Enzyme Needed for the Body to Make Estrogen

Scientists unravel structure of key breast cancer target enzyme

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The molecular details of Aromatase, the key enzyme required for the body to make estrogen, are no longer a mystery thanks to the structural biology work done by the Ghosh lab at the Hauptman-Woodward Medical ...





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New transparent insulating film could enable energy-efficient displays

New transparent insulating film could enable energy-efficient displays

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Johns Hopkins materials scientists have found a new use for a chemical compound that has traditionally been viewed as an electrical conductor, a substance that allows electricity to flow through it. By orienting ...


Researchers show how to divide and conquer 'social network' of cells

Researchers show how to divide and conquer 'social network' of cells

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

On Noah's Ark animals came in twos: male and female. In human bodies trillions of cells are coupled, too, and so are the molecules from which they are composed. Yet these don't come in twos, they are regrouped ...


Highlight: Capturing quasiparticles

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A physics research team from the University of St Andrews and Cornell University in the USA has managed to 'photograph' the traces left by orbiting electrons in a special oxide material, and their observations ...


Scientists witness nature's complexity unfold in self-assembling quasicrystals

Scientists witness nature's complexity unfold in self-assembling quasicrystals

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 31, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (17) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Just a few decades ago, scientists believed that all ordered matter consists of self-repeating building blocks -- atoms, ions or molecules. In this view, the ordinary solids of everyday life ...


Researchers can precisely manipulate polarization in nanostructures

Researchers can precisely manipulate polarization in nanostructures

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, working with American researchers, have succeeded in using an electrical signal to control ...


NASA Ice Satellite Maps Profound Polar Thinning

NASA Ice Satellite Maps Profound Polar Thinning

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (11) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have used NASA’s Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) to compose the most comprehensive picture of changing glaciers along the coast of the Greenland and Antarctic ...


Blueprint from the interior of a catalyst

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Irregularities in industrial catalysts can inhibit the conversion of crude oil, Utrecht University chemists have concluded. They were the first to provide a detailed blueprint of the interior of a commercially used catalyst ...


New nanotech sensor developed with medical, chemistry applications

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers at Oregon State University and other institutions have developed a new "plasmonic nanorod metamaterial" using extraordinarily tiny rods of gold that will have important applications in medical, biological and ...


A Change for the better

A Change for the better: Improving properties of enzymes

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

An international team of scientists from the Czech Republic, Germany and Japan have developed a new method for improving the properties of enzymes. The method has potential for wide application in the chemical, ...


NASA flies over Antarctica to measure icemelt

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (9) | comments 1

(AP) -- Hoping to better understand how a melting Antarctica could swamp the planet, a NASA plane outfitted with lasers and ground-penetrating radar made its first flight over the icy continent on Friday.



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