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Light used to map effect of neurons on one another

Light used to map effect of neurons on one another

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created 8 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Harvard University have used light and genetic trickery to trace out neurons' ability to excite or inhibit one another, literally shedding new light on the question of how neurons ...


Two common forms of cancer have been genetically mapped for the first time

Scientists crack gene code of common cancers

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created 8 hours ago | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Two common forms of cancer have been genetically mapped for the first time, British scientists announced, in a major breakthrough in understanding the diseases.


Water droplets shape graphene nanostructures

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created 12 hours ago | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

A single-atom-thick sheet of carbon, like those seen in pencil marks -- offers great potential for new types of nanoscale devices, if a good way can be found to mold the material into desired shapes.


Hubble Finds Smallest Kuiper Belt Object Ever Seen

Hubble Finds Smallest Kuiper Belt Object Ever Seen

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (16) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the smallest object ever seen in visible light in the Kuiper Belt, a vast ring of icy debris that is encircling the outer rim of the solar system ...


Fault weaknesses, the center cannot hold for some geologic faults

Fault weaknesses, the center cannot hold for some geologic faults

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Some geologic faults that appear strong and stable, slip and slide like weak faults. Now an international team of researchers has laboratory evidence showing why some faults that "should not" slip are weaker ...


Lung cancer and melanoma laid bare: First comprehensive analysis of two cancer genomes

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Research teams led by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute announce the first comprehensive analyses of cancer genomes. All cancers are caused by mutations in the DNA of cancer cells which are acquired during a person's lifetime. ...


Soap opera in the marsh: Coots foil nest invaders, reject impostors

Soap opera in the marsh: Coots foil nest invaders, reject impostors

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The American coot is a drab, seemingly unremarkable marsh bird common throughout North America. But its reproductive life is full of deception and violence.


Arctic ice

Study: Earth's polar ice sheets vulnerable to even moderate global warming

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (29) | comments 19

A new analysis of the geological record of the Earth's sea level, carried out by scientists at Princeton and Harvard universities and published in the Dec. 16 issue of Nature, employs a novel statistical approa ...


Astronomers find super-Earth using amateur, off-the-shelf technology

Astronomers Find Super-Earth Using Amateur, Off-the-Shelf Technology (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (19) | comments 10

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers announced today that they have discovered a "super-Earth" orbiting a red dwarf star 40 light-years from Earth. They found the distant planet with a small fleet of ground-based ...


Stem-cell activators switch function, repress mature cells

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In a developing animal, stem cells proliferate and differentiate to form the organs needed for life. A new study shows how a crucial step in this process happens and how a reversal of that step contributes to cancer.



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