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Officials break ground for the world's most advanced neutrino experiment

Officials break ground for the world's most advanced neutrino experiment

Physics / General Physics

created May 01, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 15

(PhysOrg.com) -- Construction begins this month on a cutting-edge physics laboratory in northern Minnesota, supported by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Congressman James Oberstar of Minnesota ...


Astronomers catch binary star explosion inside nebula

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 19, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (16) | comments 4

The explosion of a binary star inside a planetary nebula has been captured by a team led by UCL (University College London) researchers – an event that has not been witnessed for more than 100 years. The study, published ...





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Scientists trace shark fins to their geographic origin for first time using DNA tools

Scientists trace shark fins to their geographic origin for first time using DNA tools

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Millions of shark fins are sold at market each year to satisfy the demand for shark fin soup, a Chinese delicacy, but it has been impossible to pinpoint which sharks from which regions are most threatened ...


Ticking stellar time bomb identified

Ticking stellar time bomb identified (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- "One of the major problems in modern astrophysics is the fact that we still do not know exactly what kinds of stellar system explode as a Type Ia supernova," says Patrick Woudt, from the University ...


Rapid supernova could be new class of exploding star

Rapid supernova could be new class of exploding star

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (18) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- An unusual supernova rediscovered in seven-year-old data may be the first example of a new type of exploding star, possibly from a binary star system where helium flows from one white dwarf ...


Organic weed control options for highbush blueberry

Organic weed control options for highbush blueberry

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Research scientists at Nova Scotia Agricultural College have been working steadily to find effective organic methods to control weeds in cultivated blueberry crops. One resulting study, published in a recent ...


Hundreds of hospital patients line up for tests after possible infection

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Some of the 1,851 patients who had tests administered by a Broward General Medical Center nurse alleged to have knowingly violated infection control protocols will know within two weeks if they have contracted hepatitis or ...


Computer model shows changes in brain mechanisms for cocaine addicts

Computer model shows changes in brain mechanisms for cocaine addicts

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

About 2 million Americans currently use cocaine for its temporary side-effects of euphoria, which have contributed to making it one of the most dangerous and addictive drugs in the country. Cocaine addiction, ...


CU-Boulder Unmanned Aircraft Buzz Over Gigantic Holes in Antarctic Sea Ice

CU-Boulder Unmanned Aircraft Buzz Over Gigantic Holes in Antarctic Sea Ice

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A series of record-setting unmanned research flights are providing University of Colorado at Boulder researchers with some of the first 3-D observations of gaping holes in the Antarctic sea ice known as polynyas ...


In tiny 'Tuk,' they man climate's front line

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 07, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (9) | comments 2

(AP) -- Caught between rising seas and land melting beneath their mukluk-shod feet, the villagers of Tuktoyaktuk are doing what anyone would do on this windy Arctic coastline. They're building windmills.


Atoms don't dance the 'Bose Nova'

Atoms don't dance the 'Bose Nova'

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Hanns-Christoph Naegerl's research group at the Institute for Experimental Physics, Austria, has investigated how ultracold quantum gases behave in lower spatial dimensions. They successfully ...


NASA sees some strong thunderstorms in Bill's center as he drenches eastern Canada

NASA sees some strong thunderstorms in Bill's center as he drenches eastern Canada

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 24, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Bill is still holding onto hurricane status near Nova Scotia, and will be bringing a lot of rain and heavy surf to Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland. Today, Sunday, August 23, NASA infrared ...



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