News tagged with open clusters
Blue stragglers: Astronomers discover how mysterious stars stay so young
(PhysOrg.com) -- Mysterious "blue stragglers" are old stars that appear younger than they should be: they burn hot and blue. Several theories have attempted to explain why they don't show their age, but, until ...
Oct 19, 2011 |
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Arrowing in on Alzheimer's disease
Recently the number of genes known to be associated with Alzheimer's disease has increased from four to eight, including the MS4A gene cluster on chromosome 11. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal ...
May 30, 2011 |
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Fewer Faults for Faster Computing
(PhysOrg.com) -- Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) users have designed and implemented an efficient fault-tolerant version of the coupled cluster method for high-performance computational ...
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Mar 28, 2011 |
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Stellar family portrait takes imaging technique to new extremes
Noted for harbouring Eta Carinae -- one of the wildest and most massive stars in our galaxy -- the impressive Carina Nebula also houses a handful of massive clusters of young stars. The youngest of these stellar ...
Dec 03, 2009 |
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Jurassic salamanders with stomach contents found from Inner Mongolia
Paleontologists from Chinese Academy of Sciences reported two Jurassic salamanders with stomach contents from Daohugou, Ningcheng County, Inner Mongolia, China, as reported in Chinese Science Bulletin online ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 06, 2012 |
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Self-assembling nanorods: Researchers obtain 1-, 2- and 3-D nanorod arrays and networks
(PhysOrg.com) -- A relatively fast, easy and inexpensive technique for inducing nanorods - rod-shaped semiconductor nanocrystals - to self-assemble into one-, two- and even three-dimensional macroscopic structures ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Feb 01, 2012 |
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Researchers suggest a proximate cause of cancer
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from The University of Texas at Austin’s Department of Chemical Engineering are the first to show that mechanical property changes in cells may be responsible for cancer progression ...
Jan 26, 2012 |
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Waiting for Death Valley's Big Bang: A volcanic explosion crater may have future potential
In California's Death Valley, death is looking just a bit closer. Geologists have determined that the half-mile-wide Ubehebe Crater, formed by a prehistoric volcanic explosion, was created far more recently ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 23, 2012 |
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Scientists replicate key evolutionary step in life on earth
(PhysOrg.com) -- More than 500 million years ago, single-celled organisms on Earth's surface began forming multi-cellular clusters that ultimately became plants and animals.
Jan 16, 2012 |
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Iconic telescope renamed to honor founder of radio astronomy
(PhysOrg.com) -- The world's most famous radio telescope will become the "Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array" to honor the founder of radio astronomy, the study of the Universe via radio waves naturally emitted ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 11, 2012 |
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Hubble breaks new ground with discovery of distant exploding star
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has looked deep into the distant universe and detected the feeble glow of a star that exploded more than 9 billion years ago. The sighting is the first finding of an ambitious ...
Jan 11, 2012 |
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Researchers discover one of the most porous materials to date
The delivery of pharmaceuticals into the human body or the storage of voluminous quantities of gas molecules could now be better controlled, thanks to a study by University of Pittsburgh researchers. In a paper published ...
Jan 04, 2012 |
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Researchers discover protein that may represent new target for treating type 1 diabetes
Researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center's Institute for Regenerative Medicine and colleagues have discovered a new protein that may play a critical role in how the human body regulates blood sugar levels. Reporting ...
Jan 04, 2012 |
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'Lost world' discovered around Antarctic vents
Communities of species previously unknown to science have been discovered on the seafloor near Antarctica, clustered in the hot, dark environment surrounding hydrothermal vents.
Jan 03, 2012 |
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