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Nobel Prizes honor a record 5 women in 2009

Other Sciences / Other

created 18 hours ago | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- A record five women were among the 13 people awarded Nobel Prizes on Thursday, including a writer who depicted life behind the Iron Curtain and researchers who showed how chromosomes protect themselves from degrading.


Student self-testing earns high marks as study tool

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created 19 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

College students who pore over their notes again and again as they prep for finals could use their studying time more wisely, according to new learning research from Purdue University.


Flying dinosaur controversy resolved

Flying dinosaur controversy resolved

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created 21 hours ago | popularity 3.4 / 5 (15) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research appears to have ended a scientific debate that has vexed palaeontologists for almost 100 years.


Fermi sees brightest-ever blazar flare

Fermi sees brightest-ever blazar flare

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- A galaxy located billions of light-years away is commanding the attention of NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and astronomers around the globe. Thanks to a series of flares that began ...


New techniques make carbon-based integrated circuits more practical

New techniques make carbon-based integrated circuits more practical

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (13) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stanford engineers have built what they believe is a chip with the most advanced computing and storage elements made of carbon nanotubes to date by devising a way to root out the stubborn ...


Nerve-cell transplants help brain-damaged rats fully recover lost ability to learn

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Nerve cells transplanted into brain-damaged rats helped them to fully recover their ability to learn and remember, probably by promoting nurturing, protective growth factors, according to a new study.


Low-density lipoprotein receptor reduces damage in Alzheimer's brain

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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

The low-density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR) has received a lot of attention because of its connection with coronary heart disease and atherosclerosis, but now it appears as if it may have a beneficial influence in degenerative ...


Non-invasive technique blocks a conditioned fear in humans

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Scientists have for the first time selectively blocked a conditioned fear memory in humans with a behavioral manipulation. Participants remained free of the fear memory for at least a year. The research builds on emerging ...


Toshiba develops essential technology for spintronics-based MOS field-effect transistor

Toshiba develops essential technology for spintronics-based MOS field-effect transistor

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has developed MOSFET cell based on spin transport electronics, or spintronics, an advanced semiconductor technology that makes use of the spin and ...


Sparkly Spiders and Photonic Fish

Sparkly Spiders and Photonic Fish

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Israel and the UK have uncovered the details of how certain fish and spiders create their iridescent scales and silvery skins.



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