News tagged with outer shell

Australia: No higher risk from French implants

(AP) -- Australian health officials said they have found no evidence that potentially faulty French-made breast implants are at an increased risk of rupture in Australian women.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Newly discovered antibody recognizes many strains of flu virus

Some vaccines are once-in-a-lifetime; others need a booster shot or two to maintain their potency. And then there's the flu vaccine, which only lasts a year. Strains of influenza virus change so much from year-to-year that ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers develop new test method to measure stored heat in firefighter suits

For decades, researchers have evaluated the thermal performance of protective clothing worn by firefighters. A particular area of current interest is how to address the burns received by firefighters when they are not directly ...

Technology / Engineering

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Engineers find inspiration for new materials in Piranha-proof armor

(PhysOrg.com) -- It’s a matchup worthy of a late-night cable movie: put a school of starving piranha and a 300-pound fish together, and who comes out the winner?

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

As strong as an insect's shell

Harvard researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have come up with a tough, low-cost, biodegradable material inspired by insects’ hard outer shells. The material’s ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0

The Helix Nebula in new colors

(PhysOrg.com) -- ESO's VISTA telescope, at the Paranal Observatory in Chile, has captured a striking new image of the Helix Nebula. This picture, taken in infrared light, reveals strands of cold nebular gas ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The next big step toward atom-specific dynamical chemistry

(PhysOrg.com) -- For Ali Belkacem of Berkeley Lab’s Chemical Sciences Division, “What is chemistry?” is not a rhetorical question.

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

First trial of a new hepatitis C vaccine shows promise

(Medical Xpress) -- A new vaccine against the chronic liver disease hepatitis C has shown promising results in a first clinical trial in humans, Oxford University researchers report.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Survey finds 'faceless and brainless fish' in Scottish waters

A series of 15 marine surveys in 2011, covering over 2,000 square miles, have uncovered rare species and furthered our knowledge of the biodiversity of Scotland's seas.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 10

Echoes from Eta Carinae's great eruption

During the mid 1800's, the well known star η Carinae underwent an enormous eruption becoming for a time, the second brightest star in the sky. Although astronomers at the time did not yet have the technology ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 29, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Beautiful, but deadly to salmonella

(PhysOrg.com) -- A virus that was first found in sewers and shares its name – P22 – with a semi-automatic handgun might seem an unlikely object of beauty.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Stars: How big is big?

You may have seen one of these astronomical scale picture sequences, where you go from the Earth to Jupiter to the Sun, then the Sun to Sirius – and all the way up to the biggest star we know of VY Canis ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Spandex manufacturer makes elastic electrical cable (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Japanese company Asahi Kasei Fibers, which manufactures spandex and other textiles, has applied its knowledge of stretchable materials to make stretchable elastic power and USB cables.

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 17 | with audio podcast weblog


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