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Nanoscopic changes to pancreatic cells reveal cancer
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 13, 2009 |
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A team of researchers in Chicago has developed a way to examine cell biopsies and detect never-before-seen signs of early-stage pancreatic cancer, according to a new paper in the Optical Society (OSA) journal Optics Letters. Though ...
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New structure could produce efficient semiconductor laser sources
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have achieved a nanoscale laser structure they anticipate will produce semiconductor lasers in the next two years that are more than twice as efficient ...
Going vertical: Fleeing tsunamis by moving up, not out
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
5 hours ago |
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In the minutes after a strong earthquake struck offshore of the Indonesian city of Padang on Sept. 30, fears of a tsunami prompted hundreds of thousands of residents to evacuate the coastal city. Or try to.
Yellowstone's plumbing exposed
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
13 hours ago |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The most detailed seismic images yet published of the plumbing that feeds the Yellowstone supervolcano shows a plume of hot and molten rock rising at an angle from the northwest at a depth ...
Kansas scientists probe mysterious possible comet strikes on Earth
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
14 hours ago |
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It's the stuff of a Hollywood disaster epic: A comet plunges from outer space into the Earth's atmosphere, splitting the sky with a devastating shock wave that flattens forests and shakes the countryside.
Clinical trial advances new approach to re-sensitizing breast cancer
Dec 13, 2009 |
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A new drug cocktail might be the right mix to fight breast cancer after it becomes resistant to standard therapy. Details of a new study supporting this approach suggest it's possible to re-sensitize tumors thus allowing ...
Computing with a wave of the hand (w/ Video)
Dec 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The iPhone’s familiar touch screen display uses capacitive sensing, where the proximity of a finger disrupts the electrical connection between sensors in the screen. A competing approach, ...
A New View of Coronal Waves
Dec 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The corona is the hot outer region of the sun's atmosphere. The corona is threaded by magnetic fields that loop and twist upwards from the sun's surface, driven by motions of its dense atmosphere.
Gov't misconduct may unravel Broadcom fraud case
Dec 11, 2009 |
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(AP) -- When the federal government revealed it had launched a massive investigation of some of Broadcom Corp.'s top executives for backdating stock options, it sent a shock wave through the business world.
Clean energy to grow into 1.6 trillion euros industry: WWF
Dec 10, 2009 |
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The clean energy technology sector will grow into a 1.6 trillion-euro (2.4 trillion-dollar) industry by 2020, becoming the third largest industrial sector after automobiles and electronics, WWF said Friday.
Another wave of foreclosures likely in new year
Dec 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As we near the end of the year, Phoenix-area home prices have started to go up, but another wave of foreclosures is likely to hit soon. That's according to the author of the latest Realty Studies report from ...
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