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Nanoscopic changes to pancreatic cells reveal cancer

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

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

New structure could produce efficient semiconductor laser sources

Physics / General Physics

created 2 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(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

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

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

Yellowstone's plumbing exposed

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created 13 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (24) | comments 12

(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

created 14 hours ago | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 3

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

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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

Computing with a wave of the hand (w/ Video)

Technology / Hi Tech

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (13) | comments 7

(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

A New View of Coronal Waves

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(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 (AP)

Gov't misconduct may unravel Broadcom fraud case

Technology / Business

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(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.


Wind turbines off the coast of Spain

Clean energy to grow into 1.6 trillion euros industry: WWF

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (8) | comments 1

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

Other Sciences / Economics

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

(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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