News tagged with physical mechanism


Simulations help explain fast water transport in nanotubes

Simulations help explain fast water transport in nanotubes

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 16, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- By discovering the physical mechanism behind the rapid transport of water in carbon nanotubes, scientists at the University of Illinois have moved a step closer to ultra-efficient, next-generation ...





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Growth in German children

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jun 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

German children are taller than 30 years ago, but the increase in height observed during the last century has become slower.


Physically active have reduced risk of prostate cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Lifetime physically active men have a lower risk of developing prostate cancer, according to a new study from Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. The effect was observable in those who had been sitting for less ...


Older adults concern for personal health linked to walking difficulty

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Older adults who worry about their health engage in less physical activity, and those who participate in less activity are more likely to report having difficulty walking, according to a new study.


Scientists discover new chemical reaction for DNA production in bacteria and viruses

DNA biosynthesis discovery could lead to better antibiotics

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 16, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Combating several human pathogens, including some biological warfare agents, may one day become a bit easier thanks to research reported by a University of Iowa chemist and his colleagues in the April 16 issue ...


Exercise and rest reduce cancer risk

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 17, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Exercise is good for more than just your waistline. A recent study presented at the American Association for Cancer Research's Seventh Annual International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research suggests that ...


Researchers shed light on the brain mechanism responsible for processing of speech

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Aug 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have succeeded for the first time in devising a model that describes and identifies a basic cellular mechanism that enables networks of neurons to efficiently decode speech ...


Active older adults live longer, have better functional status

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Older adults who continue or begin to do any amount of exercise appear to live longer and have a lower risk of disability, according to a report in the September 14 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/A ...


Scientists pinpoint mechanism to increase magnetic response of ferromagnetic semiconductor

Scientists pinpoint mechanism to increase magnetic response of ferromagnetic semiconductor

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 25, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- When squeezed, electrons increase their ability to move around. In compounds such as semiconductors and electrical insulators, such squeezing can dramatically change the electrical- and magnetic- ...


Pulling together increases your pain threshold

Pulling together increases your pain threshold

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A study of Oxford rowers shows that members of a team who exercise together are able to tolerate twice as much pain as when they train on their own.


UCSB study finds physical strength, fighting ability revealed in human faces

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 22, 2008 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (19) | comments 2

For our ancestors, misjudging the physical strength of a would-be opponent might have resulted in painful –– and potentially deadly –– defeat.



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