News tagged with physical sciences
Obama vows return to US science prominence (Update)
Apr 27, 2009 |
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President Barack Obama pledged Monday to return the United States to a "high water mark" of scientific achievement, announcing a goal to commit three percent of GDP to research and development.
Largest virtual telescope for short wavelengths opened
Nov 25, 2008 |
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Astronomers have succeeded in combining three telescopes in Hawaii using advanced computer techniques. This virtual telescope, with a diameter of 782 metres, studies the formation of new stars and planets ...
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Surgeon 'gluing' the breastbone together after open-heart surgery
Nov 12, 2009 |
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An innovative method is being used to repair the breastbone after it is intentionally broken to provide access to the heart during open-heart surgery. The technique uses a state-of-the-art adhesive that rapidly ...
New explanation for nature's hardiest life form
Nov 12, 2009 |
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Got food poisoning? The cause might be bacterial spores, en extremely hardy survival form of bacteria, a nightmare for health care and the food industry and an enigma for scientists. Spore-forming bacteria, present almost ...
Right first time: Pioneering new methods of drug manufacture
Nov 11, 2009 |
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Engineers at the University of Leeds have developed a simple technology which can be used in existing chemical reactors to ensure "right first time" drug crystal formation.
Computer scientists work to strengthen online security
Technology / Computer Sciences
Nov 09, 2009 |
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If you forget your password when logging into an e-mail or online shopping Web site, the site will likely ask you a security question: What is your mother's maiden name? Where were you born?
First Bose-Einstein condensation of strontium
Nov 09, 2009 |
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In an international first, scientists from the Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI, Austria) produced a Bose-Einstein condensate of the alkaline-earth element strontium, thus narrowly ...
Ancient muscle tissue extracted from 18 million year old fossil
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have extracted organically preserved muscle tissue from an 18 million years old salamander fossil. The discovery by researchers from University College Dublin, the UK and Spain, ...
Texas A&M prof to predict weather on Mars
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 04, 2009 |
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Is there such a thing as "weather" on Mars? There are some doubts, considering the planet's atmosphere is only 1 percent as dense as that of the Earth. Mars, however, definitely has clouds, drastically low temperatures and ...
Snows Of Kilimanjaro shrinking rapidly, and likely to be lost
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 02, 2009 |
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The remaining ice fields atop famed Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania could be gone within two decades and perhaps even sooner, based on the latest survey of the ice fields remaining on the mountain .
Researchers discover links between city walkability and air pollution exposure
Nov 02, 2009 |
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A new study compares neighborhoods' walkability (degree of ease for walking) with local levels of air pollution and finds that some neighborhoods might be good for walking, but have poor air quality. Researchers involved ...
Iranian scholars share Avicenna's medieval medical wisdom
Oct 30, 2009 |
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For pulmonary ailments, certain mediaeval physicians had a useful medical textbook on hand offering detailed information remarkably similar to those a modern doctor might use today. One of the fathers of medicine, the great ...
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