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Researchers put a new spin on atomic musical chairs

Researchers put a new spin on atomic musical chairs

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Naval Research Laboratory have developed a new way to introduce magnetic impurities in a semiconductor crystal by prodding it with ...


China is set to launch its second moon orbiter next October, state media have reported

China to launch second lunar probe: state media

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

China will launch its second moon orbiter next October, state media reported Friday, as it powers ahead with a space programme that has sparked concerns abroad.


Researchers to develop probes to study cellular GPS

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

An international group of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, Goettingen Medical School in Germany and the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom have received a Human Frontiers Science Program (HFSP) grant ...


EU objects to Oracle's takeover of Sun (AP)

EU objects to Oracle's takeover of Sun

Technology / Business

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(AP) -- European antitrust regulators have formally objected to Sun Microsystems Inc.'s planned $7.4 billion sale to Oracle Corp., escalating a battle over a deal that has already been cleared in the U.S.


SMOS, Proba-2 new ESA satellites successfully lofted into orbit

SMOS, Proba-2: Two new ESA satellites successfully lofted into orbit (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The second satellite in ESA's Earth Explorer series - the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission - and the second demonstration satellite under ESA's Project for Onboard Autonomy ...


Nanoparticles Detect and Purge Metastases in Lymph Nodes

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Colonoscopy represents one of the great weapons against cancer. In one step, a physician can find precancerous lesions in the colon and then cut them out, an on-the-spot intervention that prevents cancer from developing. ...


Researchers can precisely manipulate polarization in nanostructures

Researchers can precisely manipulate polarization in nanostructures

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, working with American researchers, have succeeded in using an electrical signal to control ...


Improved Electric Propulsion Could Boost Satellite Lifetimes

Improved Electric Propulsion Could Boost Satellite Lifetimes

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have won a $6.5 million grant to develop improved components that will boost the efficiency of electric propulsion systems used to control ...


China has completed a high-resolution, three-dimensional map of the entire surface of the moon

China says completes 3D moon map

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

China has completed a high-resolution, three-dimensional map of the entire surface of the moon, in an important step towards a future lunar landing, an expert involved in the project said Tuesday.


Deep Impact and other spacecraft find clear evidence of water on moon

Deep Impact, Moon Mineralogy Mapper find clear evidence of water on moon

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (23) | comments 17

New data from the Deep Impact spacecraft and the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3), an instrument aboard India's recently ended Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, provide, for the first time, clear evidence that water exists ...


UA develops network to improve weather forecasting with $5.45 million from NSF

UA developing network to improve weather forecasting

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

An interdisciplinary team of University of Arizona researchers is building a network of soil moisture probes to improve short-term and seasonal weather forecasting.


A view of Mars from the Hubble Space Telescope

Russia delays Mars probe launch until 2012: report

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Russia will pushed back its flagship satellite mission to Mars' moon until 2011 in a move which will delay the joint launch of China's first Mars probe, space sources were cited as saying Wednesday.


A New Glance on Microscopic Images

A New Glance on Microscopic Images

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A doctoral student at the research center Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (Germany) suggests interpreting the images generated by Kelvin probe force microscopy in a new way. She recently published her ...


New method monitors early sign of oxidative stress in cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The growth of cancerous tumors is fueled, at least in part, by the buildup of free radicals -- highly reactive oxygen-containing molecules.


EU delays Oracle-Sun deal, probing database market

Technology / Business

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Oracle Corp. figured its $7.4 billion buyout for Sun Microsystems Inc. could skate through antitrust scrutiny, folding Sun into a technology powerhouse when Sun badly needs the lifeline. Both companies will have ...