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Report says dietary supplements for horses, dogs and cats need better regulation

Biology /

created Aug 21, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

The growing use of animal dietary supplements has raised several concerns, including the safety of specific supplements and the approaches taken to determine their safeness. A new National Research Council report, requested ...





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Sandia joins forces with Boeing, Caltrans, others on fuel cell-powered mobile lighting application

Developing fuel cell-powered mobile lighting application

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sandia National Laboratories, with help from The Boeing Company, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), and others, is leading an effort to develop a commercially viable, fuel cell-powered ...


Plasma power: Turning fusion into a renewable energy source

Plasma power: Turning fusion into a renewable energy source

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 9

Fusion is best known for powering the sun and stars. But researchers have long been studying ways to transform that power source into future "green" energy that can be used on Earth. A team of researchers ...


Safer, denser acetylene storage in an organic framework

Safer, Denser Acetylene Storage in an Organic Framework

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- The century-old challenge of transporting acetylene may have been solved in principle by a team of scientists working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. A NIST research ...


Scientists develop first fully automated pipeline for multiprotein complex production

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Most cellular processes are carried out by molecular machines that consist of many interacting proteins. These protein complexes lie at the heart of life science research, but they are notoriously hard to study. Their abundance ...


Particle oddball surprises physicists

Particle oddball surprises physicists

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 18, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists of the CDF experiment at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced yesterday that they have found evidence of an unexpected particle whose curious ...


Oh, my aching back: Give me a shot of ozone

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

A minimally invasive interventional radiology treatment—that safely and effectively uses oxygen/ozone to relieve the pain of herniated disks—will become standard in the United States in the next few years, predict researchers ...


Relationships in rank and file: Better sequence searches of genes and proteins

Biology /

created Feb 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Since the sequencing of the human genome eight years ago, enormous progress has been made in analyzing and understanding it. Nevertheless, the function of most human genes is still barely understood. An important first step ...


Plugging in Molecular Wires

Chemistry /

created Feb 11, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Plants, algae, and cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) are masters of everything to do with solar energy because they are able to almost completely transform captured sunlight into chemical energy. This is in ...


Tomography with the Compact Light Source

A miniature synchrotron for your home lab

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 07, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

In 2004 Lyncean Technologies announced the construction of the Compact Light Source (CLS), a miniature synchrotron which uses inverse Compton scattering to produce high-intensity, tunable, near-monochromatic ...


Molecules in the spotlight

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created Dec 12, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A novel x-ray technique allowing the observation of molecular motion on a time scale never reached before has been developed by a team of researchers from EPFL and the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland. Results ...



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