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VISTA: Pioneering new survey telescope starts work

VISTA: Pioneering new survey telescope starts work

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 1

VISTA is the latest telescope to be added to ESO's Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. It is housed on the peak adjacent to the one hosting the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) and shares ...


Turning metal black more than just a novelty

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (20) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Rochester optics professor Chunlei Guo made headlines in the past couple of years when he changed the color of everyday metals by scouring their surfaces with precise, high-intensity laser bursts.





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New Video Reveals Secrets of Webb Telescope's MIRI

New Video Reveals Secrets of Webb Telescope's MIRI (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created 14 hours ago | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- It's going to take infrared eyes to see farther back in time than even the Hubble Space Telescope, and that's what the James Webb Space Telescope's MIRI or Mid-Infrared Instrument detectors ...


Tylenol Arthritis Caplet voluntary recall expanded

Medicine & Health / Other

created 16 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Johnson & Johnson is expanding a voluntary recall of Tylenol Arthritis Caplets due to consumer reports of a moldy smell that can cause nausea and sickness.


Researchers Use New Acoustic Tools to Study Marine Mammals and Fish

Researchers Use New Acoustic Tools to Study Marine Mammals and Fish

Biology / Ecology

created 17 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Over the past decade, researchers have developed a variety of reliable real-time and archival instruments to study sounds made or heard by marine mammals and fish. These new sensors are now ...


Arctic could face warmer and ice-free conditions

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created 17 hours ago | popularity 3.1 / 5 (16) | comments 11

There is increased evidence that the Arctic could face seasonally ice-free conditions and much warmer temperatures in the future.


Hearing assistance comes to the home (w/ Video)

Technology / Engineering

created 17 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have combined state-of-the-art technologies to help end the isolation suffered by the hearing impaired. End users are eager to get their hands on the suite of tools.


Blood test that provides prior blood sugar average now recommended for diabetes screening, diagnosis (w/ Video)

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created 18 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In an annual supplement to the journal Diabetes Care, published Dec. 29 by the American Diabetes Association, the A1C test is given a prominent role in the 2010 guidelines for diabetes screening, diagnosis ...


Better airport scanners delayed by privacy fears (AP)

Better airport scanners delayed by privacy fears

Technology / Hi Tech

created Dec 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 5

(AP) -- High-tech security scanners that might have prevented the Christmas Day attempt to blow up a jetliner have been installed in only a small number of airports around the world, in large part because ...


Pressure rises to stop antibiotics in agriculture (AP)

Pressure rises to stop antibiotics in agriculture

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 28, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(AP) -- The mystery started the day farmer Russ Kremer got between a jealous boar and a sow in heat.


Now hear this: Swim-proof hearing aids to get test

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 28, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- They're not your grandpa's hearing aids. Today's newest models range from the completely invisible - it sits deep in the ear canal for months at a time - to Bluetooth-enabled gadgets that open cell phones and iPods ...


BBS proteins shown to run an export business that protects cilia

BBS proteins shown to run an export business that protects cilia

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A protein complex mutated in human disease removes excess signaling molecules to prevent them from damaging cilia, say researchers from UMass Medical School. The study will be published in the December 28 ...



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