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NASA Buys Additional Space Shuttle Reusable Solid Rocket Motors

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has purchased two reusable solid rocket motors from ATK Launch Systems Inc. of Brigham City, Utah, to provide a "launch on need" rescue capability for the final planned space shuttle mission, targeted ...


New Study Turns Up the Heat on Soot's Role in Himalayan Warming (w/ Video)

New Study Turns Up the Heat on Soot's Role in Himalayan Warming (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Soot from fire in an unventilated fireplace wafts into a home and settles on the surfaces of floors and furniture. But with a quick fix to the chimney flue and some dusting, it bears no impact ...


New findings show how human movement may have brought Chagas disease to urban Peru

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New research shows how the migration and settlement patterns associated with the rapid urbanization of Peru may link to Chagas disease transmission. The study, published December 15 in the open-access journal PLoS Neglected Tr ...


Researcher studying ways to handle huge quantities of biomass

Researcher studying ways to handle huge quantities of biomass

Technology / Energy

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- As scientists scramble to develop ways to generate enormous amounts of energy from cleaner-burning, renewable fuels to replace coal and oil, promising agricultural crops such as switchgrass ...


Within a cell, actin keeps things moving

Within a cell, actin keeps things moving

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Using new technology developed in his University of Oregon lab, chemist Andrew H. Marcus and his doctoral student Eric N. Senning have captured what they describe as well-orchestrated, actin-driven, ...


NASA Outlines Recent Breakthroughs in Greenhouse Gas Research

NASA Outlines Recent Breakthroughs in Greenhouse Gas Research (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers studying carbon dioxide, a leading greenhouse gas and a key driver of global climate change, now have a new tool at their disposal: daily global measurements of carbon dioxide ...


Large Hadron Collider (LHC)

Large Hadron Collider produces first physics results

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (32) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first paper on proton collisions in the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) - designed to provide the highest energy ever explored with particle accelerators - is published online this week ...


Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing is planning to invest in the island's largest producer of solar cells

Taiwan chip giant TSMC to enter solar energy

Technology / Energy

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Chip giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is planning its first foray into solar energy with an investment in the island's largest producer of solar cells, a spokesman said Thursday.


How do we understand written language?

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1

How do we know that certain combinations of letters have certain meanings? Reading and spelling are complex processes, involving several different areas of the brain, but researchers from Johns Hopkins University in the ...


People who 'see' numbers have better memories for dates

People who 'see' numbers have better memories for dates

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new research project has shown that people who perceive numbers visually, and who see sequences of numbers as visual patterns, have better memories for dates and events in the past than ...



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