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Adjusting acidity with impunity

Adjusting acidity with impunity

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- How do individual cells or proteins react to changing pH levels? Researchers at the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, have developed a technique ...


Racing, shooting and zapping your way to better visual skills

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Do your kids want a Wii, a PlayStation or an Xbox 360 this year? This holiday gift season is packed with popular gaming systems and adrenaline-pumping, sharpshooting games. What's a parent to do? Is there any redeeming value ...


Absorbing Hydrogen Fluoride Gas to Enhance Crystal Growth

Absorbing Hydrogen Fluoride Gas to Enhance Crystal Growth

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a method to control the buildup of hydrogen fluoride gas during the growth of precision crystals ...


NASA's WISE infrared satellite to reveal new galaxies, stars, asteroids

NASA's WISE infrared satellite to reveal new galaxies, stars, asteroids

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Data from the satellite, says principal investigator and UCLA professor Edward Wright, will help scientists answer fundamental questions about the history of our solar system, the Milky Way ...


First metallic nanoparticles resistant to extreme heat

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

A University of Pittsburgh team overcame a major hurdle plaguing the development of nanomaterials such as those that could lead to more efficient catalysts used to produce hydrogen and render car exhaust less toxic. The researchers ...


Scientists identify possible therapy target for aggressive cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found that a naturally occurring protein -- transforming growth factor beta1 (TGF-ß1) -- which normally suppresses the growth of cancer cells, causes a rebound effect after ...