News tagged with ring

Hubble scores a perfect ten

Oct 30, 2008 | 4.8 / 5 (42) | 13

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Hubble Space Telescope is back in business after a one-month breakdown with a snapshot of the fascinating galaxy pair Arp 147. Scientists made two repair attempts, and last week's effort ...

Cassini Images Ring Arcs Among Saturn's Moons

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Sep 05, 2008 | 4.7 / 5 (7) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected a faint, partial ring orbiting with one small moon of Saturn, and has confirmed the presence of another partial ring orbiting with a second moon. This ...

Cell division study resolves 50-year-old-debate, may aid cancer research

Biology /

Sep 03, 2008 | 4.5 / 5 (26) | 2

A new study at Oregon State University has finally resolved a controversy that cellular biologists have been arguing over for nearly 50 years, with findings that may aid research on everything from birth defects and genetic ...

By amplifying cell death signals, scientists make precancerous cells self-destruct

Medicine & Health / Research

Aug 15, 2008 | 4.6 / 5 (17) | 0

When a cell begins to multiply in a dangerously abnormal way, a series of death signals trigger it to self-destruct before it turns cancerous. Now, in research to appear in the August 15 issue of Genes & Development, Rockef ...

Rosella research could re-write 'ring theory'

Biology /

Jul 30, 2008 | 4 / 5 (3) | 0

New research has uncovered how different crimson rosella populations are related to each other – a discovery which has important implications for research into how climate change may affect Australia’s biodiversity.

Glia guide brain development in worms

Biology /

Jul 14, 2008 | 4 / 5 (4) | 0

Again and again, experiments confirmed it. Without glia, neurons die. So scientists who wanted to study in living animals what glia — the most abundant brain cells — do for neurons besides keep them alive ...