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Life in Antarctic lake? It's everywhere else

If scientists find microbes in a frigid lake two miles beneath the thick ice of Antarctica, it will illustrate once again that somehow life finds a way to survive in the strangest and harshest places.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Discovery of 'bioelectric' arteries opens path to heart disease treatment

Bionic eyes and limbs made television's six million dollar man an icon, but new research suggests our existing biological structure already exhibits a valuable electrical property. Scientists have found that ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Scientists X-ray key enzyme of common pathogen crystallized in living cells

An international team of scientists has for the first time crystallised a key enzyme of the pathogen for African sleeping sickness in a living cell and investigated it with the world’s strongest X-ray laser. This new ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Ferroelectric switching discovered for first time in soft biological tissue

The heart's inner workings are mysterious, perhaps even more so with a new finding. Engineers at the University of Washington have discovered an electrical property in arteries not seen before in mammalian ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

How the 'street pigeon' got its fancy on

Pigeons display spectacular variations in their feathers, feet, beaks and other physical traits, but a new University of Utah study shows that visible traits don't always coincide with genetics: A bird from ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New microtweezers may build tiny 'MEMS' structures

Researchers have created new "microtweezers" capable of manipulating objects to build tiny structures, print coatings to make advanced sensors, and grab and position live stem cell spheres for research.

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Fluorescent dye pinpoints tiniest signs of oesophageal cancer

(Medical Xpress) -- A fluorescent dye that can be sprayed onto the oesophagus – the food pipe – could be used to detect oesophageal cancer earlier and spare patients unnecessary treatment, according to research ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Bits of life, drop by drop

(PhysOrg.com) -- Swiss scientists are working on creating artificial living tissues using a very special kind of inkjet printer. Still in its initial stages, this technology could nonetheless soon provide ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers use sugar to halt esophageal cancer in its tracks

Scientists working at the Medical Research Council have identified changes in the patterns of sugar molecules that line pre-cancerous cells in the esophagus, a condition called Barrett's dysplasia, making it much easier to ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 15, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Choreographing dance of electrons offers promise in pursuit of quantum computers

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the basement of Hoyt Laboratory at Princeton University, Alexei Tyryshkin clicked a computer mouse and sent a burst of microwaves washing across a silicon crystal suspended in a frozen ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast


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