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Robotic clam digs in mudflats

Electronics / Robotics

created Nov 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

To design a lightweight anchor that can dig itself in to hold small underwater submersibles, Anette (Peko) Hosoi of MIT borrowed techniques from one of nature's best diggers -- the razor clam.


Nuclear weapons: Predicting the unthinkable

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 22, 2009 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (5) | comments 4

If a nuclear weapon were detonated in a metropolitan area, how large would the affected area be? Where should first responders first go? According to physicist Fernando Grinstein, we have some initial understanding to address ...


Gene mismatch influences success of bone marrow transplants

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Nov 22, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A commonly inherited gene deletion can increase the likelihood of immune complications following bone marrow transplantation, an international team of researchers reports in the November 22 advance online issue of Nature Ge ...


Aquatic creatures mix ocean water

Physics / General Physics

created 23 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Understanding mixing in the ocean is of fundamental importance to modeling climate change or predicting the effects of an El Niño on our weather. Modern ocean models primarily incorporate the effects of winds and tides. However, ...


Homo floresiensis

'Hobbits' are a new human species -- according to the statistical analysis of fossils

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Researchers from Stony Brook University Medical Center in New York have confirmed that Homo floresiensis is a genuine ancient human species and not a descendant of healthy humans dwarfed by disease. Using ...


When It Comes to Drug Delivery, Size Matters

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the great promises of nanotechnologies lies in its ability to create drug-containing nanoparticles decorated with targeting molecules that recognize and bind to cancer cells, providing drug delivery ...


IBM scientists create rapid disease diagnostic chip (w/ Video)

IBM scientists create rapid disease diagnostic chip (w/ Video)

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 0

IBM scientists have created a one-step point-of-care-diagnostic test, based on an innovative silicon chip, that requires less sample volume, is significantly faster, portable, easy to use, and can test for ...


New Method to Measure Snow, Soil Moisture With GPS May Benefit Meteorologists, Farmers

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A research team led by the University of Colorado at Boulder has found a clever way to use traditional GPS satellite signals to measure snow depth as well as soil and vegetation moisture, a technique expected ...


Biologists save fish after landslide

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- A gigantic landslide that buried a highway, uprooted homes and rerouted a river in Washington state's Cascade Range left hundreds of smaller victims: fish.


The Monarchs' annual migration ritual has yet to be scientifically explained

Tree-eating bugs threaten Monarch butterfly in Mexico

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 21, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The mysterious Monarch butterfly, which migrates en masse annually between Canada and Mexico, is now facing a new peril: another insect thriving in Western Mexican forests.



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