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Integral satellite disproves dark matter origin for mystery radiation

Integral satellite disproves dark matter origin for mystery radiation

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 15

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers working with data from ESA’s Integral gamma-ray observatory has disproved theories that some form of dark matter explains mysterious radiation in the Milky Way.


Young stellar objects: The source of gas emission around Herbig Ae/Be stars

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 10, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

This week, Astronomy & Astrophysics is publishing new observations with AMBER/VLTI of the gas component in the vicinity of young stars. An international team of astronomers led by E. Tatulli (Grenoble, France) and S. Kra ...





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Robot fish could monitor water quality

Robot fish could monitor water quality

Electronics / Robotics

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Nature inspires technology for an engineer and an ecologist teamed up at Michigan State University. They're developing robots that use advanced materials to swim like fish to probe underwater environments.


Researchers develop innovative imaging system to study sudden cardiac arrest

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A research team at Vanderbilt University has developed an innovative optical system to simultaneously image electrical activity and metabolic properties in the same region of a heart, to study the complex mechanisms that ...


New celestial map gives directions for GPS

New Celestial Map Gives Directions for GPS

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Many of us have been rescued from unfamiliar territory by directions from a Global Positioning System (GPS) navigator. GPS satellites send signals to a receiver in your GPS navigator, which ...


North Carolina Sea Levels Rising Three Times Faster Than in Previous 500 Years, Study Says

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (10) | comments 1

PHILADELPHIA -- An international team of environmental scientists led by the University of Pennsylvania has shown that sea-level rise, at least in North Carolina, is accelerating. Researchers found 20th-century sea-level ...


Concurrent imaging of metabolic and electric signals in the heart

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cardiac rhythm disorders can result from disturbances in cardiac metabolism. These metabolic changes are tightly linked with specific cardiac electrophysiology (CEP) abnormalities, such as depressed excitability, impaired ...


Finding the seat of language?

Finding the seat of language? Researchers look into Broca's brain

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Harvard and University of California, San Diego, researchers report having pinpointed an area of the brain where three essential components of language -- word identification, grammar, ...


Seeing Previously Invisible Molecules for the First Time

Seeing Previously Invisible Molecules for the First Time

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Harvard chemists led by X. Sunney Xie has developed a new microscopic technique for seeing, in color, molecules with undetectable fluorescence. The room-temperature technique allows ...


More efficient solar power with space technology

More efficient solar power with space technology

Technology / Energy

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new system from an Italian company uses weather satellite data to estimate the potential of solar cell power plants and monitor their performance. The approach helps to give a faster return ...


Rare procedure documents how the human brain computes language

Researchers document how brain computes language

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (19) | comments 1

A study by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine reports a significant breakthrough in explaining gaps in scientists' understanding of human brain function. The study - ...


Earth from Space: Typhoon Melor

Earth from Space: Typhoon Melor

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- This Envisat image captures Typhoon Melor spinning in the Pacific Ocean northeast of the Philippines on 6 October before slamming into the main Japanese island of Honshu on Thursday.



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