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Spitzer Catches Star Cooking Up Comet Crystals

Spitzer Catches Star Cooking Up Comet Crystals (w/Animation)

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 13, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 10

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have long wondered how tiny silicate crystals, which need sizzling high temperatures to form, have found their way into frozen comets, born in the deep freeze of the solar system's ...


Scientists find cause of cartilage degeneration in osteoarthritis

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 1

The scientists describe their work in this week's Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In the study, the team shows how the loss of the protein HMGB2, found in the surface layer of joint ...





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Making bacteria make useful proteins

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

By adapting a single protein on the surface of the bacterium Caulobacter crescentus, researchers at the University of British Columbia have turned it into a protein production factory, making useful proteins that can act as ...


What determines the size of giant dunes?

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Physicists at the Laboratory of Physics and Mechanics of Heterogeneous Media (CNRS / Université Paris Diderot / ESPCI ParisTech / Université Pierre et Marie Curie) have shown, in collaboration with scientists ...


No small measure: Origins of nanorod diameter discovered

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study answers a key question at the very heart of nanotechnology: Why are nanorods so small?


Proteins in gel

Proteins in gel

Chemistry / Polymers

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Biochips carrying thousands of DNA fragments are widely used for examining genetic material. Experts would also like to have biochips on which proteins are anchored. This requires a gel layer which can now ...


Ice Gets Bent Out of Shape

Ice Gets Bent Out of Shape

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

For the first time, scientists have built completely flat, two-layer ice. While theoreticians have predicted that such ices are formed by squeezing water molecules between two surfaces, scientists at Pacific ...


Self-healing surfaces

Self-healing surfaces

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The engineers' dream of self-healing surfaces has taken another step towards becoming reality -- researchers have produced a electroplated layer that contains tiny nanometer-sized capsules. If the layer is ...


Researchers grow nanowire crystals for 3-D microchips

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stanford researchers have developed a method of stacking and purifying crystal layers that may pave the way for three-dimensional microchips.


Scientists unlock the secrets of C. difficile's protective shell

Scientists unlock the secrets of C. difficile's protective shell

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 27, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The detailed structure of a protective 'jacket' that surrounds cells of the Clostridium difficile superbug, and which helps the dangerous pathogen stick to human host cells and tissues, is revealed in par ...


Growing Population Warming East African Nights?

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Nights are getting hotter in Nairobi and other inland cities as growing populations change sensitive local weather patterns, according to research at The University of Alabama in Huntsville.


New staging technique might save bladders in some bladder cancer patients

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Pathologists today reported encouraging results from a new technique to increase the accuracy of staging bladder cancer tumors that could reduce the need to remove bladders from some patients.



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