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Peptides control crystal growth with 'switches, throttles and brakes'

Peptides control crystal growth with 'switches, throttles and brakes'

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created 13 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- By producing some of the highest resolution images of peptides attaching to mineral surfaces, scientists have a deeper understanding how biomolecules manipulate the growth crystals. This research ...


Cassini Sends Back Images of Enceladus as Winter Nears

Cassini Sends Back Images of Enceladus as Winter Nears

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created 10 hours ago | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft has sailed seamlessly through the Nov. 21 flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus and started transmitting uncalibrated temperature data and images of the rippling terrain. ...


New computer-developed map shows more extensive valley network on Mars

New computer-developed map shows more extensive valley network on Mars

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created 12 hours ago | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

New research adds to the growing body of evidence suggesting the Red Planet once had an ocean.


Tissue tension regulates tumor progression

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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(PhysOrg.com) -- UCSF scientists have shown for the first time that the rigidity of a tissue can induce cancer. The research team identified an enzyme that is crucial for regulating tissue stiffness and demonstrated that ...


Intensive land management leaves Europe without carbon sinks

Intensive land management leaves Europe without carbon sinks

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created 16 hours ago | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

A new calculation of Europe's greenhouse gas balance shows that emissions of methane and nitrous oxide tip the balance and eliminate Europe's terrestrial sink of greenhouse gases.


Scientist: Leak of climate e-mails appalling

Space & Earth / Environment

created 17 hours ago | popularity 3.2 / 5 (10) | comments 8

(AP) -- A leading climate change scientist whose private e-mails are included in thousands of documents that were stolen by hackers and posted online said Sunday the leaks may have been aimed at undermining next month's ...


Stable plaque or heart attack plaque? USC researcher builds new sensor to tell which is which

Stable plaque or heart attack plaque? Researcher builds new MEMS sensor to tell which is which

Medicine & Health / Research

created 15 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

University of Sourthern California biomedical engineer and cardiologist Tzung "John" Hsiai hopes to develop a new tool to help clinicians distinguish cardiac emergencies requiring immediate surgery from chronic ...


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Research reveals exactly how coughing is triggered by environmental irritants

Medicine & Health / Research

created 16 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have revealed how environmental irritants such as air pollution and cigarette smoke cause people to cough, in research published today in the American Journal of Respiratory an ...


The cause behind the characteristic shape of a long leaf revealed

The cause behind the characteristic shape of a long leaf revealed

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created 13 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Applied mathematicians dissected the morphology of the plantain lily (Hosta lancifolia), a characteristic long leaf with a saddle-like arc midsection and closely packed ripples along the edges. The simple ...


Multitasking may be Achilles heel for hepatitis C

Medicine & Health / Research

created 9 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Hepatitis C, a formidable virus that affects 130 million people worldwide, is nursing some pretty impressive bruises. By knocking out sections and subsections of one of its proteins, scientists reveal weak ...



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