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Einstein researchers develop novel antibiotics that don't trigger resistance

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is one of medicine's most vexing challenges. In a study described in Nature Chemical Biology, researchers from Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University are de ...





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Post-Racial? NC State Expert Weighs In On the Current State of Race Relations

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Many pundits professed the dawn of a “post-racial” era following the election of Barack Obama as the first African-American president.


Scientists Detect 'Fingerprint' of High-Temp Superconductivity Above Transition Temperature

Scientists Detect 'Fingerprint' of High-Temp Superconductivity Above Transition Temperature

Physics / Superconductivity

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of U.S. and Japanese scientists has shown for the first time that the spectroscopic "fingerprint" of high-temperature superconductivity remains intact well above the super chilly temperatures ...


Scientists Present 'Moving' Theory Behind Bacterial Decision-Making

Scientists Present 'Moving' Theory Behind Bacterial Decision-Making

Chemistry /

created Nov 21, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Biochemists at North Carolina State University have answered a fundamental question of how important bacterial proteins make life-and-death decisions that allow them to function, a finding ...


Scientists Extend the Lifetime of Quantum Memory

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 02, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 12

(PhysOrg.com) -- Storing and sending information using quantum phenomena is one of the hottest areas of research today; scientists across the globe are investigating how to make quantum communication possible for real-life ...


Real and virtual pendulums swing as one in mixed reality state

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 10, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (16) | comments 3

Using a virtual pendulum and its real-world counterpart, scientists at the University of Illinois have created the first mixed reality state in a physical system. Through bidirectional instantaneous coupling, each pendulum ...


Cracking a controversial solid state mystery

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 06, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (9) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists can easily explain the structural order that makes steel and aluminium out of molten metal. And they have discovered the molecular changes that take place as water turns to ice. But, despite the ...


Research reveals how science changed methods of execution

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Aug 10, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A University of Cincinnati sociologist combed through newspaper accounts of 19th and 20th century Ohio executions to understand how executions became more "professional and scientific" in character. Annulla Linders, an associate ...


Of traffic jams, beach sands and the zero-temperature jamming transition

Physics / Condensed Matter

created May 13, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers in condensed matter physics at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Chicago have created an experimental and computer model to study how jamming, the physical process in which collections of particles ...


Progress Toward New Storage Media: Switchable Nanostripes

Progress Toward New Storage Media: Switchable Nanostripes

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 24, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (23) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In this information age, increased storage capacity is a central challenge for science and technology. A team of German and Italian researchers has pursued this by exploring the concept of ...


Heart protein regulates blood vessel maintenance

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers identify a protein that regulates the physical state of blood vessels. The biochemical processes involved in this regulation are important in the study of cardiovascular health.



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