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Combating mood disorders: New approach simplifies the search for more specific drugs

Many psychiatric conditions are caused by aberrant metabolism of the neurotransmitter serotonin. Researchers in the Department of Pharmacy at LMU have now developed a new screening method, which will facilitate the search ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 30, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

ATHLETE rover steps up to long desert trek

(PhysOrg.com) -- The ATHLETE rover, currently under development at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., is in the Arizona desert this month to participate in NASA's Research and Technology Studies, ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 06, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New mathematical model aids Big Bang supercomputer research

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have made many discoveries about the origins of our 13 billion-year-old universe. But many scientific mysteries remain. What exactly happened during the Big Bang, when rapidly evolving ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 05, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (19) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Safely transporting a preterm or low birth weight infant

New guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics should eliminate one of the many stresses of bringing a preterm or low birth weight infant home from the hospital.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Scientists deploy lasers, GPS technology to improve snow measurements

- Equipped with specialized lasers and GPS technology, scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) are working with colleagues to solve a critical wintertime weather mystery: how to accurately ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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Why staying warm in winter is a bit more complicated if you're a lizard

Recent studies at the ISIS neutron source, the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s (STFC) world leading research centre, have given a new insight into the mysterious ‘anti-freeze’ capabilities ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'Dark plasmons' transmit energy

Microscopic channels of gold nanoparticles have the ability to transmit electromagnetic energy that starts as light and propagates via "dark plasmons," according to researchers at Rice University.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Donation opens new opportunities for more effective diabetes treatment

The Swedish medical university, Karolinska Institutet, has received a grant of 1.6 million Euro from the Stichting af Jochnick Foundation for research into the fundamental causes of diabetes. The grant will make it possible ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Looks like we’re still looking for earthly life forms on other planets

In late 2010, NASA set the Internet buzzing when it called a press conference to discuss an astrobiological finding that would impact the search for extraterrestrial life. Many speculated that some primitive ...

Biology / Other

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Making nature's best better to produce biofuels

If a tree falls in the forest and there are no enzymes to digest it, does it break down?

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Portable device will quickly detect pathogens

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two Cornell professors will combine their inventions to develop a handheld pathogen detector that will give health care workers in the developing world speedy results to identify in the field ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Risk-based passenger screening could make air travel safer

Anyone who has flown on a commercial airline since 2001 is well aware of increasingly strict measures at airport security checkpoints. A study by Illinois researchers demonstrates that intensive screening ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Gene mutation is linked to accumulation of fat, other lipids in liver

A team of scientists from the University of Utah and the University of California at San Francisco has discovered that the mutation of a gene encoding a ketone body transporter triggers accumulation of fat and other lipids ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Bright lights of purity: Researchers discover why pure quantum dots and nanorods shine brighter

To the lengthy list of serendipitous discoveries – gravity, penicillin, the New World – add this: Scientists with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have discovered why a promising ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast


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