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Meningitis B type vaccine available soon

(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers in Chile have successfully tested a vaccine against meningococcus B, a strain of bacteria that causes meningococcal diseases, including one of the commonest forms of meningitis, a disease in ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Japanese company develops silver ink that requires no heat to harden

(PhysOrg.com) -- Consider for a moment, all the circuit boards that have been made, particularly those in the past few years. Most have two parts to them, not including the board itself. The first are parts ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast weblog

British team devises method for separating carbon nanotubes cheaply

(PhysOrg.com) -- When single walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) are made, they come out in both metallic and semiconducting material form. Unfortunately, different applications require one or the other of these ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

New research explains how diamond rich kimberlite makes its way to Earth's surface

(PhysOrg.com) -- Kimberlite, a type of magma that is normally found deep within the Earth’s crust is known to somehow make its way to the surface at times, and when it does, it quite often has diamonds ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 9 | with audio podcast report

Web players enlist for coordinated June 6 launch of IPv6

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Internet Society has made it official. Last June’s dress rehearsals are over; June 6 of this year is official World IPv6 Launch Day, where a new system of numerical addresses will ...

Technology / Internet

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 4 | with audio podcast report

Serial killing follows predictable pattern based on brain activity

(PhysOrg.com) -- Over a period of 12 years, Andrei Chikatilo murdered at least 53 people before being arrested in Rostov, Russia, in 1990. While Chikatilo’s killings, mainly of women and children, may ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (22) | comments 12 | with audio podcast report

British pharmacy chain announces roll-out of new smart pills loaded with microchip

(Medical Xpress) -- A new pharmaceutical program that many Britons might find literally hard to swallow, has been announced. Pharmacy chain Lloydspharmacy has partnered with American technology firm Proteus ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (13) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

Researchers identify skull of South America's oldest predator

(PhysOrg.com) -- Back in 2008, budding paleontologists, Juan Cisneros and Cesar Schultz, still college students, found a skull in a part of Brazil known as the pampas region of Rio Grande do Sul. They’d ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast report

MIT lab working on wristband to allow for individual control of local building environment

(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT Media Lab has announced that a team of researchers working in the Responsive Environments Group is hard at it trying to come up with just the right sort of wrist bracelet that could interface with a building ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast weblog

Mercedes demos DICE -- Interactive dashboard and Heads-Up display

(PhysOrg.com) -- High end car maker Mercedes-Benz last week demoed new technology it’s working on for future car dashboards and windshield displays, and the result is certainly eye opening. Called the ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 12 | with audio podcast report

Study offers clues as to why teens are more susceptible to addiction and mental illness

(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh’s Moghaddam Laboratory, led by biochemist Bita Moghaddam have found after studying rat brains that minor differences in activity levels in certain brain parts, between adults and teen ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Qualcomm's HaloIPT tech brings wireless charging for EVs

(PhysOrg.com) -- Qualcomm has demonstrated its new wireless power transmission system for electric vehicles (EVs) at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The system, including one pad for power transmitting, ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 5 | with audio podcast report

Blood test for human form of mad cow disease developed

(Medical Xpress) -- Mad cow disease is serious business in the U.K., the human form, known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob after Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt and Alfons Maria Jakob (CJD), who independently first described its existence ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

New computer model shows Titan atmosphere more Earth-like than thought

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two scientists from the French National Centre for Scientific Research in Paris have built a computer model that simulates the atmosphere on Titan, one of Saturn’s sixty two moons, and ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (12) | comments 11 | with audio podcast report

New research shows 1992 earthquake in Pakistan was due to rare horizontal shift

(PhysOrg.com) -- The media (and school teachers, of course) has done a very good job of informing most people about how earthquakes work. We can all very easily imagine two great plates rubbing against one ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report