January 18, 2010 | Posted by admin
Since the ground shook Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, on January 12 and sent the densely populated city into chaos, scientists have been harnessing every possible tool to quickly assemble a detailed picture of a region in which scientific research had already been difficult to conduct.
Categories: Space & Earth | 
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December 17, 2009 | Posted by admin
Scientists funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and NOAA have recorded the deepest erupting volcano yet discovered–West Mata Volcano–describing high-definition video of the undersea eruption as “spectacular.”
Categories: Environment | Tags: american geophysical union, biologist, carbo, carbon dioxide, chemical oceanographer, chief scientist, cold seawater, deep ocean, Discovered, Earth, Environment, environmental laboratory, erupting volcano, lava bubbles, lava flows, lavas, marine geologist, microbes, molten lava, national science foundation, noaa, ocean islands, percent, research, resing, scientists, stem, submarine volcanoes, underwater robot | No Comments »
December 14, 2009 | Posted by admin
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Radiation from CT scans done in 2007 will cause 29,000 cancers and kill nearly 15,000 Americans, researchers said on Monday.
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December 14, 2009 | Posted by admin
Washu School of Medicine researchers have shown that highly targeted radiation therapy improves survival and lessens treatment-related complications in cervical cancer patients.
Categories: Health & Medicine | Tags: barnes jewish hospital, cancer death, cancer patients, cause of cancer, central nervous system, cervical cancer, chemotherapy drug, CTS, external beam radiation, intensity modulated radiation therapy, international journal of radiation oncology biology physics, part, pelvic region, percent, Physics, postoperative treatment, radiation dose, radiation oncology, radiation therapy imrt, radioactive source, research, siteman cancer center, three dimensional shape, treatment policies | No Comments »
December 13, 2009 | Posted by admin
To break some chemical bonds you need to know a guy, who knows a guy who knows a compound. Scientists ordered just such a hit and have broken two of the toughest bonds in chemistry in the laboratory equivalent of broad daylight. The reaction yields a new chemical connection and could lead [...]
Categories: Science & Nanotechnology | Tags: ammonia nitrogen, atmospheric nitrogen, broad daylight, Busting, carbon monoxide, carbon monoxide gas, chemical bonds, chemistry in the laboratory, Christopher Cummins, Clever, compound, compounds, cornell university chemist, cummins, daunting task, dinitrogen, electrons, hafnium, laboratory equivalent, microbes, News, nitrogen atoms, nylon, Paul Chirik, percent, Rachel Ehrenberg, triple bond, University, useful products | No Comments »