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.
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December 13, 2009 | Posted by admin
An investigation by the University of Kansas’ Adrian Melott and colleagues reveals a promising new method of detecting past comet strikes upon Earth and gauging their frequency
LAWRENCE, Kan. — It’s the stuff of a Hollywood disaster epic: A comet plunges from outer space into the Earth’s atmosphere, splitting the sky with a devastating shock wave [...]
Categories: Space & Earth | Tags: adjunct associate professor, adrian melott, american geophysical union, assistant professor, atmospheric ammonia, brian thomas, central siberia, comet impacts, comet strikes, craters, CTS, disaster epic, Earth, high nitrate, hou, ice cores, impact events, nitrate levels, nitrates, part, Physics, process, research, scientists, shock wave, splitting the sky, stem, tunguska event, University, university of kansas, washburn university | No Comments »
December 11, 2009 | Posted by admin
Scientists studying how bacteria under stress collectively weigh and initiate different survival strategies say they have gained new insights into how humans make strategic decisions that affect their health, wealth and the fate of others in society.
Categories: Health & Medicine | Tags: absorption, Earth, national academy of sciences, physicists, Physics, Prisoner's Dilemma, scientists | No Comments »
December 11, 2009 | Posted by admin
Next time you spy the Big Dipper, keep in mind that there is another star, invisible to the unaided eye, contributing to this constellation. According to a new paper published in The Astrophysical Journal, one of the stars that makes the bend in the ladle’s handle, Alcor, has a smaller red dwarf companion.
Categories: Space & Earth | Tags: alcor, american museum of natural history, astrophysical journal, big dipper, california institute of technology, circling the sun, collaborative team, dwarf companion, Earth, earth orbits, four hundred years, jet propulsion laboratory, mass of the sun, nearby star, nearby stars, nearest stars, novel method, object orbits, patterns in the sky, physicists, Physics, repeatable pattern, scientists, university of cambridge | No Comments »
December 9, 2009 | Posted by admin
A specialized camera on a telescope operated by U.K. astronomers from Liverpool has made the first measurement of magnetic fields in the afterglow of a gamma-ray burst (GRB). The result is reported in the Dec.10 issue of Nature magazine by the team of Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) astronomers who built and operate the telescope [...]
Categories: Space & Earth | Tags: afterglow, Astronomers, gamma ray bursts, goddard space flight, goddard space flight center, greenbelt md, human intervention, island of la palma, la palma, less than three minutes, liverpool john moores, liverpool john moores university, liverpool telescope, ljmu, massive star, nature magazine, neutron star, neutron stars, Physics, remarkable objects, swift satellite | No Comments »
November 6, 2009 | Posted by admin
A novel method of detection of cervical cancer cells has been developed by Clarkson University Professor Igor Sokolov’s group, an affiliate of the University’s Nanoengineering and Biotechnology Laboratories Center (NABLAB).
Categories: Health & Medicine | Tags: atomic force microscopy, biotechnology laboratories, cantilever, cell surface, cell surfaces, cervical cancer, cervical cancer cells, cervical cells, clarkson university, genetic tests, group reports, nanoengineering, novel method, physical nature, physical sciences, Physics, silica, sokolov, substantial difference, team hope, techniques used in biology | No Comments »
October 31, 2009 | Posted by admin
DURHAM, N.C. — By taking advantage of the vagaries of the natural world, Duke University engineers have developed a novel approach that they believe can more efficiently harvest electricity from the motions of everyday life.
Categories: Technology & Engineering | Tags: Brian Mann, duke university, electronic devices, experimental device, harvest electricity, life energy, linear approach, linear devices, novel approach, Physics, Samuel Stanton, source of energy, vagaries, wind farms | No Comments »