Archive: 10/04/2006
'Protecting virus' offers instant flu protection and converts flu infections into their own vaccines
Research led by Professor Nigel Dimmock at the University of Warwick is developing an entirely new method of protecting against flu. This has been shown to protect animals against various strains of flu, and ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 04, 2006 |
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Award winning research offers hope for back pain sufferers
A University of Manchester engineering student has scooped a top industry prize for research that could bring relief to thousands of back pain sufferers.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 04, 2006 |
4.3 / 5 (3) |
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Method could help carbon nanotubes become commercially viable
Carbon nanotubes are intriguing new materials which have been highly touted for their exceptional mechanical, thermal, optical and electrical properties.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 04, 2006 |
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Arctic sea ice declines again in 2006, researchers say
While cool August temperatures prevented sea ice in the Arctic from reaching its lowest summer extent on record, 2006 continued a pattern of sharp annual decreases due to rising temperatures probably caused ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 04, 2006 |
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ESA's Planck satellite builds on Nobel-prize-winning science
The 2006 Nobel Prize for physics has been awarded to Americans John C. Mather and George F. Smoot for their work on NASA's 1989 Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite. In 2008, ESA's Planck satellite will ...
Oct 04, 2006 |
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Supernova radioisotopes show sun was born in star cluster
The death of a massive nearby star billions of years ago offers evidence the sun was born in a star cluster, say astronomers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Rather than being an only child, the sun could ...
Oct 04, 2006 |
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Increasing the odds of the sweep
Using ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have confirmed the extrasolar planet status of two of the 16 candidates discovered by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. One of the two confirmed exoplanets has ...
Oct 04, 2006 |
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Phase diagram of water revised
Supercomputer simulations by two Sandia researchers have significantly altered the theoretical diagram universally used by scientists to understand the characteristics of water at extreme temperatures and pressures.
Oct 04, 2006 |
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US scientist Roger Kornberg wins Nobel, 47 years after his father
Roger Kornberg of the United States has won the Nobel Chemistry Prize for work on a key process of life called genetic transcription, building on Nobel prizewinning discoveries by his own father.
Oct 04, 2006 |
3.4 / 5 (13) |
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Professor uses math model to predict Yanks and Twins to advance to league championship
The New York Yankees have better than a 3 in 4 chance of defeating the Detroit Tigers in their best of 5 series beginning tonight, said Bruce Bukiet, PhD, associate professor in the department of mathematical sciences at ...
Oct 04, 2006 |
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