University of Queensland Master of Science student Maren Dammann is aiming to uncover what makes a koala's wish list when it comes to choosing a place to live.

Biology - Ecology

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Tuesday's spacewalk with Expedition 18 Commander Mike Fincke and Flight Engineer Yury Lonchakov concluded at 5:11 p.m. EDT when the Pirs docking module airlock was closed. The spacewalk concluded ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Mar 10, 2009 4.5 / 5 (4) 0

Shuttle Discovery is set to launch from Kennedy Space Center at about 9:20 p.m. Wednesday, leaving only eight more scheduled missions before NASA retires the fleet in 2010 - and devastates the Space Coast ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Mar 10, 2009 not rated yet 1

A new study of proteins, the molecular machines that drive all life, also sheds light on the history of living organisms.

Biology - Biotechnology

Mar 10, 2009 4.8 / 5 (12) 1

Breast cancer patients face many horrors, including those that arise when fighting the cancer itself. Medications given during chemotherapy can have wicked side effects, including vomiting, dizziness, anemia ...

Nanotechnology - Bio & Medicine

Mar 10, 2009 5 / 5 (2) 1

For decades, distant galaxies that emitted their light six billion years ago were no more than small specks of light on the sky. With the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope in the early 1990s, astronomers ...

Space & Earth - Astronomy

Mar 10, 2009 4.7 / 5 (18) 4

The use of common and readily available screening tests—like the ankle brachial index (ABI)—along with traditional risk scoring systems—such as the Framingham Risk Score—has the potential to prevent devastating heart ...

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Mar 10, 2009 4 / 5 (2) 0

If the teacher is not capable of understanding the perspective of six year olds then the child's learning becomes unnecessarily difficult, or in some cases the child's interest in learning may not be aroused at all. This ...

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

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The historical person Jesus of Nazareth - beyond the accounts in the creeds and the Gospels, which are all characterized by religious belief - is the focus of Tobias Hägerland's dissertation from the University of Gothenburg, ...

Other Sciences - Other

Mar 10, 2009 2.6 / 5 (14) 7

Before employers have a chance to judge job applicants on their merits, they may have already judged them on the sound of their names. According to a study published in the latest issue of the Journal of Labor Economics, immigr ...

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

Mar 10, 2009 3.7 / 5 (3) 0

The PhD project presented by Gema Martínez-Méndez from the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona focuses on the Agulhas Current and the ensuing warm water ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Mar 10, 2009 4.6 / 5 (5) 0

Research presented today at the International Scientific Congress on Climate Change in Copenhagen shows that the upper range of sea level rise by 2100 could be in the range of about one meter, or possibly more. In the lower ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Mar 10, 2009 2.6 / 5 (14) 2

An unlikely brew of seaweed and glow-in-the-dark biochemical agents may hold the key to the safe use of transplanted stem cells to treat patients with severe peripheral arterial disease (PAD), according to ...

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Mar 10, 2009 5 / 5 (1) 0

An educational initiative between Rice University computer scientists and Indian educators will enable schools in rural India to be some of the first to benefit from Rice's revolutionary, low-energy computer chips.

Electronics - Hardware

Mar 10, 2009 5 / 5 (2) 0

New research from Rice University and the University of Oulu in Oulu, Finland, finds that carbon nanotubes could significantly improve the performance of electrical commutators that are common in electric ...

Nanotechnology - Nanomaterials

Mar 10, 2009 3 / 5 (2) 0