Archive: 09/12/2007
Trade-offs reveal no clear favorites in alternative energy market
The nuclear power industry is riding the green wave back into public favor with its promise of a low-carbon solution to our growing energy needs. But even as the industry struggles to dictate what role nuclear can realistically ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Sep 12, 2007 |
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WFU professor designs atomic emission detector
Brad Jones, a professor of chemistry at Wake Forest University, is leading a team of researchers at four institutions to develop the first handheld, field instrument capable of detecting and identifying radioactive ...
Sep 12, 2007 |
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China's eye on the Internet
The "Great Firewall of China," used by the government of the People's Republic of China to block users from reaching content it finds objectionable, is actually a "panopticon" that encourages self-censorship through the perception ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 12, 2007 |
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Cancer stem cell subpopulation drives metastasis of human pancreatic cancer
Scientists have identified a distinct subpopulation of cancer stem cells (CSCs) that is responsible for metastasis of a deadly human pancreatic cancer. The research, published by Cell Press in the September issue of the journal ...
Sep 12, 2007 |
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Unique role for blood formation gene identified
All blood cell production in adults depends on the steady work of a vital gene that if lost results in early bone marrow failure, Dartmouth Medical School cancer geneticists have found. Their research reveals an unexpected ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Sep 12, 2007 |
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Dark, but Light: Smallest Galaxies Ever Seen Solve a Big Problem
Mauna Kea scientists may have solved a discrepancy between the number of extremely small, faint galaxies predicted to exist near the Milky Way and the number actually observed. In an attempt to resolve the “Missing Dwarf ...
Sep 12, 2007 |
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