(PhysOrg.com) -- Do corporate bailouts actually work? According to a recent study, some bailouts work better than others, depending on the conditions surrounding them.

Other Sciences - Economics & Business

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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer shows what looks like a glowing jellyfish floating at the bottom of a dark, speckled sea. In reality, this critter belongs to the ...

Space & Earth - Astronomy

Nov 17, 2010 4.9 / 5 (14) 11 |

With the release of the movie "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1" on Nov. 19, the official telling of the story of the boy wizard is nearing its end. But Steven Herb, director of the Pennsylvania ...

Other Sciences - Other

Nov 17, 2010 4.3 / 5 (3) 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded a team of researchers led by Wolfgang Porod, Freimann Professor of Electrical Engineering and director of the University of Notre Dame’s ...

Technology - Engineering

Nov 17, 2010 4 / 5 (1) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Yale University researchers have discovered one of the first tantalizing clues to how frontotemporal dementia (FTD) - often mistaken for Alzheimer's disease - wreaks havoc in the brain.

Medicine & Health - Neuroscience

Nov 17, 2010 5 / 5 (2) 0

This unique, close-up view of the X-38 under the wing of NASA's B-52 mothership prior to launch of the lifting-body research vehicle was taken from the observation window of the B-52 bomber as it banked in ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Nov 17, 2010 5 / 5 (4) 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Heart tissue and stem cells spring into action to begin repairing muscle damaged in a heart attack, and researchers at Duke University School of Medicine found that a protein naturally produced in the body ...

Medicine & Health - Medical research

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Scientists are reporting a key advance toward development of a way to combat the terrible plant diseases that caused the Irish potato famine and still inflict billions of dollars of damage to crops each year around the world. ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Nov 17, 2010 4 / 5 (1) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists are helping growers adopt an environmentally friendly practice that is catching on nationwide: "rolling" their rye when they use it as a cover ...

Biology - Ecology

Nov 17, 2010 5 / 5 (2) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using nanocrystals of cellulose, the main component of pulp and paper, chemistry researchers at the University of British Columbia have created glass films that have applications for energy ...

Nanotechnology - Nanomaterials

Nov 17, 2010 4.7 / 5 (23) 0 |

For those interested in reducing their risk of death from cardiovascular disease, heart experts have some good news: regular exercise, a healthy diet and five other simple measures can cut one's near-term risk of death by ...

Medicine & Health - Health

Nov 17, 2010 4.2 / 5 (5) 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Led by Simon Fraser University physicist Jeff Sonier, scientists at TRIUMF have discovered something that they think may severely hinder the creation of room-temperature (37 degrees Celsius) superconductors.

Physics - Superconductivity

Nov 17, 2010 4.8 / 5 (22) 41 |

Scientists have identified a mysterious culprit that threatens headaches, stuffy noses, skin rash and other allergy symptoms when more than 500 million people worldwide drink wine. The discovery could help winemakers in developing ...

Chemistry - Biochemistry

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Many mental health disorders, such as autism and schizophrenia, produce changes in social behavior or interactions. The frequency and/or severity of these disorders is substantially greater in boys than girls, but the biological ...

Medicine & Health - Neuroscience

Nov 17, 2010 5 / 5 (6) 4 |

Vudu will begin routing online films to Internet-linked PlayStation 3 video game consoles in the United States in a deal announced on Wednesday with Sony Computer Entertainment America.

Technology - Business

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