The best map of wind speeds on Jupiter ever produced proves that the massive weather system known as the Great Red Spot has shrunken over the past dozen years.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Nov 19, 2008 3.5 / 5 (21) 6

Rice University scientists on the hunt for a better way to clean up the stubborn pollutant TCE have created a method that lets them watch molecules break down on the surface of a catalyst as individual chemical bonds are ...

Chemistry -

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Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have gained new insights into regulation of one of the body's enzyme workhorses called calpains.

Medicine & Health - Medical research

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Plants that range northward because of climate change may be better at defending themselves against local enemies than native plants.

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Kanguru Solutions announced today the release of their first e-Flash drive. Utilizing eSATA (External Serial ATA) technology allows the Kanguru e-Flash to achieve performance speeds never ...

Electronics - Consumer & Gadgets

Nov 19, 2008 4.3 / 5 (20) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Employers hoping to get the best out of employees with huge performance contingent payments may actually be helping them to do worse, suggests a new paper published by a team of researchers in behavioral ...

Other Sciences - Other

Nov 19, 2008 4 / 5 (8) 1

NASA astronauts on space shuttle Endeavour's STS-126 mission will install an instrument on the International Space Station that can "smell" dangerous chemicals in the air. Designed to help protect crew members' health and ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Nov 19, 2008 5 / 5 (2) 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists announced Wednesday the discovery of a previously unidentified nearby source of high-energy cosmic rays. The finding was made with a NASA-funded balloon-borne instrument high over ...

Physics - General Physics

Nov 19, 2008 4.3 / 5 (44) 11

(PhysOrg.com) -- Multiple high-definition videos and other data-rich services may soon stream through homes, offices, ships and planes via new hybrid optical/ultra-wideband-radio systems developed by European ...

Technology - Engineering

Nov 19, 2008 4.6 / 5 (15) 0

It is extremely unusual for a student to have their work accepted for publication in a prestigious scientific journal. However, Felix Marx, a fourth year student in the Department of Earth Sciences at the ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Nov 19, 2008 4.3 / 5 (9) 1

A review of previously published studies suggests that rates of adverse outcomes for mothers or pregnant women and newborn babies, such as gestational diabetes and low birth weight, may be lower after bariatric surgery compared ...

Medicine & Health - Other

Nov 19, 2008 5 / 5 (1) 0

Programs that help low-income and minority individuals and families purchase a home may be doing more harm than good, according to a Kansas State University economist.

Other Sciences - Other

Nov 19, 2008 3 / 5 (2) 0

Computational neuroscientists at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a computational model that provides insight into the function of the brain's visual cortex and the information processing that enables people to perceive ...

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Nov 19, 2008 4.3 / 5 (18) 0

No less than one quarter of second-generation immigrants in the Netherlands drops out of school. This is the most alarming result of a recent survey conducted among the second generation of Turkish and Moroccan descent in ...

Other Sciences - Other

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Two Dartmouth researchers call for greater scrutiny of the relationship between medical journalists and the health care industries they cover. Their study was published online today, Nov. 19, in the British Medical Journal, or BMJ ...

Medicine & Health - Other

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