(PhysOrg.com) -- Is your heart sound? To answer that question, all assistant professor Shashi Murthy needs is a single drop of your blood.

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Jun 22, 2009 4 / 5 (1) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two NASA spacecraft will reach major mission milestones early Tuesday morning as they approach the moon -- one will send back live streaming imagery via the Internet as it swings by the moon, ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Jun 22, 2009 4.2 / 5 (5) 0

Drosophila larvae avoid light during the foraging stage of their development. Research published in the open access journal BMC Neuroscience shows that both 5-HT (serotonergic) and corazonergic neurons have a role in reg ...

Medicine & Health - Neuroscience

Jun 22, 2009 not rated yet 0

Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston have isolated a potent inhibitor of tumor metastasis made by tumor cells, one that could potentially be harnessed as a cancer treatment. Their findings were published in the online ...

Medicine & Health - Cancer

Jun 22, 2009 4.8 / 5 (4) 0

Hewlett Packard unveiled a printer on Monday with a built-in Web connection that allows printing directly from the Internet without a personal computer.

Electronics - Consumer & Gadgets

Jun 22, 2009 1 / 5 (2) 0

(AP) -- Far below the Black Hills of South Dakota, crews are building the world's deepest underground science lab at a depth equivalent to more than six Empire State buildings - a place uniquely suited to ...

Physics - General Physics

Jun 22, 2009 4.5 / 5 (14) 11

Since the times of Adam Smith, economists have had the intuition that prosperity emerges from the division of labor, that is, from the interaction of thousands of individual activities. This idea has been present for a long ...

Other Sciences - Economics & Business

Jun 22, 2009 4.8 / 5 (4) 0

(AP) -- A strong earthquake jolted a swath of southern Alaska on Monday, sending people diving under desks and huddling in doorways but causing little damage.

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Jun 22, 2009 1 / 5 (1) 1

Belgian scientists have successfully introduced genes coding for a variant of the Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease, into fruit flies. CMT is one of the most common hereditary disorders of the peripheral nervous system. VIB ...

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Jun 22, 2009 4 / 5 (1) 0

Some of the substances that are helping to avert the destruction of the ozone layer could increasingly contribute to climate warming, according to scientists from NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory and their colleagues ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Jun 22, 2009 3.8 / 5 (25) 23

What do high bankruptcy rates in states like Tennessee and Utah tell us about the people that live in those places? Not much, according to a new 50-state bankruptcy study published in the latest issue of the Journal of La ...

Other Sciences - Economics & Business

Jun 22, 2009 5 / 5 (1) 0

thoughts that people may be unwilling to express or may not even know that they have - may have a powerful effect on gender equity in science and mathematics engagement and performance, according to a new study published ...

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

Jun 22, 2009 2.5 / 5 (4) 0

Total knee replacement (arthroplasty) appears to be a cost-effective procedure for older adults with advanced osteoarthritis, according to a report in the June 22 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/A ...

Medicine & Health - Other

Jun 22, 2009 4 / 5 (2) 1

A fundamental question about how sugar units are strung together into long carbohydrate chains has also pinpointed a promising way to target new medicines against tuberculosis.

Medicine & Health - Medical research

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Nickel, an important trace nutrient for the single cell organisms that produce methane, may be a useful isotopic marker to pinpoint the past origins of these methanogenic microbes, according to Penn State and University of ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Jun 22, 2009 5 / 5 (2) 0