Oak Ridge National Laboratory wants its energy operations to be as advanced as its energy research.

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

Jan 23, 2009 3 / 5 (5) 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- While most Australians are taking care to shield themselves from the harsh summer heat, scientists from the CSIRO Energy Transformed Flagship are working on ways to harness the sun’s warmth ...

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

Jan 23, 2009 3.8 / 5 (6) 3

Smallpox has a nasty history throughout the world. Caused by poxviruses, smallpox is one of the few disease-causing agents against which the human body's immune system is ineffective in its defense.

Biology -

Jan 23, 2009 4.8 / 5 (8) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The C1XS X-ray camera, jointly developed by the UK's STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), has successfully detected its first X-ray signature ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Jan 23, 2009 4.6 / 5 (5) 1

Actor and pancreatic cancer patient Patrick Swayze's recent hospitalization with pneumonia as a result of his compromised immune system underscores the sensitivity of the lungs: many patients die from lung complications of ...

Medicine & Health - Medical research

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(PhysOrg.com) -- A joint team of researchers at CIC nanoGUNE (San Sebastian, Spain) and the Max Planck Institutes of Biochemistry and Plasma Physics (Munich, Germany) report the non-invasive and nanoscale ...

Nanotechnology - Nanophysics

Jan 23, 2009 4.5 / 5 (2) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- It has a beautiful, but also an unpleasant side: crystallization determines the shape of precious stones, but also causes the lime scale in washing machines. How this comes about, has been ...

Physics - Condensed Matter

Jan 23, 2009 not rated yet 0

Did a catastrophic flood of biblical proportions drown the shores of the Black Sea 9,500 years ago, wiping out early Neolithic settlements around its perimeter? A geologist with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Jan 23, 2009 4.3 / 5 (6) 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- How do thousands of fish swim together in giant schools, seemingly moving as a single body? Flocks of birds, herds of beasts, and a variety of other animals in nature seem to share this same ...

Physics - General Physics

Jan 23, 2009 4.7 / 5 (38) 11

New research from Monash University bee researcher Adrian Dyer could lead to improved artificial intelligence systems and computer programs for facial recognition.

Biology -

Jan 23, 2009 4.5 / 5 (8) 4

The rate of sudden deaths increased six-fold in the first year that California law enforcement agencies deployed the use of stun guns, according to a UCSF study. Findings also showed a two-fold increase in the rate of firearm-related ...

Medicine & Health - Other

Jan 23, 2009 4.8 / 5 (4) 0

Scientists at UCSF have discovered an abnormality in a patient's immune system that may lead to safer therapies for autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and colitis, as well as potential new ways to treat transplant ...

Medicine & Health - Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Jan 23, 2009 4.5 / 5 (2) 0

Since the introduction of the life-saving clot-busting drug tPA more than a decade ago, evidence has been accumulating that tPA (tissue-type plasminogen activator) can be a double-edged sword for a brain affected by stroke. ...

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Jan 23, 2009 not rated yet 0

If you are a mouse on the chubby side, then eating less may help you live longer.

Medicine & Health - Health

Jan 23, 2009 4 / 5 (8) 1

Fainting is the most common in-flight medical emergency. Research recently published in BioMed Central's open access journal Critical Care details the number, type and frequency of medical emergencies on board two airlin ...

Medicine & Health - Other

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