An international team of astronomers led by Ohio State University has examined dark matter in the outer reaches of our galaxy in a new way.

Space & Earth -

May 30, 2007 4.5 / 5 (10) 0

Evidence for an awesome upheaval in a massive galaxy cluster was discovered in an image made by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. The origin of a bright arc of ferociously hot gas extending over two million light years ...

Space & Earth - Astronomy

May 30, 2007 4.6 / 5 (17) 0

Matthew Tyska, Ph.D., recalls being intrigued, from the first day of his postdoctoral fellowship in 1999, with a nearly 30-year-old photograph. It was an electron micrograph that showed the internal structures of an intestinal ...

Medicine & Health - Medical research

May 30, 2007 4 / 5 (2) 0

With a single approach, microbiologists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have identified dozens of clues to how human parasites may infect their hosts.

Medicine & Health - Genetics

May 30, 2007 5 / 5 (3) 0

In the United States, "aging gracefully" tends to imply that we maintain our physical beauty, remain self-sufficient and stay as active as ever. The suggestion, in other words, is that we shouldn't age at all.

Other Sciences - Other

May 30, 2007 4.2 / 5 (6) 0

When researchers from the Sharon Lawler lab, Department of Entomology, University of California, Davis, hike into the wilds to do ecological research, sometimes they feel as if they're being watched.

Other Sciences - Other

May 30, 2007 3.3 / 5 (3) 0

Scientists from the University of Massachusetts Amherst have created a synthetic polymer—a building block of plastics—that doesn’t burn, making it an attractive alternative to traditional plastics, many of which are ...

Technology - Engineering

May 30, 2007 4.2 / 5 (9) 0

Nitrogen incorporation in thin HfO2/SiO2 film systems representative of high-k gate dielectric layers in advanced metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) has been investigated by synch ...

Technology - Semiconductors

May 30, 2007 4 / 5 (2) 0

Embracing innovation is the only way for Western businesses to succeed in the global market, says Indiana University economics Professor David Audretsch, whose new book, The Entrepreneurial Society, is due for release in ...

Other Sciences - Other

May 30, 2007 4.5 / 5 (2) 0

Watching a ballet dancer or circus acrobat perform, who hasn't winced at the thought of trying to replicate the impossible flexibility on display? Emilie Mackie '07, a neuroscience major, wondered what exactly is happening ...

Medicine & Health - Other

May 30, 2007 1 / 5 (2) 0

Older people who performed a physical conditioning program developed by researchers at Yale School of Medicine were able to maintain or enhance their driving performance, potentially leading to a safer and more independent ...

Medicine & Health - Other

May 30, 2007 2 / 5 (1) 0

Recent calculations indicate that when two galaxies, and the supermassive black holes that lie at their centers, merge, these galactic 'marriages' frequently produce gravitational forces strong enough to kick the new combined ...

Space & Earth - Astronomy

May 30, 2007 3.8 / 5 (16) 0

Astronomers at the University of Maryland have made the first quantitative measurements of the spin of several supermassive black holes, information that is essential to understanding how these giant black holes develop and ...

Space & Earth - Astronomy

May 30, 2007 4.5 / 5 (16) 0

It will huff, and puff, and blow the house in — but only for research purposes. Two days before the June 1 start of the 2007 hurricane season, University of Florida wind engineers unveiled the world’s larges ...

Technology - Other

May 30, 2007 4.6 / 5 (5) 0

A newly discovered dwarf galaxy in our local group has been found to have formed in a region of space far from our own and is falling into our system for the first time in its history.

Space & Earth - Astronomy

May 30, 2007 4.4 / 5 (8) 0