It’s a technique that has previously been used for oil exploration — now researchers at The University of Nottingham have developed a new, highly sensitive, anti-doping steroid test using hydropyrolysis.
Mar 5, 2008
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Solving a long-standing biological mystery, UCLA stem cell researchers have discovered that blood stem cells, the cells that later differentiate into all the cells in the blood supply, originate and are nurtured in the placenta.
Mar 5, 2008
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A team of researchers from Canada and Japan have uncovered some remarkable results on how eastern and western cultures assess situations very differently.
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Microscopic fissures in a tiny crystal open and close—on command. Researchers led by Ahmed H. Zewail successfully used ultrafast electron microscopy (UEM) to observe nanoscopic structures at their “exercises”, as they ...
Nanophysics
Mar 5, 2008
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Scientists recently developed a new modeling approach to estimate sea ice thickness. This is the only model based entirely on historical observations.
Earth Sciences
Mar 5, 2008
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Using two ESA spacecraft, planetary scientists are watching the atmospheres of Mars and Venus being stripped away into space. The simultaneous observations by Mars Express and Venus Express give scientists the data they need ...
Space Exploration
Mar 5, 2008
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How do scientists store nothing? It may sound like the beginning of a bad joke, but the answer is causing a stir in the realm of quantum physics after two research teams, including one from the University of Calgary, have ...
General Physics
Mar 5, 2008
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Researchers now have a possible solution for the one in three adults who fail to take their medicines as prescribed by their doctors, as well as for everyone else who occasionally forgets: a sensor necklace that records the ...
Engineering
Mar 5, 2008
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Families flocked to see the latest animated hit Bee Movie, but scientists from UQ's Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) have long embraced the bee for very different reasons.
Mar 5, 2008
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Not only is our body made of individual organs, our cells themselves are made of tiny organelles, a variety of separate compartments that fulfill different tasks. Such functional, nanostructured systems would also be useful ...
Bio & Medicine
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