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Japan scientists hope slime holds intelligence key

A brainless, primeval organism able to navigate a maze might help Japanese scientists devise the ideal transport network design. Not bad for a mono-cellular being that lives on rotting leaves.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (14) | comments 5

Google TV may be on the way

(PhysOrg.com) -- Google is planning to launch Google TV later this month according to news reports, with the Google I/O conference on 19-20 May tipped to be the most likely date for the big announcement. There ...

Technology / Internet

created May 03, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 8 | with audio podcast report

Aiming to cure deafness, Stanford scientists first to create functional inner-ear cells

Deep inside the ear, specialized cells called hair cells detect vibrations in the air and translate them into sound. Ten years ago, Stefan Heller, PhD, professor of otolaryngology at the Stanford University ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created May 13, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Stanford researchers first to turn normal cells into 3-D cancers in tissue culture dishes

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have successfully transformed normal human tissue into three-dimensional cancers in a tissue culture dish for the first time. Watching how the cells behave as they ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 21, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Giant telescope to survey galaxies from Mexican volcano

A giant telescope, 50 meters (164 feet) across, will this year start unraveling mysteries of the birth and death of galaxies up to 14,000 light years away, from atop a Mexican volcano.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 09, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 7

New discovery may eliminate potentially lethal side effect of stem cell therapy

Like fine chefs, scientists are seemingly approaching a day when they will be able to make nearly any type of tissue from human embryonic stem cells. You need nerves or pancreas, bone or skin? With the right combination of ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Aug 14, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A new paper made of graphene and protein fibrils

(Phys.org) -- Researchers led by Raffaele Mezzenga, a professor in Food and Soft Materials Science, have created a new nanocomposite made of graphene and protein fibrils: a special paper, which combines the ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 07, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Ingested nanoparticles could be harmful to health

(PhysOrg.com) -- Billions of engineered nanoparticles in foods and pharmaceuticals are ingested by humans daily, and new Cornell research warns they may be more harmful to health than previously thought.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 17, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Allen Telescope Array begins all-sky surveys

(PhysOrg.com) -- With commissioning of the 42 radio dishes of the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) nearly complete, UC Berkeley astronomers are now embarking on several major radio astronomy projects, including daily surveys of ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 28, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Stem cells turned into complex, functioning intestinal tissue in lab

For the first time, scientists have created functioning human intestinal tissue in the laboratory from pluripotent stem cells.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 12, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Tech company to build science ghost town in NM

New Mexico, home to several of the nation's premier scientific, nuclear and military institutions, is planning to embark on a science project of unprecedented scale - a petri dish the size of a large U.S. city.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Sep 06, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 18

Researchers create first human heart cells that can be paced with light

In a compact lab space at Stanford University, Oscar Abilez, MD, trains a microscope on a small collection of cells in a petri dish. A video recorder projects what the microscope sees on a nearby monitor. The cells in the ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Sep 20, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Rainforest plant developed sonar dish to attract pollinating bats

The researchers discovered that a rainforest vine, pollinated by bats, has evolved dish-shaped leaves with such conspicuous echoes that nectar-feeding bats can find its flowers twice as fast by echolocation. The study is ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 28, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

ET: Check your voicemail

(PhysOrg.com) -- Alien beings on faraway planets may not have noticed, but it’s been 35 years since human beings made the first deliberate effort to send them a message.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 7

New evidence on how cranberry juice fights bacteria that cause urinary tract infections

Scientists today reported new scientific evidence on the effectiveness of that old folk remedy -- cranberry juice -- for urinary tract infections, at the 240th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 23, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 3