When NASA's Dawn spacecraft entered orbit around giant asteroid Vesta in July, scientists fully expected the probe to reveal some surprising sights. But no one expected a 13-mile high mountain, two and a half times higher ...
Space Exploration
Jan 2, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) publish exciting new results on the regulation of cell fate in the scientific journal Nature. They identified novel epigenetic ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 15, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Over the past couple of decades, many people in and out of the science community have watched the steady progress being made in robotics. It’s an exceptionally interesting field due to the anthropomorphic ...
How a bare foot strikes the ground as one walks reveals your identity almost as well as a fingerprint, according to a study released Wednesday.
Other
Sep 7, 2011
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A Northern Illinois University chemist is part of an international team of scientists whose work might someday crack open cold-case files.
Biochemistry
Aug 3, 2011
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Using ovarian surface epithelial cells from mice, researchers from Virginia Tech have released findings from a study that they believe will help in cancer risk assessment, cancer diagnosis, and treatment efficiency in a technical ...
Bio & Medicine
Jul 5, 2011
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In the sexy but increasingly scary world of smartphone forensics, insiders have a name for all the personal information purposely or unknowingly stored inside that iPhone or Android or Blackberry in your pocket. They call ...
Other
May 1, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When a forensic agent dusts a surface with powder or exposes it to the vapors of an iodine chamber, mystery fans know what is going on: This is how latent fingerprints are made visible so that they can be ...
Materials Science
Apr 11, 2011
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Using genetic methods to count endangered eagles, a group of scientists showed that traditional counting methods can lead to significantly incorrect totals that they believe could adversely affect conservation efforts.
Plants & Animals
Mar 7, 2011
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When people on airplanes ask Alan Newell what he works on, he tells them "flower arrangements."
Mathematics
Feb 18, 2011
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