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Screening for breast cancer without X-rays: Lasers and sound merge in promising diagnostic technique

X-ray mammography is an important diagnostic tool in the fight against breast cancer, but it has certain drawbacks that limit its effectiveness. For example, it can give in false positive and negative results; ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created May 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Target: Drug-resistant bacteria

Over the past several decades, scientists have faced challenges in developing new antibiotics even as bacteria have become increasingly resistant to existing drugs. One strategy that might combat such resistance ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 04, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Preschoolers' reading skills benefit from one modest change by teachers

A small change in how teachers and parents read aloud to preschoolers may provide a big boost to their reading skills later on, a new study found.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Apr 17, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

New detector design improves gamma-ray measurements

(Phys.org) -- In the pursuit of precision measurements, nothing is simple, even when the apparatus employed appears to be utterly uncomplicated. An instructive case in point is the new ionization chamber used ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Physics group uses graphene to allow electron microscopy of liquid objects

(Phys.org) -- News of new uses for graphene continue to come in with remarkable regularity, and now a team of physicists, as they describe in their paper published in the journal Science, have figured out a ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

Keep your pets away from chocolate this Easter

Murdoch University Veterinary Hospital is warning pet owners against the temptation to share chocolate with their dogs this Easter.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Radiation risks from Fukushima are likely to be less than for Chernobyl

(PhysOrg.com) -- Radiation exposures to the public in Japan from meltdowns at three Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant reactors in the wake of last year’s 9.0-magnitude earthquake and 45-foot tsunami ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 5

Keeping track to selenium metabolism

Spanish and Danish researchers have developed a method for the in vivo study of the unknown metabolism of selenium, an essential element for living beings. The technique can help clarify whether or not it ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers show the way forward for improving organic and molecular electronic devices

Future prospects for superior new organic electronic devices are brighter now thanks to a new study by researchers with the DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Working at the Lab's ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

UNH research adds to mounting evidence against popular pavement sealcoat

A parking lot at the edge of the University of New Hampshire campus has contributed important research to an emerging concern for the environment and human health.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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