News tagged with host interaction

Space Image: Ring of fire

(PhysOrg.com) -- This composite image shows the central region of the spiral galaxy NGC 4151. X-rays (blue) from the Chandra X-ray Observatory are combined with optical data (yellow) showing positively charged ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 28, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Spitzer sees shrouded burst of stars

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have found a stunning burst of star formation that beams out as much infrared light as an entire galaxy. The collision of two spiral galaxies ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 23, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 15 | with audio podcast

X-Ray observations of an extrasolar planetary system

(PhysOrg.com) -- The majority of extra-solar planets (about 278 of them) are more massive than Jupiter. About 20% of this majority group orbit their stars at a distances of less than one-tenth of an astronomical ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 22, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Yahoo! shuts down GeoCities

Yahoo! on Monday closed GeoCities, a free Web hosting service that it purchased for over three billion dollars at the height of the dot-com boom.

Technology / Internet

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists follow live infection by food-poisoning bacteria Listeria

Scientists in Portugal and France managed to follow the patterns of gene expression in food-poisoning bacteria Listeria monocytogenes (L. monocytogenes) live during infection for the first time. The work ab ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Yahoo! abandoning GeoCities

Yahoo! said Thursday it will close its GeoCities service that provides people a free online locale for home pages.

Technology / Internet

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

New findings reveal how influenza virus hijacks human cells

Influenza is and remains a disease to reckon with. Seasonal epidemics around the world kill several hundred thousand people every year. In the light of looming pandemics if bird flu strains develop the ability ...

Biology /

created Feb 04, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0