Ubisoft assembling Avengers for game
(AP) -- Now that they've saved the world on film, "The Avengers" are teaming up for a motion-control video game.
May 10, 2012
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Solution to ancient rock puzzle posited
A superplume, or massive episode of volcanic eruptions that related to extensive melting of the Earth's mantle, could explain the puzzling reappearance of major iron formations long after the rise in atmospheric ...
Apr 27, 2012
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Magnetic nanochain detonates chemo barrage inside tumors
Medicine-toting nanochains slip into tumors and explode a chemotherapy drug into hard-to-reach cores of cancer, engineers and scientists at Case Western Reserve University report.
Apr 18, 2012
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November launch for new version of 'Halo' videogame
Microsoft on Tuesday announced that a new installment to the hit videogame "Halo" will be released in November, and predicted it would launch the next decade of the hugely popular franchise.
Apr 17, 2012
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Hollywood warms to China's new openness
(AP) -- There's a new breach in China's great cultural wall and Hollywood is cautiously moving in.
Apr 16, 2012
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Bacteria 'munching' on Titanic: scientists
In less than 30 years, there may be nothing left of the Titanic but a heap of "rusticles," warns researcher Henrietta Mann, who has spent four years researching bacteria gnawing on its sunken hull.
Apr 10, 2012
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Scientists use nanotechnology to hunt for hidden pathogens
Researchers at the University of Central Florida have developed a novel technique that may give doctors a faster and more sensitive tool to detect pathogens associated with inflammatory bowel disease, including ...
Apr 09, 2012
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Researchers use nanoparticles, magnetic current to damage cancerous cells in mice
Using nanoparticles and alternating magnetic fields, University of Georgia scientists have found that head and neck cancerous tumor cells in mice can be killed in half an hour without harming healthy cells.
Mar 27, 2012
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Discovery of new catalyst promises cheaper, greener drugs
A chemistry team at the University of Toronto has discovered environmentally-friendly iron-based nanoparticle catalysts that work as well as the expensive, toxic, metal-based catalysts that are currently in wide use by the ...
Mar 27, 2012
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Iron is key to reversing global warming, Nature research shows
Canada defines itself as a nation that stretches from coast to coast to coast. But can we keep those coasts healthy in the face of climate change? Yves Gélinas, associate professor in Concordia's Department of Chemistry ...
Mar 14, 2012
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Ocean iron affects biological productivity: study
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers has just published a new paper, lead authored by Boston University Professor of Earth Sciences Richard W. Murray, that provides compelling evidence from marine sediment ...
Mar 13, 2012
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Physics sheds light on the role of humidity in ironing
Ironing increases the humidity of a piece of cloth by injecting water vapor in the form of steam. But how does the vapor affect the fabric? Until now, it was thought that its only effect was to soften the fibers. French researchers ...
Feb 24, 2012
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Physicists surprised by disappearing and reappearing superconductivity in iron selenium chalcogenides
(PhysOrg.com) -- Superconductivity is a rare physical state in which matter is able to conduct electricity -- maintain a flow of electrons -- without any resistance. This phenomenon can only be found in certain ...
Feb 22, 2012
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Big, bad bacterium is an 'iron pirate'
(PhysOrg.com) -- Life inside the human body sometimes looks like life on the high seas in the 1600s, when pirates hijacked foreign vessels in search of precious metals.
Feb 21, 2012
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Rio Tinto plans world-first driverless rail network
Miner Rio Tinto will use driverless trains to deliver its iron ore to ports in Western Australia in what it said Monday will be the world's first automated, long-distance, heavy-haul rail network.
Feb 20, 2012
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