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Carbon nanotube muscles generate giant twist for novel motors

New artificial muscles that twist like the trunk of an elephant, but provide a thousand times higher rotation per length, were announced on Oct. 13 for a publication in Science magazine by a team of resear ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

T. rex was bigger than thought: study

The iconic T. rex dinosaur grew bigger and faster than previously estimated, according to new methods based on actual skeletons instead of scale models, British and US scientists said Wednesday.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

New 'bionic' leg gives amputees a natural gait

A new lower-limb prosthetic developed at Vanderbilt University allows amputees to walk without the leg-dragging gait characteristic of conventional artificial legs.

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 17, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Dogs in motion

How does a dog run? Until now even experts found it nearly impossible to answer this simple sounding question. "We simply didn't know", says Professor Dr. Martin S. Fischer from the Friedrich Schiller University ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 27, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Researchers find smoking gun of world's biggest extinction

About 250 million years about 95 per cent of life was wiped out in the sea and 70 per cent on land. Researchers at the University of Calgary believe they have discovered evidence to support massive volcanic ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 23, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (38) | comments 36 | with audio podcast

Bizarre fossil crocodile dispels notion that these reptiles are static and unchanging

(PhysOrg.com) -- We all know that crocodiles are reptiles with long snouts, conical teeth, strong jaws and long tails. But according to researchers at Stony Brook University in New York, we don't know what ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 08, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

JAK inhibitor provides rapid, durable relief for myelofibrosis patients

An oral medication produces significant and lasting relief for patients with myelofibrosis, a debilitating and lethal bone marrow disorder, researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center report in the Sept. ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 15, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New imaging technique could help physicians ease the aftermath of breast cancer

A new study of breast cancer survivors may help physicians ease a common side effect of cancer treatments. The collaborative research by Eva Sevick, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Molecular Imaging at the University of ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Aug 03, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Transforaminal steroid injection for lumbar radicular pain proves superior to placebo

A recent study from Australian researchers determined that transforaminal injection of steroids was a viable alternative to surgery for lumbar radicular pain due to disc herniation. Full details of the study appear in the ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jul 30, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Why walking flat-footed hurts habitual high-heels wearers

Why does it hurt walking flat-footed after wearing high heels? Marco Narici and his team from Manchester Metropolitan University looked at the calf muscles of habitual high heel wearers and found that the women's muscle fibers ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 15, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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