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How nature shapes the birth of stars

(Phys.org) -- Using state of the art computer simulations, a team of astronomers from the University of Bonn in Germany have found the first evidence that the way in which stars form depends on their birth ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 11, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Studying butterfly flight to help build bug-size flying robots

To improve the next generation of insect-size flying machines, Johns Hopkins engineers have been aiming high-speed video cameras at some of the prettiest bugs on the planet. By figuring out how butterflies ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

A milestone toward ending river blindness in the Western Hemisphere by 2012

An international team of researchers led by Rodrigo Gonzalez of the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala reports that the transmission of onchocerciasis or river blindness has been broken in Escuintla, Guatemala, one of the ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Team finds buckyballs grow larger by 'eating' vaporized carbon

(Phys.org) -- Fullerenes were first discovered back in 1985 by a team of physicists vaporizing graphite in helium gas, one class of which, the buckminsterfullerene (C60) named after Buckminster Fuller and ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 30, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast weblog

There's more star-stuff out there but it's not dark matter

(Phys.org) -- More atomic hydrogen gas — the ultimate fuel for stars — is lurking in today's Universe than we thought, CSIRO astronomer Dr. Robert Braun has found.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 30, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (11) | comments 15 | with audio podcast

New NIST SRM supports the fight against terrorist bombings

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a new standard reference material (SRM) to aid in the detection of two explosive compounds that are known to be used by terrorists. Researchers ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created May 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study finds emissions from widely used cookstoves vary with use

The smoke rising from a cookstove fills the air with the tantalizing aroma of dinner – and a cloud of pollutants and particles that threaten both health and the environment. How families in developing ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Velvet spiders emerge from underground in new cybertaxonomic monograph

Velvet spiders include some of the most beautiful arachnids in Europe and some of the world's most cooperative species. Social species can be very abundant in parts of tropical Africa and Asia with conspicuous co ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Richer parasite diversity leads to healthier frogs: study

Increases in the diversity of parasites that attack amphibians cause a decrease in the infection success rate of virulent parasites, including one that causes malformed limbs and premature death, says a new University of ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Every black hole contains a new universe: A physicist presents a solution to present-day cosmic mysteries

Our universe may exist inside a black hole. This may sound strange, but it could actually be the best explanation of how the universe began, and what we observe today. It's a theory that has been explored ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (88) | comments 256 | with audio podcast

Lunar boom: Why we'll soon be mining the moon

As history has repeatedly shown, where there are valuable minerals to be unearthed, adventurous humans will arrive in droves – even if it means battling extreme conditions and risking life and limb.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 16, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 4

A supernova cocoon breakthrough

(Phys.org) -- Observations with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have provided the first X-ray evidence of a supernova shock wave breaking through a cocoon of gas surrounding the star that exploded. This discovery ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 15, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

DC3: Chemistry of thunderstorms

(Phys.org) -- NASA researchers are about to fly off on a campaign that will take them into the heart of thunderstorm country.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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