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Keeping up with embryogenesis: New microscope lets users track individual cells as they move, divide

(Medical Xpress) -- The transformation of a fertilized egg into a functioning animal requires thousands of cell divisions and intricate rearrangements of those cells. That process is captured with unprecedented ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created 2 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A new paradigm for active galactic nuclei

(Phys.org) -- Seyfert galaxies are similar to normal galaxies like our own Milky Way except in one critical respect: their nuclei are fantastically bright, in extreme instances as luminous as 100 billion suns. ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Can sound science guide dispersant use during subsea oil spills?

Two years ago this week, oil began streaming from the seafloor into the Gulf of Mexico following the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon platform. All told, the disaster cost 11 lives, released 4.9 million ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Combining centuries-old mathematical theorems provides efficient approach for characterizing nanoparticles' shape

(PhysOrg.com) -- Gregg Gallatin, a researcher at the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, has shown that combining a nineteenth century flux theorem with an eighteenth century mathematical operation provides ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

VLT takes most detailed infrared image of the Carina Nebula

(PhysOrg.com) -- ESO's Very Large Telescope has delivered the most detailed infrared image of the Carina Nebula stellar nursery taken so far. Many previously hidden features, scattered across a spectacular ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

The art of making stars

(PhysOrg.com) -- It might look like an abstract painting, but this splash of colors is in fact a busy star-forming complex called Rho Ophiuchi. NASA's Wide-field Infrared Explorer, or WISE, captured the picturesque ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Asia faces climate-induced migration 'crisis'

Asia must prepare for millions of people to flee their homes to safer havens within countries and across borders as weather patterns become more extreme, the Asian Development Bank warns.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 06, 2011 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (10) | comments 43

Scientists see the light in bizarre bioluminescent snail

Two scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have provided the first details about the mysterious flashes of dazzling bioluminescent light produced by a little-known sea snail.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

VISTA reveals the secret of the unicorn (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new infrared image from ESO’s VISTA survey telescope reveals an extraordinary landscape of glowing tendrils of gas, dark clouds and young stars within the constellation of Monoceros ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 06, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Molecular light sources sensitive to environment

A Dutch-French team of scientists led by FOM (Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter) researcher Dr Danang Birowosuto and University of Twente researcher Dr Allard Mosk has obtained the first experimental ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jul 30, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (24) | comments 0


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