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Classic portrait of a barred spiral galaxy

(PhysOrg.com) -- The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1073, which is found in the constellation of Cetus (The Sea Monster). Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Link unraveled between chromosomal instability and centrosome defects in cancer cells

In a new study, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute scientists disprove a century-old theory about why cancer cells often have too many or too few chromosomes, and show that the actual reason may hold the key to a novel approach ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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LIVE: Facebook goes public

(AP) -- It's Facebook's big day. The site, which was born in a dorm room eight years ago and has grown into a worldwide network of almost a billion people, is making the most talked-about stock market debut ...

Technology / Business

created May 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Facebook falls flat in public debut (Update 3)

(AP) -- In the hours before Facebook's stock began trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market for the first time, CEO Mark Zuckerberg reminded the company's 3,500 employees not to get caught up in the hoopla surrounding ...

Technology / Business

created May 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Spider guitar dazzles with style and sound (w/ Video)

(Phys.org) -- Massey University mechatronics professor Olaf Diegel made his dream come true when he created a series of colourful 3D-printed electric guitars with latticed bodies adorned with spiders and butterflies. ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 14, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Game theory, in the real world

For students in New York and Boston, who have a range of options beyond their neighborhood school, choosing a high school used to be a maddeningly complicated guessing game. In Boston, for instance, many students would list ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 02, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Shakespeare's co-author revealed

(Phys.org) -- All's Well that Ends Wellmay be a collaboration between William Shakespeare and Thomas Middleton, Oxford University academics have found.

Other Sciences / Other

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

For the stock market, it's all about Apple

(AP) -- For most of the year, Apple has propelled the Nasdaq forward. In the past few days, it's done just the opposite.

Technology / Business

created Apr 16, 2012 | popularity 1.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

No ice loss seen in major Himalayan glaciers: scientists

One of the world's biggest glacier regions has so far resisted global warming that has ravaged mountain ice elsewhere, scientists reported on Sunday.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 15, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 132

Titanic's sinking: Was it more than human folly

(AP) -- After an entire century that included two high-profile government investigations and countless books and movies, we're still debating what really caused the Titanic to hit an iceberg and sink on that ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Apr 11, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 9

Fertilizer use responsible for increase in nitrous oxide in atmosphere

University of California, Berkeley, chemists have found a smoking gun proving that increased fertilizer use over the past 50 years is responsible for a dramatic rise in atmospheric nitrous oxide, which is a major greenhouse ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (9) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Man who warned of Challenger disaster dies at 73

The man who warned his employer of the equipment quirk that led to the deadly explosion of the space shuttle Challenger has died. Roger Boisjoly was 73.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3


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