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Researchers identify mechanism that maintains stem cells readiness

An immune-system receptor plays an unexpected but crucially important role in keeping stem cells from differentiating and in helping blood cancer cells grow, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center report today in the ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Plastic trash altering ocean habitats, study shows

A 100-fold upsurge in human-produced plastic garbage in the ocean is altering habitats in the marine environment, according to a new study led by a graduate student researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 08, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (8) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Scientists snare 'superprawn' off New Zealand

Scientists have captured a "supergiant" crustacean in waters seven kilometres (4.5 miles) deep off New Zealand, measuring 10 times the normal size of related species.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (14) | comments 8

Indian Ocean cocktail party leaves trail of party hats behind

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have unexpectedly found traces of the supercontinent Gondwana in the Indian Ocean - in the process solving a mystery behind a large group of ocean 'mountains' known as seamounts, ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists discover a way to kill off tumors in cancer treatment breakthrough

Scientists from the School of Pharmacy at Queen's University Belfast and Almac Discovery Ltd have developed a new treatment for cancer which rather than attacking tumours directly, prevents the growth of new blood vessels ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 05, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Gulf oil spill could widen, worsen 'dead zone' (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- While an out-of-control gusher deep in the Gulf of Mexico fouls beaches and chokes marshland habitat, another threat could be growing below the oil-slicked surface.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 07, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Study pinpoints new role of molecule in the health of body's back-up blood circulation

When the arteries delivering oxygen to our vital organs are obstructed by atherosclerosis or clots, the result is almost always a stroke, heart attack or damage to a peripheral tissue such as the legs (peripheral ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created May 26, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists find huge oil plumes deep in Gulf of Mexico: report

Scientists have discovered enormous plumes of oil in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, in an indication that the leak from an underwater well could be far worse than previously estimated, The New York ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 16, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (41) | comments 106

Pioneering Deep-Sea Robot Lost at Sea

(PhysOrg.com) -- A pioneering deep-sea exploration robot -- one of the first successful submersible vehicles that was both unmanned and untethered to surface ships -- was lost at sea Friday, March 5, on a ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 09, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Gulf's 'dead zone' much smaller than predicted (w/ Video)

NOAA-supported scientists, led by Nancy Rabalais, Ph.D., from the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON), found the size of this year's Gulf of Mexico dead zone to be smaller than forecasted, measuring 3,000 square ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 25, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Seismic survey at the Mariana trench will follow water dragged down into the Earth's mantle

(PhysOrg.com) -- Last month, Doug Wiens, PhD, professor of earth and planetary science at Washington University in St. Louis, was cruising the tropical waters of the western Pacific above the Mariana trench ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Expedition to undersea mountain yields new information about sub-seafloor structure

Scientists recently concluded an expedition aboard the research vessel JOIDES Resolution to learn more about Atlantis Massif, an undersea mountain, or seamount, that formed in a very different way than the ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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Sailing in a sea of microbes

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers led by Matt Sullivan at the University of Arizona are among the first to dive into the world of viruses drifting through the world's oceans.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists look to microbes to unlock Earth's deep secrets

(PhysOrg.com) -- Of all the habitable parts of our planet, one ecosystem still remains largely unexplored and unknown to science: the igneous ocean crust.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Happy Feet the penguin missing in Southern Ocean

Scientists tracking Happy Feet, the wayward penguin who became a worldwide celebrity after washing up on a New Zealand beach, said Monday they had lost contact with the giant bird.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1