]NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), best known for cutting-edge images of the sun, has made a discovery right here on Earth.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Feb 14, 2011 4.7 / 5 (7) 1 |

Cardiac arrests that can be treated by electric stimulation, also known as shockable arrests, were found at a higher frequency in public settings than in the home, according to a National Institutes of Health-funded study ...

Medicine & Health - Health

Jan 26, 2011 not rated yet 0

A new Chandra X-ray Observatory image of Messier 82, or M82, shows the result of star formation on overdrive. At a distance of only 12 million light years, M82 provides a unique cosmic laboratory for studying ...

Space & Earth - Astronomy

Jan 13, 2011 5 / 5 (6) 1

Whitehead Institute researchers have determined that heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) can create heritable traits in brewer's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) by affecting a large portion of the yeast genome. The finding has le ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Dec 23, 2010 not rated yet 0 |

Complementary medicines (CAM) can be dangerous for children and can even prove fatal, if substituted for conventional medicine, indicates an audit of kids' CAM treatment published online in the Archives of Disease in Childhood.

Medicine & Health - Health

Dec 23, 2010 1 / 5 (2) 1

On August 1, 2010, an entire hemisphere of the sun erupted. Filaments of magnetism snapped and exploded, shock waves raced across the stellar surface, billion-ton clouds of hot gas billowed into space. Astronomers ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Dec 14, 2010 5 / 5 (22) 43 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- The 33-year odyssey of NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has reached a distant point at the edge of our solar system where there is no outward motion of solar wind.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Dec 13, 2010 4.9 / 5 (49) 33 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- A circular rainbow appears like a halo around an exploded star in this new view of the IC 443 nebula from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE.

Space & Earth - Astronomy

Dec 10, 2010 4.4 / 5 (5) 2 |

Pathogenic listeria tricks intestinal cells into helping it pass through those cells to make people ill, and, if that doesn't work, the bacteria simply goes around the cells, according to a Purdue University ...

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Oct 25, 2010 4 / 5 (1) 0 |

The most illustrious meteorite in history continues to inspire heated debate. Does it carry microbial fossils from Mars or are its strange features just the product of some unique geochemistry? After almost ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Oct 22, 2010 4.8 / 5 (16) 6 |

A new study on the behavior of the zebrafish by Japanese researchers at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute has uncovered a key role for a region of the brain called the habenula nucleus in the development of ...

Medicine & Health - Neuroscience

Oct 11, 2010 5 / 5 (2) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Life on Earth as we know it really could be from out of this world. New research from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists shows that comets that crashed into Earth millions of ...

Chemistry - Biochemistry

Sep 13, 2010 4.5 / 5 (21) 13 |

Observations made with NASA's newly refurbished Hubble Space Telescope of a nearby supernova are allowing astronomers to measure the velocity and composition of "star guts" being ejected into space following ...

Space & Earth - Astronomy

Sep 02, 2010 4.6 / 5 (17) 9 |

A study published in the September 2010 issue of SHOCK by Dr. Ed W. Childs and colleagues at Scott & White Healthcare looks at how female versus male rats fared after suffering a trauma and subsequent hemorrhagic shock who we ...

Medicine & Health - Other

Aug 31, 2010 not rated yet 2

Despite clear evidence that Hsp12 -- a so-called heat shock or stress protein -- helps cells survive life-threatening conditions, how it works was an open question until now. The surprising answer is revealed ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Aug 26, 2010 5 / 5 (1) 0