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Rescuing male turkey chicks

A novel approach to classify the gender of six-week-old turkey poults could save millions of male chicks from being killed shortly after birth, according to Dr. Gerald Steiner from the Dresden University of Technology in ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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Lower energy could lead to more biological imaging at LCLS

While SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source was designed to push the limits as a high-energy X-ray laser, users' requests have led staff at the facility to successfully step it back to a lower minimum energy ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

NASA preparing to launch NuSTAR, its newest X-ray eyes

(Phys.org) -- NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, is being prepared for the final journey to its launch pad on Kwajalein Atoll in the central Pacific Ocean. The mission will study everything ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

11.5 billion years old: Stellar archaeology traces Milky Way's history

(Phys.org) -- Unfortunately, stars don't have birth certificates. So, astronomers have a tough time figuring out their ages. Knowing a star's age is critical for understanding how our Milky Way galaxy built ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 30, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Subaru telescope pioneers the use of adaptive optics for optical observations

A research team from the University of Tokyo/Kavli IPMU, Ehime University, and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) has succeeded in conducting the first, full-scale scientific observationswith ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Subaru telescope discovers the most distant protocluster of galaxies

Using the Subaru Telescope, a team of astronomers led by Jun Toshikawa (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan), Dr. Nobunari Kashikawa (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan), and Dr. Kazuaki ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 05, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

'Ridiculously' dim bevy of stars found beyond Milky Way

(Phys.org) -- A team of American, Canadian and Chilean astronomers have stumbled onto a remarkably faint cluster of stars orbiting the Milky Way that puts out as much light as only 120 modest Sun-like stars. ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 27, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (16) | comments 72 | with audio podcast

New microscope captures nanoscale structures in dazzling 3D

(Phys.org) -- A new x-ray microscope probes the inner intricacies of materials smaller than human cells and creates unparalleled high-resolution 3D images. By integrating unique automatic calibrations, scientists ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

When dark energy turned on (Update)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Some six billion light years distant, almost halfway from now back to the big bang, the universe was undergoing an elemental change. Held back until then by the mutual gravitational attraction ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Mar 30, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (19) | comments 67 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover new method of making nanoparticles

(PhysOrg.com) -- An engineering researcher at the University of Arkansas and his colleagues at the University of Utah have discovered a new method of making nanoparticles and nanofilms to be used in developing better electronic ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 06, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Engineers tuck nuSTAR in its nose cone

(PhysOrg.com) -- Technicians at Vandenberg Air Force Base in central California are placing the two halves of the rocket nose cone, or fairing, around NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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