(PhysOrg.com) -- Using ingenuity and an unorthodox 'dirty hack', ESA has recovered the four-satellite Cluster mission from near loss. The drama began in March, when a crucial science package stopped responding to commands ...
Space Exploration
Jul 1, 2011
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As the call for alternative energy grows louder in Michigan and more communities consider wind farms, a group led by a pair of Michigan State University professors has issued a report calling for stricter regulations on noise ...
Energy & Green Tech
Jul 1, 2011
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Researchers from Dutch FOM Institute AMOLF, together with colleagues from Philips Research, Eindhoven University of Technology and Delft University of Technology, have made special nanostructures that could be used as light-emitting ...
Nanomaterials
Jul 1, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In research recently published in the leading international journal PNAS, Trinity researchers exploit the potential of a biomaterial to reveal the activity of important fat metabolising enzymes. The findings ...
Biochemistry
Jul 1, 2011
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An unusual chemical compound isolated from a mud-dwelling fungus found in a soil sample collected in Daejeon, South Korea, could lead to a new family of antitumor drugs. Discovered by teams led by Jong Seog Ahn at the Korea ...
Biochemistry
Jul 1, 2011
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Stars and stripes. Fireworks. Red, white and blue. For many Americans, summertime is a colorful celebration of freedom, independence and patriotism – particularly around the 4th of July.
Economics & Business
Jul 1, 2011
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Chemists normally work rigorously to exclude impurities from their reactions. This is especially true for scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) experiments that can produce atomic-scale images of surfaces. Using STM to investigate ...
Materials Science
Jul 1, 2011
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Kangaroos adopt. It doesn't happen often, but to the astonishment of biologists at Wilsons Promontory National Park in Australia, sometimes a mother bends forward, opens her arms and invites someone else's youngster to hop ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 1, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- With an earthquake in Philadelphia, tornadoes in Massachusetts and elsewhere, wildfires in Arizona and massive flooding in the Midwest, spring 2011 has been marked by rare disasters and extreme weather. As ...
Other
Jul 1, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The identification and classification of species (taxonomy) and its value as a scientific discipline has been brought into focus with the continuing fight to save an endangered seabird from extinction, says ...
Ecology
Jul 1, 2011
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