Recent efforts between the University of Maryland (UMD) and Bethesda-based Weinberg Medical Physics LLC (WMP) have led to a new technique to magnetically deliver drug-carrying particles to hard-to-reach targets. The method ...
Bio & Medicine
Dec 12, 2014
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A French court is expected to decide Friday whether to ban the ride-hailing company Uber's service after a complaint from rival taxi and car services.
Business
Dec 12, 2014
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The first ever landing of a man-made probe onto a comet has been named Physics World Breakthrough of the Year for 2014.
General Physics
Dec 12, 2014
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A toddler on Tuesday peered through thick glass as Tess – the world's oldest African penguin, representing an endangered species set to vanish in the child's lifetime – dove into her pool at the Pueblo Zoo. It was the ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 12, 2014
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JPEG is the image format we use the most in the world, be it in our computers, smartphones or digital cameras. But it is actually more than that. JPEG is also an international group of experts, which recently elected as its ...
Internet
Dec 12, 2014
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Scientists have discovered that penguin and seabird poo (guano) from colonies around the Antarctic Peninsula has a unique spectral signature that can be identified from satellite imagery. The results are published this week ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 12, 2014
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ESA is finalising its first experiment on a Chinese space mission: small containers of crude oil will help to improve our understanding of oil reservoirs buried kilometres underground.
Space Exploration
Dec 12, 2014
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Late spring and summer weather brings blooms of color to the Atlantic Ocean off of South America, at least from a satellite view.
Earth Sciences
Dec 12, 2014
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Five Sentinel-1A radar scans acquired between 3 October and 2 December 2014 were combined to create this image of ground deformation in Mexico City.
Space Exploration
Dec 12, 2014
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Picking up an apple is one of those jobs requiring the delicate touch of the human hand – or its robotic counterpart.
Robotics
Dec 12, 2014
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