In a new approach to developing treatments for breast cancer, prostate cancer and enlarged hearts, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine researchers are zeroing in on a workhorse protein called RSK.
Biochemistry
Feb 9, 2010
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In the wake of the earthquake in Haiti, University at Buffalo geography students are participating in a global effort to enhance the international response and recovery effort by helping to assess damage, using images hosted ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 9, 2010
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In a 1954 speech to the American Physical Society, the University of Chicago's Enrico Fermi fancifully envisioned a particle accelerator that encircled the globe. Such would be the ultimate theoretical outcome, Fermi surmised, ...
General Physics
Feb 9, 2010
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Young people who have experienced threats and violence feel more insecure than others in urban public spaces, especially when alone. This is one conclusion from researchers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Social Sciences
Feb 9, 2010
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Researchers in Chicago and London have developed a method for controlling the properties of magnets that could be used to improve the storage capacity of next-generation computer hard drives.
General Physics
Feb 9, 2010
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A century after Amedeo Modigliani painted the Portrait of Maud Abrantes, the mystery behind the painting might be solved. Ofra Rimon, Director and Curator of the Hecht Museum at the University of Haifa, discovered that hidden ...
Other
Feb 9, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Hydrogen-powered fuel cells and solar energy are the best hope for a more environmentally friendly and resource-sparing energy supply in the future. A combination of the two is considered to be particularly ...
Materials Science
Feb 9, 2010
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A radical new approach to the design of communications networks, called "network coding," promises to make Internet file sharing faster, streaming video more reliable, and cell-phone reception better -- among other improvements.
Computer Sciences
Feb 9, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Using cryo-electron microscopy and advanced image-processing methods, UCLA researchers have developed a model of how the potentially therapeutic vesicular stomatitis virus assembles.
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 9, 2010
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In the words of Todd Squires, of the University of California, Santa Barbara "Nature has long inspired researchers in fluid mechanics to explore the mechanical strategies used by living creatures. Where better to look for ...
General Physics
Feb 9, 2010
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