Growing up beneath the Concorde flight path, I learned early on that if you heard its characteristic roar overhead you had to look far towards the horizon to see it. If you were lucky, you would see Concorde first. You could ...
Engineering
Feb 12, 2016
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Learning CPR could be the difference between life and death for your pet, as Perth continues to sweat through one of the hottest summers on record.
Plants & Animals
Feb 12, 2016
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Production of an antibody can be doubled without loss in quality by genetically modifying special cells to overexpress heat shock protein 27 (HSP27), a Singaporean research team has shown, bringing efficient production of ...
Biotechnology
Feb 11, 2016
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Apple is recalling some AC power adapters that it sold for use in continental Europe, South Korea and several other countries outside the United States, after concluding that the two-pronged wall plugs may break and cause ...
Consumer & Gadgets
Jan 28, 2016
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Recent synchrotron advances and the development of dynamic compression platforms have created the ability to investigate extreme states of matter on short timescales at X-ray beamlines using shock waves generated by impact ...
General Physics
Jan 27, 2016
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New research by Lawrence Livermore scientists shows how shock waves can damage membrane proteins in traumatic brain injury patients.
Biochemistry
Jan 27, 2016
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Astronomers are finding dozens of the fastest stars in our galaxy with the help of images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE.
Astronomy
Jan 5, 2016
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Supernovae, the explosive deaths of massive stars, are among the most momentous events in the cosmos because they disburse into space all of the chemical elements that were produced inside their progenitor stars, including ...
Astronomy
Dec 7, 2015
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For scientists studying the impacts of space weather, one of the central mysteries of solar flares - the colossal release of magnetic energy in the Sun's atmosphere that erupts with the force of millions of hydrogen bombs ...
Space Exploration
Dec 3, 2015
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A team of astrophysicists led by Dr Kalliopi Dasyra discovered fast winds of molecular and atomic gas that were caused by the interaction of the jet of a supermassive black hole with interstellar medium clouds in the nearby ...
Astronomy
Dec 2, 2015
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