23 July 2010
(MTU PR) From Tolkien’s ring of power in The Lord of the Rings to Star Trek’s Romulans, who could make their warships disappear from view, from Harry Potter’s magical cloak to the garment that makes players vanish in the video game classic “Dungeons and Dragons, the power to turn someone or something invisible has fascinated [...]
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15 July 2010
Planet HD 209458b has been studied for some time, even though this Jupiter-sized planet is 153 light years from Earth. It was one of the first planets found by studying the change in light as it passes between us and it’s parent planet. With an orbit of 3.5 days, that gives a lot of opportunities [...]
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03 July 2010
If you’ve been looking at Jupiter lately, you might notice something missing – one of it’s rings. While Saturn is usually the planet known for rings, Jupiter normally has 2, one in the north and another in the south. The southern one is the missing ring, and it’s not the first time this has happened. [...]
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01 July 2010
CoRoT (short for convection, rotation, planetary transits) space telescope, run by National Space Studies and partners, has recently found 7 new planets outside our solar system. Each of these were confirmed using earth-based observatories. CoRoT has a 27 cm diameter focal lens, and a camera sensitive to light variations over time. Using stellar seismology to [...]
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30 June 2010
(WI PR) Whitehead Institute Founding Member Gerald Fink has been awarded the 2010 Genetics Prize of The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation for his groundbreaking research in yeast genetics. “This is the preeminent genetics prize in the world,” says Whitehead Institute Director David Page. “I’m sure Gerry is greatly honored to join the Prize’s very [...]
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22 June 2010
(EPA PR) Beautiful lawns are a big part of summer, but the average lawn can eat up your free time and cost a bundle to maintain. Going with eco-friendly methods can actually save you time and money, and help the environment. A thick, full lawn reduces soil erosion, filters contaminants from rainwater and absorbs airborne [...]
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21 June 2010
Within the coarsening base of an ancient mudstone exposure in the Afar Region of Ethiopia, researchers say they found evidence that provides new information about the best-known early human ancestor, Australopithecus afarensis. Yohannes Haile-Selassie–curator and head of physical anthropology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History–and an international team of scientists dug up a 3.6 [...]
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21 June 2010
(UCLA PR) James C. Liao, the Chancellor’s Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been awarded the 2010 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The award promotes research on and development of less-hazardous alternative technologies that reduce or eliminate [...]
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18 June 2010
(Pew PR) The Pew Charitable Trusts today named 21 talented scientists as Pew Scholars in the Biomedical Sciences. The program enables scientists to take calculated risks, expand their research and explore unanticipated leads. Scholars receive $240,000 over four years and gain inclusion into a select community of scientists that includes three Nobel Prize winners, three [...]
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18 June 2010
A gentle oxygen-delivery technique is as effective as a more invasive one for treating very preterm infants, according to a new study. The researchers also found that slightly lower oxygen levels decrease the risk for eye damage but may raise the risk of death. Very preterm infants—those born at 24 to 27 weeks of gestation [...]
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