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Alberta's hidden valleys offer both resources and danger

Alberta is crisscrossed with hidden glacial valleys that hold both resource treasures and potential danger.

Warm-blooded dinosaurs worked up a sweat

Were dinosaurs "warm-blooded" like present-day mammals and birds, or "cold-blooded" like present day lizards?

Climate studies to benefit from 12 years of satellite aerosol data

Aerosols, very small particles suspended in the air, play an important role in the global climate balance and in regulating climate change.

Swift, XMM-Newton satellites tune into a middleweight black hole

GREENBELT, Md. -- While astronomers have studied lightweight and heavyweight black holes for decades, the evidence for black holes with intermediate masses has been much harder to come by.

'Escaped' proteins add to hearing loss in elderly, UF researchers find

GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Age-related hearing loss is the most common sensory disorder among the elderly.

New transparent insulating film could enable energy-efficient displays

Johns Hopkins materials scientists have found a new use for a chemical compound that has traditionally been viewed as an electrical conductor, a substance that allows electricity to flow through it

National Academy report cites Ames Laboratory's strength in new materials research

According to a recent report by the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences, the United States, once the world leader in the discovery and growth of crystalline materials, is

Nanoparticles do not damage DNA across barriers by signaling molecules

November 9, 2009 by QED induced rad...

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Ionizing radiation emitted by nanoparticles damages the DNA by penetrating barriers instead of the nanoparticle signaling across the barrier for the DNA to be damaged

Deep creep means milder, more frequent earthquakes along Southern California's San Jacinto fault

With an average of four mini-earthquakes per day, Southern California's San Jacinto fault constantly adjusts to make it a less likely candidate for a major earthquake than its quiet neighbor to the

The Sunyaev- Zeldovich Effect is independent of Redshift because of Cosmic Dust

November 7, 2009 by QED induced rad...

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Cosmic dust explains why the intensity of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect is independent of Redshift.

Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect

'Dropouts' pinpoint earliest galaxies

Pasadena, CA -- Astronomers, conducting the broadest survey to date of galaxies from about 800 million years after the Big Bang, have found 22 early galaxies and confirmed the age of one by its cha

We spend more on products with detailed nutritional information

People would be willing to pay more for products that carry detailed nutritional information than for the so-called light items.

Pathogen protection and virulence: Dark side of fungal membrane protein revealed

Researchers at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech and Montana State University have discovered a fungal protein that plays a key role in causing disease in plants and animals

New TMS clinic offers noninvasive treatment for major depression

(CHICAGO) -- Rush University Medical Center has opened the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Clinic to offer patients suffering from major depression a safe, effective, non-drug treatment.

Carnegie Mellon researchers receive grant

PITTSBURGH -- Carnegie Mellon University's Lucio Soibelman, H. Scott Matthews and Jose M.F.



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