Researchers unravel key mechanism of cellular damage in aging and disease 18 hours ago | User rating: 5 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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Researchers have taken a first snapshot of how a class of highly reactive molecules inflicts cellular damage as part of aging, heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, kidney disease and Alzheimer's disease to name a few. ... | |
Prevailing theory of aging challenged in Stanford worm study 17 hours ago | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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Age may not be rust after all. Specific genetic instructions drive aging in worms, report researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Their discovery contradicts the prevailing theory that aging is a buildup ... | |
 Electron microscopy enters the picometer scale 16 hours ago | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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Jülich scientists have succeeded in precisely measuring atomic spacings down to a few picometres using new methods in ultrahigh-resolution electron microscopy. This makes it possible to find out decisive parameters ... | |
 Lenses galore -- Hubble finds large sample of very distant galaxies 18 hours ago | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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By using the gravitational magnification from six massive lensing galaxy clusters, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided scientists with the largest sample of very distant galaxies seen to date. ... | |
 Arctic 'holds 90bln barrels of oil, mostly offshore' 16 hours ago | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Within the Arctic circle there are 90 billion barrels of oil and vast quantities of natural gas waiting to be tapped, most of it offshore, the government-run US Geological Survey said. | |
 Russian scientists begin trial exploration of world's deepest lake 16 hours ago | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Russian scientists leading a submarine expedition to probe the world's deepest lake on Thursday carried out test dives ahead of the start of the operation next week, reports said. | |
Material may help autos turn heat into electricity 16 hours ago | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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Researchers have invented a new material that will make cars even more efficient, by converting heat wasted through engine exhaust into electricity. In the current issue of the journal Science, they describe a material ... | |
 Revolutionary materials reflect ancient forms 17 hours ago | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Although order is pleasing to the eye, it can quickly become boring. In Islamic architecture therefore, decoration often follows a strict yet aperiodic pattern. Similar structures also form ... | |
UC Santa Barbara chemist goes nano with CoQ10 17 hours ago | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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If Bruce Lipshutz has his way, you may soon be buying bottles of water brimming with the life-sustaining coenzyme CoQ10 at your local Costco. | |
NASA Satellites Discover What Powers Northern Lights 17 hours ago | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers using a fleet of five NASA satellites have discovered that explosions of magnetic energy a third of the way to the moon power substorms that cause sudden brightenings and rapid movements of the ... | |
The Quiet Explosion: Object intermediate between normal supernovae and gamma-ray bursts found 16 hours ago | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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A European-led team of astronomers are providing hints that a recent supernova may not be as normal as initially thought. Instead, the star that exploded is now understood to have collapsed into a black hole, producing a ... | |
 Adult stem cells activated in mammalian brain 17 hours ago | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Adult stem cells originate in a different part of the brain than is commonly believed, and with proper stimulation they can produce new brain cells to replace those lost to disease or injury, ... | |
Nanoparticles Detect Telomerase Activity 15 hours ago | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Telomerase, an enzyme that prevents chromosomes from shortening when they divide, is widely suspected of playing a key role in making cancer cells immortal. Though researchers have developed a variety of methods for measuring ... | |
 Unknown insects found in 110-million-year-old amber in Spain 14 hours ago | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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The remains of several unknown insect species which became extinct long before dinosaurs stopped roaming the earth have been discovered in pieces of 110-million-year-old amber found in Spain, researchers said ... | |
 Hackers get hold of critical Internet flaw (Update) 12 hours ago | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Internet security researchers on Thursday warned that hackers have caught on to a "critical" flaw that lets them control traffic on the Internet. | |
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