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Neutron probe yields break in superconductor mystery
02-01-2007 · EurekAlert!U.S. and Canadian researchers report a major step toward solving a two-decades-old materials science mystery and progress toward the ultimate goal of engineering materials optimized for magnetic and electric properties.
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- Collaboration yields 'the right glasses' for observing mystery behavior in electrons
12-13-2007 · EurekAlert!
An international team of researchers has, for the first time, viewed on a nanoscale the formation of mysterious metallic puddles that facilitate the transition of an electrically insulating material into an electrically conducting one.
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- Something new under the Sun
01-30-2007 · EurekAlert!
That plants grow better if grown in a greenhouse in the correct climate is nothing new. Dutch researcher Rachel van Ooteghem has designed a control system for an improved solar greenhouse that yields more. In the new greenhouse, good climate control with sustainable energy resulted not only in an increased crop yield but also a lower gas bill.
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- Puzzling plankton yield secrets to role in evolution/global photosynthesis
04-30-2007 · EurekAlert!
The analysis of DNA sequences from tiny green algae have provided new insights into the mystery of how new species of plankton evolve -- and further highlights their critical role in managing the global cycling of carbon. These findings, by a group led by the DOE Joint Genome Institute; the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego; and the Pierre & Marie Curie University, were published this week in PNAS.
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- Tiny fish can yield big clues to Delaware River health
11-13-2007 · EurekAlert!
Where have all the bridle shiner gone? That's the mystery The Academy of Natural Sciences' fish scientists are trying to answer, and the outcome will shed light on the environmental health of the Upper Delaware River.Bridle shiner -- not easy to spot at less than two inches long -- once were abundant in the mid-Atlantic region, including small streams in Southeastern Pennsylvania. Their steady decline has prompted Pennsylvania to classify the fish as endangered.
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- Scientists solve mystery of how malaria hijacks red blood cells
01-15-2007 · EurekAlert!
Northwestern University researchers have uncovered how malaria parasites break into red blood cells and how to block the invading parasites with a commonly prescribed high-blood pressure medication. This opens the door for important new drugs to which the parasites are much less likely to become resistant. Malaria is surging worldwide because of drug resistance and the lack of an effective vaccine. Jamaica, which had eradicated the disease for 50 years, recently reported an outbreak.
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- Neanderthal genome sequencing yields surprising results and opens a new door to future studies
11-15-2006 · EurekAlert!
The veil of mystery surrounding our extinct hominid cousins, the Neanderthals, has been at least partially lifted to reveal surprising results. Scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) have sequenced genomic DNA from fossilized Neanderthal bones.
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- Simple diagnostic test detects genetic signs of lung cancer in a patient's sputum
01-18-2007 · EurekAlert!
DNA coughed up along with phlegm could point to lung cancer, say researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine who are developing an inexpensive and non-invasive gene probe to help diagnose early stage lung cancer in current and former smokers.
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- Light-based probe 'sees' early cancers in first tests on human tissue
03-26-2007 · EurekAlert!
In its first laboratory tests on human tissue, a light-based probe built by researchers at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering almost instantly detected the earliest signs of cancer in cells that line internal organs.
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- Explorers to Use New Robotic Vehicles to Hunt for Life and Hydrothermal Vents on Arctic Seafloor
06-21-2007 · Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)
Researchers will probe the Gakkel Ridge during expedition that begins on July 1.
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- Astronomers get their hands dirty as they lift the veil on galactic dust
10-12-2007 · EurekAlert!
There is more to a grain of dust than meets the eye, at least for astronomers as they attempt to probe deeper into distant galaxies. Until now dust has been a nuisance because it has obscured galaxies, and the stars within them, by absorbing the radiation they emit. But more recently dust has started to present opportunities because it emits radiation itself as a consequence of being heated up by nearby stars.
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