New technology is set to play a major part in clearing dangerous clouds of debris hurtling around the Earth’s lower orbit. Scientists have devised a miniature satellite or nanosatellite fitted with a solar sail. “CubeSail” is a device which can be fitted to satellites or launch vehicle upper stages that are sent into orbit and [...]
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The popular dietary supplement vitamin E, loaded into special medicated contact lenses, can keep glaucoma medicine near the eye — where it can treat that common disease — almost 100 times longer than possible with current commercial lenses, scientists report.
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Researchers in the UK are working on a project that could take carbon dioxide from the air and turn it into car fuel. The project aims to develop porous materials that can absorb the gas that causes global warming and convert it into chemicals that can be used to make car fuel or plastics in [...]
New research finds that there is an inverse association between the level of supine (lying face up) systolic blood pressure measured on admission to an intensive care unit for acute chest pain and risk of death at one year, with those patients having high systolic blood pressure having a better prognosis after a year.
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Naval Research Laboratory, which has been involved in pioneering work involving chemical vapor deposition of diamond and the use of diamond materials in advanced technologies relevant to the Department of Defense since 1987, has recently undertaken some new projects in diamond research. In collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution Museum of Natural History, NRL researchers have [...]
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Young adults, a generally healthy population, are increasingly flocking to emergency departments instead of outpatient clinics for medical treatment.
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In a newly published study, scientists have shown for the first time that the same molecular mechanisms that drive people into drug addiction are behind the compulsion to overeat, pushing people into obesity.
Scientists studying cardiac development in mouse embryos have identified the source of cells that become the coronary arteries — the vessels that deliver blood to nourish the continuously pumping heart muscle.
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The microbial ecosystem inside the carnivorous pitcher plant is vastly more diverse than previously thought, according to new research.
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Like a skittish driver slamming the brakes, a special class of T cells may be limiting the effectiveness of therapeutic vaccines for HIV by slowing the immune system response too soon, report health science researchers. Their study may help researchers improve the efficacy of such vaccines by devising methods to circumvent the braking mechanism of [...]
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