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Firstscience Science Fact of the Day - 9 Nov 2008
Each King in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great; Hearts - Charlemagne; and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.more
Science vs Religion
Since the beginning of civilisation, religion and science have constantly opposed one another, where scientific events that could not be explained at the time were labeled as religious. Before scientific understanding Throughout all ancient civilisationsmore
India gears up for International Year of Astronomy in 2009
New Delhi (PTI): Sky has always fascinated earthlings and 400 years of the first use of telescope by Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei certainly calls for a celebration. In a fitting tribute, the UN has declared 2009 as the International Year ofmore
Turning nuclear waste from liquid to solid
Nuclear power has advantages, but, if this method of making power is to be viable long term, discovering new solutions to radioactive waste disposal and other problems are critical. Otherwise nuclear power is unlikely to become mainstream. A team ofmore
WEBCAST: Student Maarten Kuivenhoven, Heritage Netherlands Reformed Congregation, Grand Rapids
Heritage Netherlands Reformed? Grand Rapids, Michigan email | web | 616-977-0599 | mp3 | blog | events | store | docsmore
Tiny Solar Cells Built To Power Microscopic Machines
ScienceDaily (Nov. 7, 2008) ? Some of the tiniest solar cells ever built have been successfully tested as a power source for even tinier microscopic machines. An article in the inaugural issue of the Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy (JRSE),more
LHC constitutes benches for next week
Staff Report LAHORE: Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice Sayed Zahid Hussain on Saturday constituted 10 division benches (DBs) and 22 single benches (SBs) for the principal seat at Lahore for the week starting from November 10. Two DBs each for the LHCmore
LHC commutes death sentence to life imprisonment
LAHORE: A division bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Saturday commuted the death sentence of Muhammad Sharif to life imprisonment. Earlier, Sharif, a resident of Ferozewala, was sentenced to death for murdering his former sister-in-law Farah Bibi.more
Pretty pink Play-Doh helps students connect with science: Davis Middle School classes use modeling clay and cameras to learn how cells divide.
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Tan introduced the translation of "gene" into Chinese and made several scientific breakthroughs.
BEIJING, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- Renowned Chinese geneticist Tan Jiazhen, who died of multiple organ dysfunction on Nov. 1 at age 99, was cremated on Saturday in Shanghai. Tan, the founding father of China's genetics, was an academician of the Chinese Academymore
Home solar energy panels
Home Solar Energy Panels? article provides information about the advantages of using thin film solar panels. One advantage discussed is that this technology does not require a roof attachment . Solar Panels That Work At Night The breakthrough informationmore
Organic chemists findings provide a new way to form compounds such as rubber
rubbers could be more ? well ? rubbery thanks to a novel new approach to polymer synthesis discovered by Texas Tech University organic chemists. In research slated for publication in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, the scientistsmore
Andre Geim receives Koerber European Science Award for graphene work
receives Krber European Science Award for graphene work Article Tools Research and General News Posted: Nov 8th, 2008 Posted: Nov 7th, 2008 Posted: Nov 7th, 2008 Posted: Nov 7th, 2008 Posted:more
Merger Paves the Way for Disruptive Quantum Dot Technology to Revolutionize Solar Industry
Quantum Dot-based solar cells. Source: Hague Corp./Solterra Renewable Technologies (press release) Comment Script Comments Name E-mail (Will not appear online) Comment To prevent automated Bots form spamming, please enter the text you see in the imagemore
Tiny solar cells power carbon nanotube sensor
solar cells ever built have been successfully tested as a power source for even tinier microscopic machines. An article in the inaugural issue of the Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy (JRSE), published by the American Institute of Physicsmore
LHC rejects bail application of former minister
By Our Correspondent LAHOREJUSTICE Tariq Shamim of the Lahore High Court has rejected pre-arrest bail application of former transport minister of Punjab, Pir Ghulam Mohiuddin Chishti, accused of injuring three people. The prosecution said that Chishtimore
Scientists Report New Research Findings On Genetic Therapies
? Thousands of the world's top scientists and clinicians in the human genetics field will convene to present their latest research at the 58th Annual Meeting of The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Novembermore
Costs plummeting for human genome sequencing
'You will have your genome sequenced, and I will have my genome sequenced,' predicted Rasmus Nielsen, an associate professor of biology at University of California Berkeley, who was a co-author of the Chinese genome study. The plummeting costs of genomemore
Paleontologists Doubt 'Dinosaur Dance Floor'
So the scientist who leads the University of Utah's geology department says she will team up with the skeptics for a follow-up study. 'Science is an evolving process where we seek the truth,' says Marjorie Chan, professor and chair of geology andmore
Thousands in Germany protest nuclear transport
German police were working to free three demonstrators who had chained themselves to railway tracks near the western city of Woerth, preventing the shipment from crossing from France into Germany. Some 300 farmers used tractors to block the main road tomore
Paleontologists Question 'Dinosaur Dance Floor' Theory
A highly publicized study claiming there were more than 1,000 previously unknown dinosaur tracks in the Arizona portion of Vermillion Cliffs National Monument turns out to be a bust. A group of paleontologists visited the northern Arizona wilderness sitemore
Volcanoes: Nature's Way of Letting Off Steam
Whether it's natural gas drilling unleashing a mud volcano that has engulfed 12 Indonesian villages or the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883 blanketing the world in enough particles to block out the sunshine and lower temperatures by more than a 1.8 degreesmore
Pool Of Distant Galaxies: Deepest Ultraviolet Image Of The Universe Yet
ScienceDaily (Nov. 8, 2008) ? This uniquely beautiful patchwork image, with its myriad of brightly coloured galaxies, shows the Chandra Deep Field South (CDF-S), arguably the most observed and best studied region in the entire sky. The CDF-S is one ofmore
Physicists Create BlackMax To Search For Extra Dimensions In The Universe
ScienceDaily (Nov. 7, 2008) ? A team of theoretical and experimental physicists, with participants from Case Western Reserve University, have designed a new black hole simulator called BlackMax to search for evidence that extra dimensions might existmore
Tiny Solar Cells for Future Soldiers
A recently-developed tiny solar array is sparking a very vivid interest in Army officials. The array is comprised of 20 small solar cells, each a little over a millimeter long. This early version of the solar device built from organic polymers is able tomore
Moon's Volcanic Activity Longer Than Previously Believed
Latest images indicate it ended about 1 billion years ago Adjust text size: Images recently sent from the Japanese Moon orbiter KAGUYA (Japanese for ?SELENE?) show that the volcanic activity on the far side of Earth's natural satellite may have endedmore
The US Is Running Low On Nuclear Residue Disposal Sites
The current burial site will soon reach its designated limit Adjust text size: Disposing of nuclear wastes is a tricky business, and countries wanting to get rid of the used fuel of their reactors must find appropriate places to do this, and must alsomore
Lipid-Soluble Smoke Particles Upregulate Vascular Smooth Muscle ETB Receptors via Activation of Mitogen-Activating Protein Kinases and NF-kappaB Pathways
* Division of Experimental Vascular Research, Institute of Clinical Science in Lund, Lund University, 221 84 Lund, Sweden Department of Clinical and Experimental Research, Glostrup Hospital, Copenhagen University, 2600 Glostrup, Copenhagen, Denmark 1 Tomore
Physical Sciences
This method offers advantages over related prior Ramanspectroscopy- based methods. A method of optical thermometry, now undergoing development, involves low-resolution measurement of the spectrum of spontaneous Raman scattering (SRS) from N2 and O2more
Physical Sciences
Only a few dozen molecular and radical species are included in calculations. A method of simplified computational modeling of oxidation of hydrocarbons is undergoing development. This is one of several developments needed to enable accurate computationalmore