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Model helps search for moon dust fountains
By Bill Steigerwald, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | 18 Jun 2010

BP uses Kevin Costner’s centrifuge machines to clean oil spill
16 Jun 2010
After seeing the effects of the Valdez spill in Alaska on TV, Costner put in $24 million of his money in 1995 to fund a team of scientists, including his brother Dan Costner, to develop a technology that could deal with huge oil spills

Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa returns from seven-year odyssey
14 Jun 2010
The mission nevertheless has proved enlightening as the spacecraft has shown that the 535-metre asteroid is not a solid body, but rather a lump of rubble resulting from an earlier asteroid collision
Nearby black hole is feeble and unpredictable
09 Jun 2010

Brown chemists report promising advance in fuel-cell technology
08 Jun 2010
A nanoparticle with a palladium core and an iron-platinum shell outperforms commercially available pure-platinum catalysts and lasts longer — a promising advance in fuel-cell technology, developed by chemists at Brown University

Brown chemists report promising advance in fuel-cell technology
08 Jun 2010
A nanoparticle with a palladium core and an iron-platinum shell outperforms commercially available pure-platinum catalysts and lasts longer — a promising advance in fuel-cell technology, developed by chemists at Brown University

Brown chemists report promising advance in fuel-cell technology
08 Jun 2010
A nanoparticle with a palladium core and an iron-platinum shell outperforms commercially available pure-platinum catalysts and lasts longer — a promising advance in fuel-cell technology, developed by chemists at Brown University
STEREO, SOHO spacecraft catch comet diving into sun
By By Robert Sanders, Media Relations, University of California, Berkeley | 26 May 2010
US scientists create synthetic living cell
21 May 2010

New microscopy technique reveals mechanics of blood cell membranes
21 May 2010
Thanks to an interdisciplinary team of researchers, scientists now have a more complete understanding of one of the human body’s most vital structures: the red blood cell.

Lessons from the brain: toward an intelligent molecular computer
20 May 2010
A team of researchers from Japan and Michigan Technological University has built a molecular computer using lessons learned from the human brain.

Cell phone sensors for toxins developed at UC San Diego
14 May 2010
A tiny silicon chip that works a bit like a nose may one day detect dangerous airborne chemicals and alert emergency responders through the cell phone network.

Suppressing activity of common intestinal bacteria reduces tumour growth
12 May 2010
A team of University of California's San Diego School of Medicine researchers has discovered that common intestinal bacteria appear to promote tumour growth in genetically susceptible mice, but that tumourigenesis can be suppressed if the mice are exposed to an inhibiting protein enzyme. By Scott LaFee

First human use of Catheter Robotics' "Amigo" at Leicester
11 May 2010
Dr André Ng of the University of Leicester has carried out the world's first heart rhythm treatment procedure using robotics
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