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Wired, 23.04.13 17:20 UTC

Radioactive Microbes Nuke Tumor Cells

Radioactive bacteria (red) destroy cancer cells from the inside. Credit: Claudia Gravekamp/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York Despite the advances made against many types of cancer, ...

cancer  also blasted cancer  radiation  Listeria  New York City  Claudia Gravekamp  +16 more

Daily Mail, 23.04.13 14:40 UTC

The breathtaking video that shows three years of activity on the sun in just three MINUTES

PUBLISHED: 14:02 GMT, 23 April 2013 | UPDATED: 14:19 GMT, 23 April 2013 Nasa has unveiled a breathtaking video that shows three years on activity on the solar surface condensed into three minutes. It ...

radiation  NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory  National Aeronautics and Space Administration 

The Register, 22.04.13 12:58 UTC

And they're off: Hubble, Herschel race for hot pics of space filly

Pics Orbiting space telescopes Herschel and Hubble have both snapped new infrared images of interstellar spectacle the Horsehead Nebula. The European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory ...

astronomer   radiation  European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory  National Aeronautics and Space Administration  European Space Agency  Williamina Fleming 

Daily Mail, 22.04.13 11:47 UTC

Sunbed users are MORE likely to be depressed about their looks

PUBLISHED: 11:28 GMT, 22 April 2013 | UPDATED: 11:43 GMT, 22 April 2013 Almost half of young adults who have used a sunbed are unhappy with their looks, according to new research. A survey carried ...

Southwestern University  Southwestern University  Caroline Cerny  Texas  manager at Cancer Research UK  radiation 

The Register, 21.04.13 23:33 UTC

Dark matter researchers think they've got a signal

Three Weakly Interacting Massive Particles – WIMPs to physicists – may not sound like many, but they're enough for excitement. That's because if they exist, WIMPs would solve the “dark ...

radiation  Minnesota's Soudan Mine  Minnesota 

Wired, 20.04.13 10:34 UTC

Wired Space Photo of the Day: The Farthest Supernova

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a star detonated with enough energy to briefly shine with an intrinsic brightness of one billion of our suns. The beacon of radiation arrived at Earth 10 ...

radiation  energy 

BBC World News, 18.04.13 06:06 UTC

Japan reports record annual trade deficit

Japan, the world's third-largest economy, has reported a record trade deficit for the year to 31 March.

United States  natural gas  electricity  radiation  USD  GBP  +3 more

BBC Sciences, 17.04.13 01:05 UTC

Applicants wanted for a one way ticket to Mars

Want to go to Mars? Dutch organisation Mars One says it will open applications imminently. It would be a one-way trip, and the company hopes to build a community of settlers on the planet.

Arizona  Lunar Partnership  British Broadcasting Corporation  Planetary Laboratory  co-founder   Columbus  +10 more

Wired, 16.04.13 18:53 UTC

Nano-Suit Protects Bugs From Space-Like Vacuums

A healthy, nano-suited northern house mosquito larva wiggles in a scanning electron microscope vacuum. Image: Yasuharu Takaku et al./PNAS Put a fruit fly larva in a spacelike vacuum, and the results ...

radiation  space travel technology  space travel technology  Hamamatsu University School of Medicine in Japan  Yasuharu Takaku  Lynn Rothschild 

Daily Mail, 16.04.13 16:15 UTC

'These runners just finished and now they don't have legs': Witnesses recount war zone at end of Boston Marathon as bombs left race course littered with limbs of 25-30 people

PUBLISHED: 20:28 GMT, 15 April 2013 | UPDATED: 16:06 GMT, 16 April 2013 Witnesses have described how twin bomb blasts turned the 26th mile of the Boston Marathon into a war zone, littering the final ...

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center  Boston police  Women's Hospital  Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center  Massachusetts General Hospital  Charlesmark Hotel  +31 more
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