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“Almost 40% of small and midsize public biotechnology companies in the U.S. are in danger of running out of cash within a year and government help is needed to encourage investment, industry leaders say.
“We’re at the most difficult time in the history of our industry,” says James Greenwood, chief executive of the Biotechnology Industry Organization.
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Astronomers were able to capture, for the first time ever, planets that were outside the solar system.
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The long and short of this story is scientists can now grow diamonds that are bigger and better than natural ones. If you’d like to read about the scientific processes used for this feat, I suggest you read this. Otherwise, just sit back and wait for diamond prices to drop dramatically.
According to Popular Mechanics:
The Phoenix Mars Mission has been a shining success for NASA. Not only did the craft reach Mars and land successfully, it also found ice in the martian soil and saw snow in the sky. But the Phoenix is now racing against time to complete more of its groundbreaking research before the […]
Scientists at the University of Calgary have designed a way to capture carbon dioxide from the air. This technology will be especially important in relation to emissions from airplanes and cars. Read more…
Our brains contain their own navigation system much like satellite navigation, with in-built maps, grids and compasses, neuroscientist Dr Hugo Spiers told the BA Festival of Science at the University of Liverpool today.
The brain’s navigation mechanism resides in an area know as the hippocampus, which is responsible for learning and memory. Studies, using London cab […]
It’s new and clever, ScienceStage.com is a new-style online portal for science, academic teaching and practice, bridging significant gaps in scientific learning and a great research tool for students just returning to school or for people who are just eager to learn more.
“ScienceStage.com is a virtual conference room, lecture hall, laboratory, library and meeting venue […]
Teams of scientists involved around the world celebrated with champagne as one of the most ambitious experiments ever conceived got successfully underway, with protons being fired around a 27-kilometer (17-mile) tunnel deep beneath the border of France and Switzerland in an attempt to unlock the secrets of the universe.
The Large Hadron Collider — a $9 […]
Here is a fact that is generally agreed on by scientists: the sun is constantly growing and expanding. “Hey great, more beach days,” you may think. Well in the future (we’re talking several billions of years, but still) this growth could cause the sun to obliterate the earth, making it an uninhabitable, hot, brown mass […]
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Posted By: rebecca | Sep 8th
For decades, sudden brightenings of auroras—also called the northern and southern lights—have puzzled scientists.
Such events have been linked to so-called geomagnetic substorms, disturbances in the outer atmosphere that create “power surges” in the polar lights. But what triggers these substorms has remained a mystery.
The research not only could help scientists predict dramatic sky shows, but […]