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Articles posted in April 2008

New Molecule Could Be Key To Anti-heart Attack Drug

Start discussionYessi Pratiwi on April 30th, 2008

In the United States and many other industrialized countries, heart disease is the leading cause of death. It is mentioned in Encarta that according to the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than 710,000 people in the United States die of heart disease each year.
Fortunately, new research by Rockefeller University scientists […]

Making Environmentally Friendly Plastics

Start discussionYessi Pratiwi on April 28th, 2008

Bioavailable plastics known contain substances that can be absorbed by living systems during their normal physiological functions.
But recently, it was revealed in ScienceDaily, that if research at Missouri University of Science and Technology is successful, the plastic bottles of the future could literally disappear within four months of being discarded.

By combining […]

Future Space Travel In Solar System : Electric Solar Wind Sail

Start discussionYessi Pratiwi on April 22nd, 2008

First thing come up into our mind when we’re talking about solar system maybe the Sun and everything that orbits the Sun, including the planets and their satellites; the dwarf planets, asteroids, Kuiper Belt Objects, and comets; and interplanetary dust and gas.
If one could look down on the solar system from far above the North […]

‘Awoke From Slumber’ 300 Years Ago, a Milky Way’s Giant Black Hole

Start discussionYessi Pratiwi on April 18th, 2008

ScienceDaily reported, a team of Japanese astronomers has discovered that our galaxy’items’ => 4,s central black hole let loose a powerful flare three centuries ago by using NASA, Japanese, and European X-ray satellites.
This finding helps resolve a long-standing mystery: why is the Milky Way’items’ => 4,s black hole so quiescent? Black Hole is an extremely […]

The Discovery of Better Urine Test To Detects Prostate Cancer

Start discussionYessi Pratiwi on April 18th, 2008

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in elderly men and the second most common cause of cancer-related death in men. It may be detected by digital rectal examination, but recently, researchers at the University of Michigan developed an experimental biomarker test that more accurately detects prostate cancer than any other screening method currently in […]

Engineers Make First ‘Active Matrix’ Display Using Nanowires, Research Reported

One replyYessi Pratiwi on April 13th, 2008

As a step toward realizing applications such as e-paper, flexible color monitors and “heads-up” displays in car windshields, engineers have created the first “active matrix” display using a new class of transparent transistors and circuits.
It was mentioned in ScienceDaily that, the transistors are made of “nanowires,” a tiny cylindrical structures as small as 20 nanometers, […]

Oldest Known Gold Artifacts Discovered

Start discussionYessi Pratiwi on April 13th, 2008

It was revealed in ScienceDaily that a team of scientists led by an archaeologist from The University of Arizona has unearthed the oldest collection gold artifacts found in the Americas.
Mark Aldenderfer, a professor of anthropology at the UA, and his team excavated a site in the Peruvian Andes of South America, near Lake Titicaca. The […]

Great Advantages of Hybrid Car

One replyYessi Pratiwi on April 4th, 2008

Hybrid cars are presently considered as very beneficial to the preservation of the environment. A hybrid car combines an electric motor and gasoline engine to provide sufficient power to the vehicle with least fuel usage and fewer emissions. They are also far more fuel-efficient than purely gas-powered cars, and far more practical for everyday […]

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