(PhysOrg.com) -- While young women's educational and career opportunities have skyrocketed over the past two decades, their opportunities for stable, long-term relationships have declined, according to new research from sociologists ...
Social Sciences
Jan 18, 2011
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(AP) -- It would be easier to gauge Apple CEO Steve Jobs' current medical problems if he had said more about the ones he has faced in the past.
Business
Jan 18, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- On the heels of last week's federal recommendations to help prevent another BP oil spill disaster, a University of Michigan researcher says the tragedy has come close to acting as a catalyst for deeper change ...
Environment
Jan 18, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Paul Mahaffy, the scientist in charge of the largest instrument on NASA's next Mars rover, watched through glass as clean-room workers installed it into the rover.
Space Exploration
Jan 18, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- UCI Professor Diane O'Dowd and others argue science teaching is not properly valued.
Other
Jan 18, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have coaxed polymers to braid themselves into wispy nanoscale ropes that approach the structural complexity ...
Nanomaterials
Jan 18, 2011
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Atrazine is one of the most widely used herbicides in North American corn production, but heated controversy remains over the 50-plus-year-old product. Several other herbicides are used in corn production, and a host of ...
Ecology
Jan 18, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- There's a lot more to the atmosphere than air. With every breath, we inhale a nearly invisible mish mash of tiny particles known as aerosols. From droplets of water and trace gases like sulfuric acid to specks ...
Materials Science
Jan 18, 2011
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This image by the Hubble Space Telescope shows a dramatic view of the spiral galaxy M51, dubbed the Whirlpool Galaxy.
Space Exploration
Jan 18, 2011
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While every cell of an organism contains the same genes only a proportion are expressed in any tissue at a given stage in development. Knowing the extent of gene transcription is valuable and a team of European researchers ...
Biotechnology
Jan 18, 2011
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