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Issue #22 of X-factors the crystallography webzine from David Bradley Science Writers and Wiley is out now featuring the latest on lighting up nanowires, cellular moves, and a bioremedy for asbestos problems. Could Enceladus's Icy Plumes Pose A Hazard To Cassini?
On 12th March 2008, Cassini will swing by Saturn's moon Enceladus at an altitude of less than 100 kilometres at the point of closest approach. This will give scientists and unprecedented opportunity to study the plumes of water vapour emanating from the "tiger stripe"fissures near the moon's south pole, but it has also given the Cassini team pause for thought as to whether ice grains lofted by the jets could damage the spacecraft. Performance enhancing steroids
Most sports stars know that injecting steroids to boost performance is plain stupid. But, some do it anyway, because the potential gains, they reason, outweigh the risks to health and the chances of being stripped of glory are much smaller than their chances of winning the medal without them.Not all steroids are purely about enhancement. [...] Cell phone records used to predict spread of malaria
Researchers at work on a malaria elimination study in Africa have become the first to predict the spread of the disease using cell phone records. Permanent Deep-sea Seismic Sensors
A submarine seismic sensor was recently set in place at 2400 m depth, off Toulon (France). The instrument was attached to a neutrino telescope developed by the international scientific programme Antares . For the first time in Europe, this sensor can send real-time deep-sea seismic activity data recorded for the region and for the whole world. High-performance Energy Storage
North Carolina State University physicists have recently deduced a way to improve high-energy-density capacitors so that they can store up to seven times as much energy per unit volume than the common capacitor. Film Of The Heavens: Project To Create Revolutionary Map And First Mov
Astronomers from the Max-Planck-Institutes for Astronomy in Heidelberg and for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching have joined with colleagues world-wide to form a consortium that will exploit a powerful new survey telescope on Haleakala on the island of Maui (Hawaii). This telescope will map repeatedly much of the entire sky, hence creating a high color-map and the first digital "movie"of the heavens, mapping changes in the sky with time. French Clay Can Kill MRSA And 'Flesh-Eating'Bacteria
French clay that kills several kinds of disease-causing bacteria is at the forefront of new research into age-old, nearly forgotten, but surprisingly potent cures. Among the malevolent bacteria that a French clay has been shown to fight is a 'flesh-eating'bug on the rise in Africa and the germ called MRSA, which was blamed for the recent deaths of two children in Virginia and Mississippi. Immigrant Patients Less Likely To Report Family History Of Cancer
Immigrants in the United States may be less likely to report a family history of cancer, which may lead to inadequate screening and cancer prevention strategies according to a new study. Study Finds Tarceva Benefits Older Lung Cancer Patients
The tyrosine kinase inhibitor erlotinib (TarcevaŽ) showed encouraging activity with relatively tolerable side effects in elderly, previously untreated patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), reports a team led by investigators from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
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