Science news articles about 'bullets'

Corrosion caused by sweat allows fingerprints to be detected on bullets after they have been fired

Researchers have discovered what powers brilliant outbursts of Northern Lights: gigantic plasma bullets launched toward Earth by explosions 1/3rd of the way to the Moon.

Pollen makes an ideal 'identity tag' for bullets, having evolved an extraordinary stickiness and resilience

... the ability of the viruses to target and kill cancer cells." The researchers utilize a tiny, bullet-shaped insect rhabdovirus known as VSV, chosen specifically for its inability to infect normal ...

... -eating predators to fight a superweed spreading throughout Britain should not be seen as a 'magic bullet', says a world expert on Japanese knotweed at the University of Leicester. Dr John Bailey of ...

Plans to introduce plant-eating predators to fight a superweed spreading throughout Britain should not be seen as a 'magic bullet', says a world expert on Japanese knotweed.

BISMARCK, N.D., Nov. 6 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say people who eat wild game killed by lead bullets might have higher blood levels of lead than people who don't eat such meat.

TOKYO, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- Japanese researchers say they've developed a new, universal flu vaccine, offering a possible silver bullet against new strains of the bug.

... insulin treatment for life to sulfonylurea drugs that block this channel. It's potentially a magic bullet treatment," said Colin Nichols of Washington University School of Medicine. The researchers ...

... Centre, for help. Bond again successfully used a pioneering technique (Forensic science's magic bullet, 28 August 2008) to recover fingerprints from shell casings.Dorman is the latest American visitor ...

... plasma jet has turned out to be a train of tiny, high-velocity plasma bullets. Using a camera with an exposure time of a few nanoseconds, researchers have further investigated the plasma bullets, and ...

... peptide that binds to bacteria and stops them making toxins, produced a "magic bullet" that was highly effective at killing the superbug, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Miss Linda ...

Doctors in southwest China have successfully removed a bullet from a woman's head 42 years after she was shot, putting an end to decades of increasingly unbearable pain, state media said Friday.

... Paulter developed a ballistic chronograph—an instrument used to measure of the velocity of a fired bullet—that is 20 times more precise than a typical manufacturer-provided chronograph. The new ...

... on a new type of body armor made from cement. The new vests will combine super-strong cement with recycled carbon fibre materials to make a material tough enough to withstand most types of bullets.