EU's e-waste rules affect global market
Jan 04, 2007 |
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Three European Union rules on e-waste -- used computer hardware -- likely will touch off a ripple effect beyond Europe, a U.S. researcher says.
Radiation therapy combo cures prostate cancer long-term
Jan 04, 2007 |
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Seventy-four percent of men treated with a combination of radiation seed implants and external beam radiation therapy for prostate cancer are cured of their disease 15 years following their treatment, according to a study ...
Study: Brain triggers hunger during fasts
Jan 04, 2007 |
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A series of events in the human brain apparently stimulate hunger during periods of fasting, researchers at the Yale University School of Medicine said.
Rocket's re-entry lights up two states
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 04, 2007 |
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A Russian rocket that broke up re-entering Earth's atmosphere over the United States had ferried a French telescope into orbit, U.S. military officials said.
Brain studies reveal the mechanisms of the voluntary control of visual attention
Jan 04, 2007 |
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Neuroscientists at Duke University have mapped the timing and sequence of neural activations that unfold in the brain when people focus their attention on specific locations in their visual fields.
Bottleneck in blood supply makes brain vulnerable to strokes
Jan 04, 2007 |
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A team of University of California, San Diego physicists and neuroscientists has discovered a bottleneck in the network of blood vessels in the brain that makes it vulnerable to strokes. The finding may explain the origin ...
Lunar Geminids
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 04, 2007 |
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Another meteor shower, another bunch of lunar impacts... "On Dec. 14, 2006, we observed at least five Geminid meteors hitting the Moon," reports Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office in Huntsville, ...
Smart lighting within reach
Jan 04, 2007 |
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It's not often that an engineer finds inspiration for their research at the ballet. But for University of Queensland graduate Aaron Tan, the theatre was the perfect place to start his search for smarter lighting design.
Feeling tired? You may be less likely to get hurt, researcher says
Jan 04, 2007 |
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Sleepiness and sleep deprivation have long been associated with an increased risk of injury. However, the results of a recent study by a University of Missouri-Columbia researcher suggest that this commonly accepted theory ...
Tech-check-tech
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Regulation set to take effect tomorrow, Jan. 5, 2007, is designed to reduce medication errors in California hospitals and free pharmacists for greater involvement in direct patient care rather than in non-discretionary (clerical) ...
Nanotech safety needs specific government risk research strategy and funding
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 04, 2007 |
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"Prioritizing nanotechnology risk research isn't rocket science," said Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies chief scientist Andrew Maynard. Dr. Maynard's remark is in his testimony today before the federal government's first ...
Youth are receiving shorter inpatient stays for mental health treatment
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In the most comprehensive study of its kind, researchers have found that the inpatient length of stay for youth with mental illness fell more than sixty percent between 1990 and 2000, despite concurrent increases in illness ...
Poll: Employers should pay for health care
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Nearly eight in 10 California voters favor employers either providing employees' health coverage or pay into a state fund that would, a poll said.
Mayo Clinic shows adding activity to video games fights obesity
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If playing video games makes kids less active -- and contributes to obesity -- why not create more video games that require activity? That's the question prompted by a Mayo Clinic research study published in the current issue ...
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