Getting a good night's sleep is the biggest problem for women entering the menopause
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Sleep disruption is the most common and severe symptom reported by middle-aged women when their periods change and they start moving into the menopause, according to a study in the April issue of the UK-based Journal of Cl ...
New hazard estimates could downplay quake dangers
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 16, 2008 |
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The dangers posed by a major earthquake in the New Madrid and Charleston, South Carolina zones in the Midwestern and Southern parts of the United States may be noticeably lower than current estimates if seismologists adjust ...
Alzheimer's starts earlier for heavy drinkers, smokers
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Heavy drinkers and heavy smokers develop Alzheimer’s disease years earlier than people with Alzheimer’s who do not drink or smoke heavily, according to research that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology ...
New study predicts where corals can thrive
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The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth have developed a new scientific model that accurately maps where coral reefs are in the most trouble and identifies ...
Sandia licenses its improved flash-bang technology
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Sandia National Laboratories recently licensed its safer fuel air diversionary device technology to Defense Technology Corporation of America, located in Casper, Wyo.
Naftidrofuryl can reduce leg pain
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Patients with pain caused by narrowed arteries in their legs have 37% more pain-free walking if they take naftidrofuryl (200mg three times a day) than those taking placebos, a Cochrane Review has found. In addition, 55% of ...
Hope Takes Flight on Shuttle Discovery
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
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The cargo aboard the space shuttle Discovery on mission STS-124 already has traveled halfway around Earth, more than 10,000 miles over land and sea. It’s now ready for the culmination of its 23-year journey ...
U of M researchers identify process that may help treat Parkinson's, spinal cord injuries
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A new discovery by University of Minnesota researchers may lead to a better understanding of how the spinal cord controls how people walk. These insights could help lead to treatments for central nervous system maladies such ...
Model predicts motorway journey time reliability
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For car users and drivers of freight vehicles on motorways, being able to rely on the time taken to complete a journey is as important as the actual duration of the trip itself. For that reason the Ministry of Transport, ...
Trade pessimism grows: global survey
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A global survey of trade experts has found a marked increase in pessimism on the outcome of current world trade negotiations.
Mars technology on balloon to study the atmosphere
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 16, 2008 |
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“From Mars to the Earth and back” is the theme when the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF), the Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) and University of Bern in Switzerland build and launch a mass spectrometer ...
Security from chaos
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There’s safety (and security) in numbers … especially when those numbers are random. That’s the lesson learned from a DHS-sponsored research project out of the University of Southern California (USC). The ...
Delayed cord clamping
Apr 16, 2008 |
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Should you clamp the umbilical cord within a minute of birth or wait two or three minutes?
Early exposure to common weed killer impairs amphibian development
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Tadpoles develop deformed hearts and impaired kidneys and digestive systems when exposed to the widely used herbicide atrazine in their early stages of life, according to research by Tufts University biologists.
Gene therapy reduces cocaine use in rats
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Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have shown that increasing the brain level of receptors for dopamine, a pleasure-related chemical, can reduce use of cocaine by 75 percent in rats ...
