Archive: 11/25/2008
Radiation before surgery improves pancreatic cancer outcomes
Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest and most difficult to treat cancers. Now, in a major step forward, researchers at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center have shown that administering radiation ...
Nov 25, 2008 |
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Do you know you're having a stroke?
A Mayo Clinic study shows a majority of stroke patients don't think they're having a stroke -- and as a result -- delay seeking treatment until their condition worsens. The findings appear in the current issue of Emergency Me ...
Nov 25, 2008 |
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Disclosure of medication can save a patient's life
Do you regularly take aspirin or antiplatelet medications? Do you know whether or not these drugs should be stopped before dental procedures or surgeries? According to a study published in the May/June issue of General De ...
Nov 25, 2008 |
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Scientists find more evidence the aging brain is easily distracted
Canadian researchers have found more evidence that older adults aren't able to filter out distracting information as well as younger adults.
Nov 25, 2008 |
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Saying 'Cheese' for More Effective Border Security
Facial recognition systems perform some very challenging tasks such as checking an individual’s photo against a database of known or suspected criminals. The task can become nearly impossible when the systems ...
Nov 25, 2008 |
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Adiponectin is a metabolic link between obesity and bone mineral density
Researchers at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine, Toronto, Canada, have discovered that adiponectin, a protein secreted from adipocytes, is a metabolic link that can explain, in part, the known positive relationship ...
Nov 25, 2008 |
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Spider Payload on Space Station Becomes a Media Hit, Internet Music Video
(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Colorado at Boulder payload of web-spinning spiders and wannabe butterflies delivered to the International Space Station by the space shuttle Endeavour Nov. 14 has generated ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 25, 2008 |
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Phoenix Lander Winds Up Its Astonishing Summer On Mars
(PhysOrg.com) -- Mars has slipped far enough behind the sun today that signals from Mars-orbiting spacecraft are effectively blocked until mid-December. This solar conjunction happens every two years.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 25, 2008 |
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Agent-based computer models could anticipate future economic crisis
As the stock market continues its dive, economists and business columnists have spilled a lot of ink assigning responsibility for the ongoing financial calamity. While hindsight might be clear as day, researchers at the U.S. ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Nov 25, 2008 |
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Rescue Robot Exercise Brings Together Robots, Developers, First Responders
The National Institute of Standards and Technology held a rescue robot exercise in Texas last week in which about three dozen robots were tested by developers and first responders in order to develop a standard ...
Nov 25, 2008 |
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IBM Reveals Five Innovations That Will Change Our Lives in the Next Five Years
(PhysOrg.com) -- Unveiled today, the third annual "IBM Next Five in Five" is a list of innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live and play over the next five years.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Nov 25, 2008 |
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Strong, lightweight green material could replace concrete, but contains no cement
(PhysOrg.com) -- Each year, coal-burning power plants, steel factories and similar facilities in the United States produce more than 125 million tons of waste, much of it fly ash and bottom ash left over from ...
Nov 25, 2008 |
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Neutron Researchers Discover Widely Sought Property in Magnetic Semiconductor
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated for the first time the existence of a key magnetic—as opposed to electronic—property of specially ...
Nov 25, 2008 |
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How to improve email communication: Developing strategies to mimic face-to-face interactions
In a new article in the current issue of American Journal of Sociology authors Daniel A. Menchik and Xiaoli Tian (both of the University of Chicago) study how we use emoticons, subject lines, and signatures to define how we ...
Nov 25, 2008 |
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A Best Friend of Humanity: The African Giant Pouched Rat
(PhysOrg.com) -- The African Giant Pouched Rats, Cricetomys gambianus have been trained to methodically sniff out land mines in war-torn regions of Africa. Apopo International based in Antwerp, Belgium is ...
Nov 25, 2008 |
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