Follow live Jules Verne ATV's first attempt to dock with the International Space Station
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
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After several days spent in a parking orbit 2000 km ahead of the ISS, Jules Verne ATV is now ready to join up with the International Space Station. This first docking attempt can be followed live on 3 April ...
Engineer Finds Ways to Improve U.S. Rail Passenger Service and Reduce Freight Delays
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"I think I can... I think I can..." is a refrain most will recognize as the optimistic, self-encouraging words of "The Little Engine That Could." The children's book protagonist is a determined train engine who succeeds in ...
Software developed by Boston College lab delivers speed and accuracy to genome research
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It took a global corps of scientists approximately $500 million and 13 years to identify the more than 35,000 genes of the human genome. Five years later, Boston College Biologist Gabor Marth and his research team have developed ...
Preschool kids do better when they talk to themselves, research shows
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 28, 2008 |
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Parents should not worry when their pre-schoolers talk to themselves; in fact, they should encourage it, says Adam Winsler, an associate professor of psychology at George Mason University. His recent study published in Early Ch ...
Mysterious fevers of unknown origin: Could surgery be a cure?
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A child spikes a high fever, sometimes as high as 104 or 105 degrees, and sometimes causing seizures. She’s rushed to the emergency room, the hospital runs test after test, specialists are brought in, but no explanation is ...
Actual use of asthma medications contradicts guidelines
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A study has found only 16% of the 352,082 Australians who filled a prescription for asthma preventer medications for the first time during the period July 2004 to June 2005, went on to use them regularly.
China's Top Priorities in 2008: Reduce Economic Overheating and Curb Inflation
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Concerned about their country’s unprecedented high growth performance, the Chinese Government has declared reducing economic overheating and curbing inflation as its top priorities for 2008.
Are you what you eat? New study of body weight change says maybe not
Mar 28, 2008 |
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If identical twins eat and exercise equally, must they have the same body weight? By analyzing the fundamental equations of body weight change, NIH investigators Carson Chow and Kevin Hall find that identical twins with identical ...
Rectal artemisinins rapidly eliminate malarial parasites
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Artemisinin-based suppositories can help ‘buy time’ for malaria patients who face a delay in accessing effective, injectable antimalarials, according to research published in the online open access journal BMC Infectious Di ...
Decreased sexual satisfaction is not associated with cardiovascular disease in postmenopausal women
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Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) and collaborators nationwide have found that decreased sexual satisfaction in postmenopausal women, is not clearly associated with ...
iPods and similar devices found not to affect pacemaker function
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Last May, a widely reported study concluded that errant electronic noise from iPods can cause implantable cardiac pacemakers to malfunction. This just didn’t sound right to the cardiac electrophysiologists at Children’s Hospital ...
Being born bottom first is inherited
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A baby is twice as likely to be born bottom first if either or both the parents were themselves breech deliveries, according to a study published ahead of print on bmj.com. The results suggest genes are a contributing factor.
Researchers use high tech in mold watermark to protect plastic products from piracy
Mar 28, 2008 |
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Researchers at WMG at the University of Warwick have devised a high tech way to add Anti-counterfeiting to plastic products as they are created in the moulding process. The process could cost less than one ...
Indoor tanning lobby says tanning is good
Mar 28, 2008 |
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The Indoor Tanning Association has initiated a media campaign that claims sun and tanning beds have been "demonized' by special interests.
The complexities of genetic susceptibility to tuberculosis revealed
Mar 28, 2008 |
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Researchers working in Vietnam have identified a genetic variant that predisposes people to developing a lethal form of tuberculosis (TB), tuberculous meningitis, if they are infected with a strain of TB known as the Beijing ...
