Search results for air fresheners:

results timeline

Refine search   


New algorithms for computerized, large-scale surveillance

New algorithms for computerized, large-scale surveillance

Technology / Engineering

created 17 hours ago | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A recent AFOSR-funded technology should enable the Air Force to achieve advances in object and target detection technology by using sophisticated algebraic theories called groups, rings and fields.


Australia's Parliament defeats global warming bill

Space & Earth / Environment

created 18 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 5

(AP) -- Australia's plans for an emissions trading system to combat global warming were scuttled Wednesday in Parliament, handing a defeat to a government that had hoped to set an example at international climate change ...


Intensive fungicide use may lead to azole resistance in humans

Intensive fungicide use may lead to azole resistance in humans

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists from the Netherlands, including Gert Kema of Plant Research International, published an article in the Lancet Infectious Diseases about the relationship between fungic ...


iPhones are musical instruments in new course and ensemble (w/ Video)

iPhones are musical instruments in new course and ensemble (w/ Video)

Technology / Hi Tech

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- iPhones are being used as musical instruments in a new course at the University of Michigan.


Bone Marrow Stem Cells May Prevent Chronic Lung Disease

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston have discovered a possible way to protect the fragile lungs of premature babies by using stem cells harvested from bone marrow. In experiments on laboratory mice, ...


WISE Snug in Its Nose Cone

WISE Snug in Its Nose Cone; Launch Set for Dec. 9

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer has been wrapped in the outer nose cone, or "fairing," that will protect it during its scheduled Dec. 9 launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.


Air Force Center of Excellence awarded in nanostructures and improved cognition

Air Force Center of Excellence awarded in nanostructures and improved cognition

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The Georgia Institute of Technology has been awarded a U.S. Air Force Center of Excellence to design nanostructures for energy harvesting and adaptive materials, and to develop tools to optimize critical cognitive ...


Dutch PhD student develops device to combat noise

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 10

Johan Wesselink of the University of Twente, The Netherlands, has developed a device to actively combat noise nuisance. This invention curtails sound waves and vibrations by producing anti-noise. The researcher is confident ...


TacSat-4 spacecraft complete and awaiting launch

TacSat-4 spacecraft complete and awaiting launch

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) engineers have completed all environmental and performance testing on the TacSat-4 COMMx payload. This completes the entire TacSat-4 spacecraft as the spacecraft bus was completed ...


Typhoon Nida's cloud tops dropping as it zigzags in wind shear

Typhoon Nida's cloud tops dropping as it zigzags in wind shear

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Nida is battling to keep its typhoon strength in the Western Pacific Ocean as wind shear continues to tear at the storm and weaken it. NASA's CloudSat satellite noticed that Nida's cloud tops are not as high ...


More than 1,000 patients in US admitted annually for aviation-related injuries

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The first ever published study of aviation-related injuries and deaths in the U.S. finds that more than 1,013 patients are admitted to U.S. hospitals with aviation-related injuries annually, and that 753 aviation-deaths occur ...


First comprehensive review of the state of Antarctica's climate

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (11) | comments 4

The first comprehensive review of the state of Antarctica's climate and its relationship to the global climate system is published this week by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). The review - Antarctic ...


CPR is successful without mouth-to-mouth, but not without oxygen

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

People can survive cardiac arrest if they receive only chest compressions during attempts to revive them - as advised by the current American Heart Association guidelines. But they cannot survive without access to oxygen ...


GOES-14 (O) moving into on-orbit storage around the Earth

GOES-14 (O) moving into on-orbit storage around the Earth

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite named GOES-14, is being placed in on-orbit storage this month to await its call to duty.


Naked mole rats may hold clues to surviving stroke

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Blind, nearly hairless, and looking something like toothy, plump, pink fingers, naked mole rats may rank among nature's most maligned creatures, but their unusual physiology endears them to scientists.