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Analysis Begins on Deepest Soil Sample

Analysis Begins on Deepest Martian Soil Sample

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 02, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have begun to analyze a sample of soil delivered to NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's wet chemistry experiment from the deepest trench dug so far in the Martian arctic plains. Phoenix ...


NASA Mars Lander Digs Deeper as Third Month Nears End

Phoenix Mars Lander Digs Deeper as Third Month Nears End

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 26, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (15) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The next sample of Martian soil being grabbed for analysis is coming from a trench about three times deeper than any other trench NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has dug.


Chicken dumpling soup mix is recalled

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 10, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the recall of 99 boxes of Maggie & Mary's brand chicken dumpling soup mix due to a possible health risk.


Eating soup will help cut calories at meals

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 01, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Eating low-calorie soup before a meal can help cut back on how much food and calories you eat at the meal, a new Penn State study shows. Results show that when participants in the study ate a first course of soup before a ...


Phoenix Mars Lander Explores Site by Trenching

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 21, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander scientists and engineers are continuing to dig into the area around the lander with the spacecraft's robotic arm, looking for new materials to analyze and examining the soil and ice subsurface structure.


Phoenix Mission Conducting Extended Activities on Mars

Phoenix Mission Conducting Extended Activities on Mars

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 01, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (12) | comments 0

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, having completed its 90-day primary mission, is continuing its science collection activities. Science and engineering teams are looking forward to at least another month of Martian ...


Passover's matzoh ball soup may be good for your health

Passover's matzoh ball soup may be good for your health

Chemistry / Other

created Apr 02, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

With the Jewish holiday of Passover beginning at sundown next Wednesday, April 8, a staple of the traditional dinner -- chicken soup with matzoh balls -- may take on medicinal importance based on findings ...


Can you trust a robot to work safely with you in the kitchen?

Can you trust a robot to work safely with you in the kitchen?

Technology / Other

created May 14, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Can robots and humans work safely together? This issue will be addressed thanks to a research grant of over £1 million from the European Commission (EC).


Bottomless bowls are an Ig Nobel winner

Bottomless bowls are an Ig Nobel winner

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 12, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Last week, he was featured in Time magazine and USA Today. This week, he's been accorded yet another accolade: a 2007 Ig Nobel Award. All three recognize Cornell's indefatigable Brian Wansink for his quirky ...


'Grandma's penicillin' also may help high blood pressure

Chemistry /

created Oct 13, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 0

Chicken soup, that popular home remedy for the common cold sometimes known as "Grandma's Penicillin," may have a new role alongside medication and other medical measures in fighting high blood pressure, scientists in Japan ...


Great apes think ahead

Biology /

created Jun 18, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 2

Apes can plan for their future needs just as we humans can – by using self-control and imagining future events. Mathias and Helena Osvath's research, from Lunds University Cognitive Science in Sweden, is the first to provide ...


Harry and David chili mix soup is recalled

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 13, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the nationwide recall of 1,440 bags of Harry and David Hearthside Soups, Southwestern Chicken Chili Mix.


Cold and lonely: Does social exclusion literally feel cold?

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 15, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

When we hear somebody described as "frosty" or "cold", we automatically picture a person who is unfriendly and antisocial. There are numerous examples in our daily language of metaphors which make a connection between cold ...


NYC takes lead in setting next food target -- salt

NYC takes lead in setting next food target -- salt

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- First, it was a ban on artery-clogging trans fats. Then calories were posted on menus. Now the New York City health department is taking on salt. City officials are meeting with food makers and restaurants ...


Plate tectonics may take a break

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 03, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (14) | comments 2

Plate tectonics, the geologic process responsible for creating the Earth’s continents, mountain ranges, and ocean basins, may be an on-again, off-again affair. Scientists have assumed that the shifting of crustal plates has ...