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Penn State Advanced Vehicle Team unveils its new set of wheels

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Penn State engineering students recently took delivery of a 2009 Saturn Vue that will be used in an advanced vehicle technology engineering contest sponsored by the Department of Energy and General ...


NY officials rescind mandatory H1N1 flu shot order (AP)

NY officials rescind mandatory H1N1 flu shot order

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- New York state health officials have suspended a ruling that would have forced health care workers across the state to get vaccinated against the swine flu by the end of November or risk losing their ...


A look at public policies and motorcycle safety in the US

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

One of the joys of riding a motorcycle is the freedom that comes with that form of travel. However the absence of physical barriers to protect riders puts motorcyclists at a higher risk of injury than other motorists. Motorcycle ...


A male flanged orangutan hangs from a tree in Malaysian Borneo's Sabah State

Malaysia tracks orangutans with implants

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Malaysian wildlife authorities are using electronic implants to keep track of orangutans in a bid to protect the endangered apes after they are freed into the wild, an official said Tuesday.


Officials: Swine flu confirmed in Iowa cat

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(AP) -- The swine flu virus has been confirmed in a cat treated at the Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine.


CDC Confirms Four New Cases of Oseltamivir (Tamiflu)-Resistant H1N1

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tests performed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) at the request of infectious disease experts at Duke University Medical Center have confirmed this week that isolates from four patients with H1N1 influenza ...


Kan., Okla. conduct joint livestock disease drill

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Trucks that could be hauling livestock along the Kansas and Oklahoma border were detained and their drivers questioned Thursday, during a drill aimed at protecting the nation's food supply from foot-and-mouth disease.


National anti-gun violence program largely successful, study finds

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Project Safe Neighborhoods - a community-based policing effort launched in 2001 - has been largely successful in its goal of reducing violent crime, according to an analysis by Michigan State University, the national research ...


Feds to issue new medical marijuana policy (AP)

Feds to stop prosecuting medical marijuana users (Update)

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 2

(AP) -- Pot-smoking patients or their sanctioned suppliers should not be targeted for federal prosecution in states that allow medical marijuana, prosecutors were told Monday in a new policy memo issued by ...


Ted Turner gets OK for Yellowstone bison on ranch (AP)

Ted Turner gets OK for Yellowstone bison on ranch

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- The head of Montana's wildlife agency has given preliminary approval to a plan calling for 74 bison from Yellowstone National Park to go to billionaire Ted Turner's private ranch.


NREL Uncovers Clean Energy Leaders State by State

NREL Uncovers Clean Energy Leaders State by State

Technology / Energy

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- That California and Texas still lead the United States in generating renewable energy probably is no surprise. But, NREL's 2009 State of the States report shows that several smaller states ...


Study shows how to lower costs, waiting times for colonoscopies

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Colorectal cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States, leading to over 50,000 fatalities every year. But it can be prevented with early screening using a procedure called a colonoscopy. Now researchers ...


Small classes have long-term benefit for all students, research says

Small classes have long-term benefit for all students, research says

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Providing small classes for at least several consecutive grades starting in early elementary school gives students the best chance to succeed in later grades, according to groundbreaking new research from ...


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Penn State researchers promote pollinator-friendly native gardens

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Across the country, pollinators such as honeybees and hummingbirds are declining due to habitat loss, diseases such as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), pests and excessive pesticide use. Penn ...


MSU research may lead to new ways to control honeybee parasite

New research may lead to new ways to control honeybee parasite

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ground-breaking discoveries by Michigan State University researchers could help protect honeybees from deadly parasites that have devastated commercial colonies.