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 Australian climate report like 'disaster novel': ministerHeatwaves, less rain and increased drought are the likely prospect for Australia, according to a new report on climate change which the agriculture minister said read like a "disaster novel". |
 Some psych patients wait days in hospital ERs(AP) -- When staffers at a Brooklyn hospital spotted a middle-aged woman lying face-down on a waiting room floor last month, it hardly seemed like cause for alarm. |
 Rubber 'snake' could help wave power get a bite of the energy marketA device consisting of a giant rubber tube may hold the key to producing affordable electricity from the energy in sea waves. |
Instances of mass die-offs in wild lions precipitated by extreme climate changeAn international research team has published the first clear example of how climate extremes can create conditions in which diseases that are normally tolerated singly may converge and bring about mass die-offs in wildlife. |
Hot future shock: Heat wave temperatures to soar(AP) -- During the European heat wave of 2003 that killed tens of thousands, the temperature in parts of France hit 104 degrees. Nearly 15,000 people died in that country alone. During the Chicago heat wave of 1995, the ... |
Following traumatic brain injury, balanced nutrition saves livesClinician-scientists from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center are suggesting an immediate and important change to guidelines used in the care of patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI). The researchers ... |
'Hibernation-on-demand' drug significantly improves survival after extreme blood lossFor the first time, researchers have demonstrated that the administration of minute amounts of inhaled or intravenous hydrogen sulfide, or H2S – the molecule that gives rotten eggs their sulfurous stench – significantly improves ... |
Personal information in E-mail marketing can backfire, study indicatesBusinesses risk chasing away prospective customers when they send chummy e-mails that bandy around people's names, hobbies and other personal information to pitch sales, according to a new study of the popular marketing tool. |
 Quagga mussels threaten western U.S. waters, researcher reportsPipe-clogging invasive mussels caused up to $1.5 billion in damage across 23 states between 1989 and 2007. Now, fingernail-sized quagga mussels, a close relative of zebra mussels, have spread to the West and ... |
 Proposed NASA Mission Could Explore Twisted Space Around Black HolesA new NASA mission could discover the shape of space that has been distorted by a spinning black hole's crushing gravity, and explore the structure and effects of the formidable magnetic field around magnetars, ... |
 China quake rare and unexpected, new study saysA new analysis of the setting for last month's devastating earthquake in China by a team of geoscientists at MIT shows that the quake resulted from faults with little seismic activity, and that similar events ... |
Silencing of molecular 'conversation' may help curb severe allergiesScientists in Sydney have identified a process, a synergistic encounter between two molecules, that may account for the extreme allergic reactions some people experience. By silencing at least one of these molecules, it may ... |
 Sweat, luck and eureka: Recipes for scientific discoveryEvery week thousands of academic articles heralding discoveries in medicine and science are vetted and validated before being published in no-nonsense journals with names such as "Acta Crystallographica," ... |
 NASA Goddard mission approved to probe matter in extreme environmentsAn instrument to study the extreme environments of the universe has been given the "green light" from NASA Headquarters. The High-Resolution Soft X-Ray Spectrometer (SXS) was one of the two science proposals ... |
ESA satellite assesses damage of Norway's largest fireFollowing the extremely hot weather conditions hitting Europe, Norway experienced its biggest forest fire in the last half century earlier this month. Envisat satellite images were used in the fire's aftermath to get an overview ... |
