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Exposures to metals and diesel emissions in air linked to respiratory symptoms in children

Medicine & Health / Health

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

Exposure shortly after birth to ambient metals from residential heating oil combustion and particles from diesel emissions are associated with respiratory symptoms in young inner city children, according to a new study by ...


Hidden threat: Elevated pollution levels near regional airports

Hidden threat: Elevated pollution levels near regional airports

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists are reporting evidence that air pollution — a well-recognized problem at major airports — may pose an important but largely overlooked health concern for people living near smaller regional airports. ...


Immune system quirk could lead to effective tularemia vaccine

Medicine & Health / Research

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

Immunologists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC and the have found a unique quirk in the way the immune system fends off bacteria called Francisella tularensis, ...


Electronic nose sniffs out toxins

Electronic nose sniffs out toxins

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Imagine a polka-dotted postage stamp-sized sensor that can sniff out some known poisonous gases and toxins and show the results simply by changing colors.


Needle-free, inhalant powder measles vaccine could save thousands of lives

Needle-free, inhalant powder measles vaccine could save thousands of lives

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 16, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The first dry powder inhalable vaccine for measles is moving toward clinical trials next year in India, where the disease still sickens millions of infants and children and kills almost 200,000 annually, according ...


Novel temperature calibration improves NIST microhotplate technology

Novel temperature calibration improves NIST microhotplate technology

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have developed a new calibration technique that will improve the reliability and stability of one of NIST's most versatile technologies, the ...


Study: Infant inhalation of ultrafine air pollution linked to adult lung disease

Medicine & Health / Health

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

Stephania Cormier, PhD, Associate Professor of Pharmacology at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, has shown for the first time that early exposure to environmentally persistent free radicals (present in airborne ultrafine ...


Massive dust storm in China circled the world in 13 days: study

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 20, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

A wind storm that ripped across western China's Taklimakan desert kicked up hundreds of thousands of tonnes of dust that high-altitude winds then carried around the world in less than two weeks, a study says.


Environmental manganese good in trace amounts but can correlate to cancer rates

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jul 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In the first ecological study of its kind in the world, a Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center researcher has uncovered the unique finding that groundwater and airborne manganese in North Carolina correlates with ...


Fighting TB might be a matter of 'flipping a switch' in immune response

Medicine & Health / Research

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

Scientists are focusing on a new concept in fighting airborne pathogens by manipulating what is called the "switching time," the point at which a highly regulated immune response gives way to powerful cells that specialize ...


Spring agricultural fires have large impact on melting Arctic

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists from around the world will convene at the University of New Hampshire June 2-5, 2009, to discuss key findings from the most ambitious effort ever undertaken to measure "short-lived" airborne pollutants in the Arctic ...


An advance in solving the mysterious machine-workers' disease

An advance in solving the mysterious machine-workers' disease

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scientists in Ohio are reporting a long-awaited advance toward making the workplace safer for more than one million machinists in the United States who may be exposed to disease-causing bacteria in contaminated ...


Mars Spacecraft Teams on Alert for Dust-Storm Season

Mars Spacecraft Teams on Alert for Dust-Storm Season

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Heading into a period of the Martian year prone to major dust storms, the team operating NASA's twin Mars rovers is taking advantage of eye-in-the-sky weather reports.


Specialized polymer used to detect nerve agents, toxic chemicals for air monitoring in emergencies

Specialized polymer used to detect nerve agents, toxic chemicals for air monitoring in emergencies

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A unique polymer that allows sensors to detect nerve agents and other toxic industrial chemicals in the air is now available to companies developing chemical detectors for emergency personnel, ...


Aerosols May Drive a Significant Portion of Arctic Warming

Aerosols May Drive a Significant Portion of Arctic Warming

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 08, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (19) | comments 15

(PhysOrg.com) -- Though greenhouse gases are invariably at the center of discussions about global climate change, new NASA research suggests that much of the atmospheric warming observed in the Arctic since ...