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Study: Earth's polar ice sheets vulnerable to even moderate global warming
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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A new analysis of the geological record of the Earth's sea level, carried out by scientists at Princeton and Harvard universities and published in the Dec. 16 issue of Nature, employs a novel statistical approa ...
'One keypad per child' lets schoolchildren share screen to learn math (w/ Video)
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Dec 10, 2009 |
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The slogan is "one laptop per child." But it will be a long time before that is true everywhere in the world. Meanwhile, a new device aims to make a situation that is common in poor areas - one computer shared ...
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Zoning the ocean may help endangered whales to recover
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Scientists in Scotland, Canada and the US have proposed a new method to identify priority areas for whale conservation. The team's findings, published in Animal Conservation, suggest that even small protected areas, identi ...
Scientists Shed New Light On Right Brain Activity
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
11 hours ago |
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It’s a world first: thanks to new technology developed by the University of Victoria, Canada, researchers can now show how multiple parts of the right brain dynamically process spatial relationships.
Small Fingers More Touch Sensitive
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
12 hours ago |
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When it comes to finger sensitivity, bigger isn't always better.
Swine flu vaccine now plentiful in half the states
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(AP) -- After weeks of shortages, swine flu vaccine is plentiful enough that nearly half the states now say everyone can get it, not just people in high-risk groups.
Among Apes, Teeth Are Made for the Toughest Times (w/ Video)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The teeth of some apes are formed primarily to handle the most stressful times when food is scarce, according to new research performed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The findings ...
Aggressive infection control protects cancer patients from acquiring H1N1 influenza
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Despite a 100-fold increase in H1N1 influenza cases in the Seattle area during spring 2009, an aggressive infection control program to protect immunocompromised cancer patients and thorough screening measures resulted in ...
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Resumes Observations
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
14 hours ago |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers are receiving new science data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter after the spacecraft's six science instruments resumed observations today.
Fault weaknesses, the center cannot hold for some geologic faults
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15 hours ago |
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Some geologic faults that appear strong and stable, slip and slide like weak faults. Now an international team of researchers has laboratory evidence showing why some faults that "should not" slip are weaker ...
Toward reading your own personal 'Book of Life'
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What secrets about your risk for diseases are written in your own personal "Book of Life" -- the 30,000 or so genes that make you you?
Caltech scientists film photons with electrons
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Techniques recently invented by researchers at the California Institute of Technology -- which allow the real-time, real-space visualization of fleeting changes in the structure of nanoscale ...
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