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Knowing Heart Murmurs

Hearts a flutter as exam includes audio portion for first time

Medicine & Health / Other

created Aug 25, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hearts will be racing faster this fall for every medical student in the country. That's because the three-part test every medical student and resident must pass will be delivered in a new way: by listening ...





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Voyager makes an interstellar discovery

Voyager makes an interstellar discovery

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 26, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (44) | comments 16

The solar system is passing through an interstellar cloud that physics says should not exist. In the Dec. 24th issue of Nature, a team of scientists reveal how NASA's Voyager spacecraft have solved the mystery.


What connects the elderly and sports people? Smart sensor technology

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Innovative smart sensing devices promise to boost mobility and quality of life for the elderly, reduce healthcare costs and even give sports people an edge through more effective training.


Feds mull regulating drugs in water

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(AP) -- Federal regulators under President Barack Obama have sharply shifted course on long-standing policy toward pharmaceutical residues in the nation's drinking water, taking a critical first step toward regulating some ...


Fossil shelved for a century reworks carnivore family tree

Fossil shelved for a century reworks carnivore family tree

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 4

More than a hundred years after its discovery, the limbs and vertebrae of a fossil have been pulled off the shelf at the American Museum of Natural History to revise the view of early carnivore lifestyles. ...


Efficient new wireless system can save 10 percent of bandwidth

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Driven by fast-growing use of smart phones and Internet videos, wireless communication among Americans is expanding so rapidly that a tsunami of megabytes could soon threaten to overwhelm the bandwidth available.


How do you improve mammogram accuracy? Add noise

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Members of a Syracuse University research team have shown that an obscure phenomenon called stochastic resonance (SR) can improve the clarity of signals in systems such as radar, sonar and even radiography, used in medical ...


Dispatcher-assisted bystander CPR best choice for possible cardiac arrest signs

Medicine & Health / Other

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

Dispatchers should assertively give cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) instructions to bystanders who suspect someone is in cardiac arrest because the benefits from correctly recommending CPR for someone who needs it greatly ...


China maintains strict censorship of the Internet

China issues new rules on Internet domain names

Technology / Internet

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

China's Internet watchdog issued a new set of rules on domain name registration this week in a bid to curb pornography and illegal content.


Genetic study clarifies African and African-American ancestry

Genetic study clarifies African and African-American ancestry

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 0

People who identify as African-American may be as little as 1 percent West African or as much as 99 percent, just one finding of a large-scale, genome-wide study of African and African-American ancestry released ...


Putting the squeeze on data

Putting the squeeze on data

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Data compression is one of the fundamental research areas in computer science, letting information systems do more with less. It’s the reason the iPod nano can hold thousands of songs instead ...



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