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More than 18 million cubic metres of sand are set to be poured onto the new coastal band of dunes until 2011

Dutch build more dunes against rising seas

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

On the beach at Monster, bulldozers painstakingly turn sand dredged from the bottom of the North Sea bed into dunes in an ambitious effort to safeguard the Netherlands from flooding.


Researchers find extreme genetic variability in malaria parasite

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine Center for Vaccine Development (CVD) have charted the extreme genetic differences that occur over time in the most dangerous malaria parasite in the world. While ...


Ancient rainforests resilient to climate change

Ancient rainforests resilient to climate change

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Climate change wreaked havoc on the Earth’s first rainforests but they quickly bounced back, scientists reveal today. The findings of the research team, led by Dr Howard Falcon-Lang from Royal ...


Rensselaer researchers to develop and test next-generation radar systems

Rensselaer researchers to develop and test next-generation radar systems

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have received a grant for $792,000 from the U.S. Air Force to create a new laboratory for developing and testing next-generation radar systems that overcome ...


Mild exercise while in the ICU reduces bad effects of prolonged bed rest

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Critical care experts at Johns Hopkins are reporting initial success in boosting recovery and combating muscle wasting among critically ill, mostly bed-bound patients using any one of a trio of mild physical therapy exercises ...


A bed-shaped robot which can transform from a bed (top) to a wheel chair (bottom)

Panasonic develops bed that turns into wheelchair

Technology / Hi Tech

created Sep 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Japan's Panasonic Corp. has developed a "Robotic Bed" that can transform into a wheelchair to make life easier for elderly and disabled people, it announced Friday.


Ancient oceans offer new insight into the origins of animal life

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Analysis of a rock type found only in the world's oldest oceans has shed new light on how large animals first got a foothold on the Earth.


Insecticide-treated bed nets reduce infant deaths in Democratic Republic of Congo

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Giving insecticide-treated bed nets to nearly 18,000 mothers at prenatal clinics in the Democratic Republic of Congo prevented an estimated 414 infant deaths from malaria, a study by University of North Carolina at Chapel ...


NASA Heads Out to Sea

NASA Heads Out to Sea

Space & Earth / Environment

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

NASA scientists Maury Estes and Mohammad Al-Hamdan have been seafaring in the Gulf of Mexico, and one of them grew a bit green around the gills. It's not surprising that a space agency scientist might have ...


Tanning bed

Study: Tanning beds definitely cause cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jul 28, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 9

(AP) -- International cancer experts have moved tanning beds and ultraviolet radiation into the top cancer risk category, deeming both to be as deadly as arsenic and mustard gas. For years, scientists have ...


Carbon sequestration may enhance energy production, researchers say

Carbon sequestration may enhance energy production, researchers say

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- As energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions continually rise in the United States, unconventional natural gas sources coupled with advances in carbon sequestration may be the solution, ...


Scientists use bed bugs' own chemistry against them

Biology / Other

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists here have determined that combining bed bugs' own chemical signals with a common insect control agent makes that treatment more effective at killing the bugs.


7 solutions for sleepless situations

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 22, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Seven solutions for sleepless situations.


Safely transporting a preterm or low birth weight infant

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics should eliminate one of the many stresses of bringing a preterm or low birth weight infant home from the hospital.


Tanning bed

Get Your Vitamin D From Food or Supplements -- Not Tanning Beds

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 09, 2009 | popularity 1.8 / 5 (6) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- There’s no question that vitamin D does the body good, but tanning beds and unprotected sun exposure are not the best ways to get it, according to dermatologists with UC Physicians.