News tagged with blast exposure

Color-changing 'blast badge' detects exposure to explosive shock waves

Mimicking the reflective iridescence of a butterfly's wing, investigators at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have developed a color-changing ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 29, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Blast overpressure is generated from the firing of weapons and may cause brain injury

The brain may be injured by the noise, which is produced when, for example, an anti-tank weapon (Bazooka, Karl Gustav) or a howitzer (Haubits) is fired. Scientists at the Sahlgrenska Academy demonstrated mild injury to brain ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 28, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Sun delivered curveball of powerful radiation at Earth

A potent follow-up solar flare, which occurred Friday (Jan. 17, 2012), just days after the Sun launched the biggest coronal mass ejection (CME) seen in nearly a decade, delivered a powerful radiation punch ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New take on impacts of low dose radiation

Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), through a combination of time-lapse live imaging and mathematical modeling of a special line of ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Elusive ultrafine indoor air contaminants yield to NIST analysis

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) spent 75 days on the job carrying out some very important homework—measurements in a "typical dwelling" of the release, distribution and fate of ...

Chemistry / Other

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Microscopic worms could hold the key to living life on Mars

The astrophysicist Stephen Hawking believes that if humanity is to survive we will have to pull up sticks and colonise space. But is the human body up to the challenge?

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Engineers fight for stranded Mars probe after 'sign of life' (Update)

Engineers fought desperately on Wednesday to save Russia's Phobos-Grunt spacecraft after the Martian probe sent "a first sign of life" more than two weeks after being stranded in orbit.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (18) | comments 15

Bioengineering yields new approaches for diagnosing and treating traumatic brain injury

Bioengineering -- the application of engineering principles to understand and treat medical conditions -- is delivering innovative solutions for diagnosing and repairing damage to the brain caused by a traumatic ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

With training, a failing sense of smell can be reversed

In a new study scientists at NYU Langone Medical Center have shown that the sense of smell can be improved. The new findings, published online November 20, 2011, in Nature Neuroscience, suggest possible ways to reverse the lo ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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Food without preservatives -- thanks to self-cleaning equipment

Eclairs and other pastries should taste light and fluffy. If the pastry dough contains too many microorganisms, though, it will not rise in the oven. Now, researchers have devised a system that cleans itself ...

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Does your hearing do the job?

How well do you need to hear in order to do your job, and how should your hearing be measured?

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hubble discovers another moon around Pluto

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope discovered a fourth moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto. The tiny, new satellite, temporarily designated P4, was uncovered in a Hubble survey ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 20, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 16 | with audio podcast


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