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Keeping kids safer in the car: Blocking the buckle

A babysitter was watching a pair of siblings who—surprise—were acting up in the backseat of a car.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Sep 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA's successful 'can crush' will aid heavy-lift rocket design

On March 23, NASA put the squeeze on a large rocket test section. Results from this structural strength test at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., will help future heavy-lift launch vehicles ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Mass hysteria rare, but usually seen in girls

(AP) -- Fifteen teenage girls report a mysterious outbreak of spasms, tics and seizures in upstate New York. But tests find nothing physically wrong.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

From opening thunder to closing whimper

Thanks to lightning-fast software from the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate (DHS S&T), if a truck bomb was discovered in Lower Manhattan we will now be able to predict the ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers devise new means for creating elastic conductors

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new method for creating elastic conductors made of carbon nanotubes, which will contribute to large-scale production of the material for use ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers unearth ancient bronze artifact in Alaska

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers led by the University of Colorado Boulder recently discovered the first prehistoric bronze artifact made from a cast ever found in Alaska, a small, buckle-like object ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

A single cell endoscope: Researchers use nanophotonics for optical look inside living cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- An endoscope that can provide high-resolution optical images of the interior of a single living cell, or precisely deliver genes, proteins, therapeutic drugs or other cargo without injuring ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New fracture analysis plan would change bridge fabrication, inspection

One size does not fit all. By adding the word "not", this now completely revised adage rings true for at least one civil engineer.

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Stem cell research in the UK reaches significant milestone

Stem cell scientists at King's College London will today announce they have submitted to the UK Stem Cell Bank (UKSCB) their first clinical grade human embryonic stem (hES) cell lines that are free from animal-derived products, ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Single-walled carbon nanotubes may serve as ideal probing tips to study friction, lubrication and wear at the microscale

Studying microscopic interactions at single asperities is vital for the understanding of friction and lubrication at the macroscale. Surface probe instruments with carbon nanotube tips may enable such investigations, ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Nanowrinkles, nanofolds yield strange hidden channels

Wrinkles and folds are ubiquitous. They occur in furrowed brows, planetary topology, the surface of the human brain, even the bottom of a gecko's foot. In many cases, they are nature's ingenious way of packing ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Want smarter children? Space siblings at least two years apart, research shows

(Medical Xpress) -- According to a new study by University of Notre Dame economist Kasey Buckles and graduate student Elizabeth Munnich, siblings spaced more than two years apart have higher reading and math scores than ch ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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