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Negligible impact on public safety from shark cage diving operations

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A study by five university researchers -- including four from the University of Hawaii at Manoa -- concludes that existing shark cage diving enterprises in Hawai'i have a negligible effect on public safety.


MIT tests self-propelled cage for fish farming

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 03, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A self-propelling underwater cage developed and recently tested by an MIT researcher could not only cut costs for offshore ocean-based fish farms but also aid the movement of such operations into the high ...





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Device enables world's first voluntary gorilla blood pressure reading

Device enables world's first voluntary gorilla blood pressure reading

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Zoo Atlanta recently became the first zoological institution in the world to obtain voluntary blood pressure readings from a gorilla. This groundbreaking stride was made possible by the Gorilla Tough Cuff, ...


An exquisite container

Smart drug delivery system -- Gold nanocage covered with polymer (w/ Video)

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

In campy old movies, Lucretia Borgia swans around emptying powder from her ring into wine glasses carelessly left unattended. The poison ring is usually a confection of gold filigree holding a cabochon or ...


Exercise can aid recovery after brain radiation

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Exercise is a key factor in improving both memory and mood after whole-brain radiation treatments in rodents, according to data presented by Duke University scientists at the Society for Neuroscience meeting.


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Chocolate, water reduce pain response to heat

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

People often eat food to feel better, but researchers have found that eating chocolate or drinking water can blunt pain, reducing a rat's response to a hot stimulus. This natural form of pain relief may help ...


A Egyptian worker sits next to a sarcophagus which contains a mummy in 2002

TB the culprit in the great mummy whodunnit

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Around 2,600 years ago, on the banks of the Nile, a bed-ridden lady of high rank coughed and wheezed as tuberculosis ravaged her body, driving her ruthlessly towards the afterlife.


Making a clean getaway: Scientists demonstrate how bird baths make for more accurate flyers

Making a clean getaway: Scientists demonstrate how bird baths make for more accurate flyers

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Newcastle University scientists investigating why starlings bathe so often have discovered it alters their escape behaviour, with clean birds proving the most accurate flyers.


Mice Levitated for Space Research

Mice Levitated for Space Research

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 11, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (11) | comments 21

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have managed to levitate young mice in research carried out for NASA. Levitated mice may help research on bone density loss during long exposures to low gravity, such as in space ...


Methane gas likely spewing into the oceans through vents in sea floor

Methane gas likely spewing into the oceans through vents in sea floor (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (10) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists worry that rising global temperatures accompanied by melting permafrost in arctic regions will initiate the release of underground methane into the atmosphere. Once released, that ...


Carbon nanoballs as data storage units

Carbon nanoballs as data storage units

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (36) | comments 4

Small, smaller, "nano" data storage! Interest is growing in the use of metallofullerenes - carbon “cages” with embedded metallic compounds - as materials for miniature data storage devices. Researchers at ...


New technology helps Parkinson's patients speak louder

New technology helps Parkinson's patients speak louder

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Researchers have developed a new technology that helps Parkinson's patients overcome the tendency to speak too quietly by playing a recording of ambient sound, which resembles the noisy chatter of a restaurant ...



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