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CDC advice for those with flulike symptoms

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created May 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is offering advice to people wondering what to do if a family member takes ill with flulike symptoms. Some of the more important points:





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Study: Cloth diapers just as bad

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 04, 2007 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (13) | comments 0

Cloth diapers are no better for the environment than the disposable variety, a British government study found.


Age test of Shroud of Turin planned

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Feb 25, 2008 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (12) | comments 1

A British scientist is overseeing new tests on the Shroud of Turin that he says will show it dates to the time of Jesus of Nazareth.


A room with a viewpoint: conservation messages and motivation

Other Sciences / Other

created Aug 22, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

People are more likely to reuse hotel towels if they know other guests are doing it too. A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research examined participation rates in a towel re-use program designed to reduce unnecessary launde ...


Butterfly proboscis to sip cells

Physics / General Physics

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

A butterfly's proboscis looks like a straw -- long, slender, and used for sipping -- but it works more like a paper towel, according to Konstantin Kornev of Clemson University. He hopes to borrow the tricks of this piece ...


The greenest paper of them all

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Wondering which paper towel or toilet paper is the greenest? The nonprofit advocacy group Greenpeace has released a pocket guide to paper products -- an updated version of the old National Resources Defense Council guide. ...


Infants draw on past to interpret present, understand other people's behavior

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 22, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The old real estate maxim "location, location, location" also plays a role in how infants learn to understand the ambiguous actions and behavior of other people.


Italian group claims to debunk Shroud of Turin (AP)

Italian group claims to debunk Shroud of Turin (Update)

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 0

(AP) -- Scientists have reproduced the Shroud of Turin - revered as the cloth that covered Jesus in the tomb - and say the experiment proves the relic was man-made, a group of Italian debunkers claimed Monday.


Invention Circulates Interest Among Diabetics, Organ Transplant Patients

Fiber 'Wrap' Preserves Tissue and Encourages Blood Vessels to Open

Chemistry /

created Dec 02, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at The University of Texas at Dallas have filed a patent disclosure on a medical device that looks like a blue elastic bandage and acts like a wonder-cloth that helps preserve transplant ...


Cloth pieces on shuttle may need repair

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created Aug 01, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA experts disagree on whether loose "gap fillers," pieces of cloth protruding from space shuttle Discovery's orbiter, could be dangerous during re-entry.


Too many fail to follow hand-washing guidelines

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 6

Everyone knows how to wash their hands. Warm water, lots of soap, a vigorous and thorough scrubbing, a good drying. Moms pound it into us from the time we're toddlers.



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