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Researcher finds there could be up to 200 cold viruses

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Bad news for the immune system: New research has boosted the number of likely common-cold viruses waiting to make you miserable from the long-accepted 100 to perhaps double that number.


Brain-damaged children often have cold feet

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Many wheelchair-using children with neurological disorders have much colder hands and feet than other children, and most receive no special help even though they have had these problems for a long time, is revealed in at ...


UQ researcher on the hunt for viruses

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- UQ scientist Ian Mackay is always on the lookout for that lucky find - well, if you consider unknown strains of the common cold virus lucky.


Pushing the cold frontier in an orderly fashion

Pushing the cold frontier in an orderly fashion

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Physicists are continually reaching new lows as they reduce the temperatures of samples in their laboratories. But even nano-kelvins are not low enough to overcome the entropy (a measure of the disorder in ...


Environmental effects of cold-climate strawberry farming

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Strawberries are America's fifth-favorite fruit, according to consumption rates. California and Florida grow more than 95% of the nation's strawberries; an additional 12,000 acres are planted in other states. Strawberries ...


Nowhere to hide: Some species are unable to adapt to climate change due to their genes

Biology / Evolution

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Species living in restricted environments such as the tropics may lack adequate variation in their genes and be unable to adapt to climate change, according to a new study.


NASA's satellite imagery sees Hilda hit a wall

NASA's satellite imagery sees Hilda hit a wall

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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

Two days ago, Hilda was in prime shape to strengthen further as she tracked westward, far south of the Hawaiian Islands. Today, as a result of winds and cooler waters, she's weakened to a tropical depression, ...


Adult gut can generate new neurons

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

The adult lower digestive tract can be stimulated to add neurons to the intestinal system, according to new mouse research in the August 5 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. The study shows that drugs similar to the ne ...


FDA panel to vote on painkiller restrictions (AP)

FDA panel to vote on painkiller restrictions

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jun 30, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Government experts are scheduled to vote on whether Nyquil and other combination cold medications should be pulled from the market to help curb deadly overdoses.


Lunar Orbit is Divine for NASA Instrument

Lunar Orbit is Divine for NASA Instrument

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Diviner, an instrument that will make the first maps of the temperature on the surface of the lunar polar regions, entered the moon's orbit this morning (June 23) aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.


The Tunguska Event--100 Years Later

Space shuttle science shows how 1908 Tunguska explosion was caused by a comet

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (19) | comments 15

The mysterious 1908 Tunguska explosion that leveled 830 square miles of Siberian forest was almost certainly caused by a comet entering the Earth's atmosphere, says new Cornell University research. The conclusion ...


Parents still give cough medicine to infants despite FDA warning

Medicine & Health / Health

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

Nearly two years after the FDA issued a formal advisory urging parents not to give over-the-counter cough and cold medicines to infants younger than 2 years old without a doctor's advice, a new study says many parents still ...


Is random lasing possible with a cold atom cloud?

Physics / General Physics

created May 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Random lasing, Robin Kaiser tells PhysOrg.com, is like standard lasing, with a little bit of a twist: “You don’t know the direction the photons will go, as you do with a more standard laser. This is becaus ...


Bouncing atoms may be the key to the future of gravimetry

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- When studying cold atoms, scientists often use magnetic or optical traps to keep the atoms in place. However, in some cases experimentalists want to study free atoms, avoiding the effects of a trap. "One ...


Doctors warn about camphor poisoning in children

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Doctors are warning parents to avoid using imported camphor products after poisonings in several New York City children.




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