News tagged with cold
Researcher finds there could be up to 200 cold viruses
Oct 19, 2009 |
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(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
Oct 19, 2009 |
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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
Oct 05, 2009 |
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(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
Sep 28, 2009 |
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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
Sep 05, 2009 |
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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
Sep 03, 2009 |
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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
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 27, 2009 |
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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
Aug 04, 2009 |
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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
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jun 30, 2009 |
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(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
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 24, 2009 |
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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.
Space shuttle science shows how 1908 Tunguska explosion was caused by a comet
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 24, 2009 |
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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
Jun 01, 2009 |
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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?
May 18, 2009 |
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(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
Apr 27, 2009 |
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(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
Apr 27, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Doctors are warning parents to avoid using imported camphor products after poisonings in several New York City children.
