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Sick? Stay home!

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The deadline is looming, rumors of layoffs are swarming and you get the flu. Think the heroic thing to do is to go in and “work through the pain?” Wrong! According to Dr. Mary Capelli-Schellpfeffer, medical ...





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Instant messaging proves useful in reducing workplace interruption

Technology / Software

created Jun 03, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 2

Employers seeking to decrease interruptions may want to have their workers use instant messaging software, a new study suggests. A recent study by researchers at Ohio State University and University of California, Irvine ...


TRAPping proteins that work together inside living cells

TRAPping proteins that work together inside living cells

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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

DNA might be the blueprint for living things, but proteins are the builders. Researchers trying to understand how and which proteins work together have developed a new crosslinking tool that is small and unobtrusive ...


Scientist Makes Another Breakthrough on Corrosion-resistant Zeolite Coating

Scientist Makes Another Breakthrough on Corrosion-Resistant Zeolite Coating

Chemistry /

created Jan 29, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (20) | comments 0

Hexavalent chromium played the villain in the film “Erin Brockovich,” causing severe and permanent health problems for people living near a power plant.


Small molecules mimic natural gene regulators

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jun 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the quest for new approaches to treating and preventing disease, one appealing route involves turning genes on or off at will, directly intervening in ailments such as cancer and diabetes, which result ...


Greener offices make happier employees

Greener offices make happier employees

Medicine & Health / Other

created May 19, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 0

According to the 2000 census, Americans office workers spend an average of 52 hours a week at their desks or work stations. Many recent studies on job satisfaction have shown that workers who spend longer ...


Hidden infections crucial to understanding, controlling disease outbreaks

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Sep 22, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists and news organizations typically focus on the number of dead and gravely ill during epidemics, but research at the University of Michigan suggests that less dramatic, mild infections lurking in large numbers of ...


Hidden infections crucial to understanding, controlling disease outbreaks

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Aug 13, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists and news organizations typically focus on the number of dead and gravely ill during epidemics, but research at the University of Michigan suggests that less dramatic, mild infections lurking in ...


Telecommuting has mostly positive consequences for employees and employers

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 20, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Telecommuting is a win-win for employees and employers, resulting in higher morale and job satisfaction and lower employee stress and turnover. These were among the conclusions of psychologists who examined 20 years of research ...


A Better Shot at Immunization

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 16, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 3

A new immunization strategy could reduce the vaccine doses needed to protect a population from disease (and reduce the antivirus updates required to protect a network of computers) by as much as 50%.


Sowing seed on salty ground

Biology /

created Jun 06, 2007 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Scientists have discovered a gene that allows plants to grow better in low nutrient conditions and even enhance their growth through sodium uptake, according to a report published online this week in The EMBO Journal.



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