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The overall channels of the lightning discharges

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 05, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (14) | comments 0

A new narrowband radio interferometer system has been developed for continuous observation of various processes of a lightning discharge at a time resolution of one microsecond. By using this system, a cloud-to-ground lightning ...





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French technology upstart challenges Google

Technology / Internet

created 9 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- France's efforts to digitize its culture, from Marcel Proust's manuscripts to the first films of the legendary Lumiere brothers, long have been bogged down by the country's reluctance to rely on help from American ...


Studying how black holes grow

Studying how black holes grow

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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Black holes are some of the most exotic objects in the universe. They are the final evolutionary stage of giant stars much larger than the sun. When these stars explode, their cores collapse down to the size ...


Predicting insurgent attacks with a mathematical model

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created 12 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

When bombs and bullets left 37 dead during Friday prayers at a mosque in Pakistan, earlier this month, the insurgency was using the element of surprise. Unpredictability is the hallmark of modern insurgent attacks such as ...


Breathlessness eased in patients with rare, often fatal disease

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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Patients with a rare, deadly disease that mostly affects young women felt a dramatic reduction in breathlessness using an approved drug, according to study results published online today in The Journal of Heart and Lung Tr ...


Study on Great Lakes erosion dredges up controversy

Space & Earth / Environment

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The Great Lakes aren't as great as they once were. A U.S.-Canadian study released Tuesday reveals that unexpected erosion in the St. Clair River following a 1962 dredging project has permanently lowered Lakes Michigan and ...


Biden unveils federal broadband stimulus projects

Technology / Telecom

created 19 hours ago | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday announced the first $182 million in federal stimulus money for 18 projects to expand high-speed Internet networks in rural areas and other underserved communities.


Clinton: US would help raise billions on climate (AP)

Clinton: US would help raise billions on climate

Space & Earth / Environment

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(AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to put new life into flagging U.N. climate talks Thursday by announcing the U.S. would join others in raising $100 billion a year by 2020 to help ...


Leprosy susceptibility genes reported

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In the first genome-wide association study (GWAS) of leprosy and the largest GWAS on an infectious disease, scientists at the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) and 26 institutes in China identified seven genes that increase ...


Study reveals lack of diversity in embryonic stem cell lines

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The most widely used human embryonic stem cell lines lack genetic diversity, a finding that raises social justice questions that must be addressed to ensure that all sectors of society benefit from stem cell advances, according ...


Prayer on the hospital floor

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

What happens when the families of sick and dying hospitalized children ask their physicians to pray with them, or for them? How do pediatricians respond to such personal requests? While increasing numbers of physicians say ...



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