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First national study of diving-related injuries

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 04, 2008 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

If it's at the Olympic Games or at the neighborhood pool, diving is one of the fastest growing sports in this country. Every day millions of people do it and every four years during the Olympics, billions of people watch ...





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Disease-matching software could save children

Disease-matching software could save children

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- By matching children with rare or life-threatening diseases and modelling potential disease progression, researchers hope to find new routes forward.


elephant seal

Elephant seals take naps while diving

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study may have solved the long-standing question of how elephants sleep during their long migrations at sea, when they can be away from land for up to eight months.


'Call of Duty' sells $310M in N Amer, UK in 24 hrs (AP)

'Call of Duty' sells $310M in N Amer, UK in 24 hrs

Technology / Software

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(AP) -- First-day sales of Activision Blizzard Inc.'s "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" broke records, raking in an estimated $310 million in North America and the United Kingdom alone.


New `Call of Duty' could set entertainment record (AP)

New 'Call of Duty' could set entertainment record

Technology / Software

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(AP) -- This holiday season's biggest entertainment blockbuster likely will be a sequel to a popular franchise, with jarring depictions of war and an intricate story of good versus evil. It could easily rake ...


Nintendo recently cut the price of the Wii by a fifth in an effort to reinvigorate sales

Nintendo profits sink on Wii woes

Technology / Business

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Nintendo Co. revealed Thursday a plunge in profits and slashed its full-year forecasts as sales of its blockbuster Wii video game console take a dive in the absence of hit new games.


Titanic expedition possible in 2010 (AP)

Another Titanic expedition possible in 2010

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- The company that has exclusive rights to salvage the Titanic is planning a possible expedition to the world's most famous shipwreck in 2010.


Hitting early, swine flu claims 11 more kids in US (AP)

Hitting early, swine flu claims 11 more kids in US

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- As the swine flu outbreak strikes the U.S. early and hard, health officials note a worrisome number of child deaths and warn that supplies of vaccine will remain scarce for at least the next couple ...


NASA to moon: Get ready because here we come (AP)

NASA probes hit moon twice (Update 2)

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 11

NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, created twin impacts on the moon's surface early Friday in a search for water ice. Scientists will analyze data from the spacecraft's instruments ...


Wasteland and wilderness

Wasteland and wilderness

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Harvard science historian and physicist Peter Galison is using part of his Radcliffe year to explore the intersections of forbidden wilderness and nuclear wasteland.


Juvenile bluefin tunas can dive to depths of more than 1000 meters

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

According to the AZTI-Tecnalia researchers, the first estimations of the geographical location of the recovered tag revealed that this fish had undertaken migrations between the Azores and Portugal during the winter, later ...



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