News tagged with events


Sea-floor Sediments Illuminate 53 Million Years of Climate History

Sea-floor Sediments Illuminate 53 Million Years of Climate History

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 01, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) drillship JOIDES Resolution is returning to port in Honolulu this week after a two-month voyage to chart detailed climate history in the equatorial ...


STEREO Reveals the Anatomy of a Solar Storm in 3D

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Observations from NASA's twin Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft have allowed scientists to reveal for the first time the speed, trajectory, and three-dimensional shape of solar explosions ...


Dietary fats trigger long-term memory formation

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Having strong memories of that rich, delicious dessert you ate last night? If so, you shouldn't feel like a glutton. It's only natural.


Large sponges may be reattached to coral reefs

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

April 27, 2009 - A new study appearing in Restoration Ecology describes a novel technique for reattaching large sponges that have been dislodged from coral reefs. The findings could be generally applied to the restoration of oth ...


Living in history: How some historical events shape our memory

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

If you are resident of New Orleans, how would you describe personal events that occurred shortly before August 2005? Would you refer to them as happening "back in July of 2005" or would you describe them as happening "just ...


Controlling our brain's perception of emotional events

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 20, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Research performed by Nicole Lauzon and Dr. Steven Laviolette of the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at The University of Western Ontario has found key processes in the brain that control the emotional significance ...


Evite rival Socializr launches events aggregator

Technology / Internet

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

(AP) -- Socializr, the online invitations startup from Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams, now helps users manage their events from sites like Facebook, MySpace, Evite and Meetup.


No Direct Link Between Panic Attacks, PTSD

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Apr 09, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

New Geisinger-lead research dispels a recent notion in psychiatry that if a person experiences a panic attack during a traumatic event that they will likely suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the future.


Mass Extinctions, Ancient Viruses May Hold Clues to Life’s Origins

Mass Extinctions, Ancient Viruses May Hold Clues to Life’s Origins

Biology / Evolution

created Apr 03, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (30) | comments 16 feature

(PhysOrg.com) -- Mass extinctions occur repeatedly, though irregularly, throughout Earth’s history, and occasionally these extinctions have been devastating to life on our planet - or have they? Extinction ...


6.5 million more patients might benefit from statins to prevent heart attacks, strokes

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Mar 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Millions more patients could benefit from taking statins, drugs typically used to prevent heart attacks and strokes, than current prescribing guidelines suggest, Johns Hopkins doctors report in a new study.


Medication does not appear to reduce progression of atherosclerosis

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Mar 17, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Compared to placebo, the drug pactimibe did not effect certain measures of atherosclerosis for patients with familial hypercholesterolemia (high cholesterol levels), but these patients did have an increased incidence of cardiovascular ...


New type of botulinum toxin appears to be well tolerated and may help reduce forehead wrinkles

Medicine & Health / Other

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

Injections with a new type of botulinum toxin appears to be well tolerated and may help to improve the appearance of moderate to severe forehead lines with no evidence of diminishing treatment response over 13 months, according ...


A Second Life avatar lands in WWF's Conservation Island

Second Life finding new life

Technology / Internet

created Mar 14, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 6

Linden Lab chief executive Mark Kingdon shakes his head when he sees news stories heralding the demise of former Internet darling Second Life.


Researchers find that the unexpected is a key to human learning

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

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

The human brain's sensitivity to unexpected outcomes plays a fundamental role in the ability to adapt and learn new behaviors, according to a new study by a team of psychologists and neuroscientists from the University of ...


Drought, Urbanization Were Ingredients for Atlanta's Perfect Storm

Drought, Urbanization Were Ingredients for Atlanta's Perfect Storm (Video)

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

On March 14, 2008, a tornado swept through downtown Atlanta, its 130 mile-per-hour winds ripping holes in the roof of the Georgia Dome, blowing out office windows and trashing parts of Centennial Olympic Park. ...