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Predicting insurgent attacks with a mathematical model

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | 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 ...


NASA NuSTAR Telescope Being Built at Nevis

NASA NuSTAR Telescope Being Built at Nevis

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- It's an unlikely place to build a NASA telescope: a leafy estate in Irvington, N.Y., that once belonged to the son of Alexander Hamilton. Inside a hangar-like building on the site, which is ...


Carbon and oxygen in tree rings can reveal past climate information

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

The analysis of carbon and oxygen isotopes embedded in tree rings may shed new light on past climate events in the Mackenzie Delta region of northern Canada.


Patients can safely skip pre-surgery stress tests and beta blockers

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Physicians should "throttle back" from routinely ordering stress tests and prescribing beta blockers to patients before non-cardiac surgeries, according to a report by the University of Michigan released online this week.


Severe asymptomatic heart disease may accompany narrowing in leg arteries

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Results of a randomized, controlled clinical trial presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) reveal that one in five patients with narrowing or blockage in arteries that supply ...