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Red-eyed Treefrog Embryos, Showing Their Bright Red External Gills

Red-eyed treefrog embryos actively avoid asphyxiation inside their eggs

Biology /

created Nov 03, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Boston University undergraduate Jessica Rogge and associate professor Karen Warkentin, working at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute's laboratories in Gamboa, Panama, discovered that frog embryos ...





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There's no perfect way to back up your hard drive

Electronics / Hardware

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (4) | comments 3

If there's one thing to keep in mind about computers, it's this: Hard drives fail. I relearned that lesson recently when one of my laptop's external hard drives stopped working and then my 4-year-old iPod died.


UGA researchers lead team in discovery involving devastating freshwater fish parasite, 'Ich'

Discovery opens new avenues for treating devastating freshwater fish parasite, 'Ich'

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Researchers from the University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine have made an "unexpected" dual discovery that could open new avenues for treating Ichthyophthirius multifiliis, or "Ich", a devastating ...


Hitachi develops a 3mm thin-type finger vein authentication module

Hitachi develops a 3mm thin-type finger vein authentication module

Electronics / Hardware

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Hitachi, Ltd. today announced the development of a 3mm thick thin-type finger vein authentication module. Finger vein authentication is a biometric identification technology which employs near infrared light ...


New device implanted by surgeons help paralyzed patients breathe easier

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Physicians at UT Southwestern Medical Center soon will begin implanting a new device designed to improve breathing in patients with upper spinal-cord injuries or other diseases that keep them from breathing independently.


New family care model aids at-risk families

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Many families struggle on a day-to-day basis with insufficient in-home care or problematic out-of-home care for their emotionally or behaviorally troubled children and adolescents. Researchers have recently shown that an ...


Researchers find few side effects from radiation treatment given after prostate cancer surgery

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The largest single-institution study of its kind has found few complications in prostate cancer patients treated with radiotherapy after surgery to remove the prostate. Men in this study received radiotherapy after a prostate-specific ...


Adding proton therapy 'boost' to X-ray radiation therapy reduces prostate cancer recurrences

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Men who receive a "boost" of proton therapy after receiving a standard course of X-ray radiation therapy have fewer recurrences of their prostate cancer compared to men who did not receive the extra dose of proton radiation, ...


New species of ghostshark from California and Baja California

New species of ghostshark from California and Baja California

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

New species are not just discovered in exotic locales -- even places as urban as California still yield discoveries of new plants and animals. Academy scientists recently named a new species of chimaera, an ...


The Apple iPhone

Apple denies battery problem with exploding iPhones

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Aug 28, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 2

US technology giant Apple on Friday rejected reports that overheating batteries had caused some of its iPhone devices to explode in users' hands, blaming incidents in France on "external pressure".


Charge your cell phone using light, courtesy SunCore

Charge your cell phone using light, courtesy SunCore

Technology / Energy

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (12) | comments 2

SunCore is a little known Irvine, Calif.-based company that's on the cusp of shipping some potentially revolutionary technology.



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