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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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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.


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Houses of the rising sun: Research sheds new light on Ancient Greeks

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 3

New research at the University of Leicester has identified scores of Sicilian temples built to face the rising Sun, shedding light on the practices of the Ancient Greeks.


Strategic management theory offers fresh take on the economic crisis

Other Sciences / Economics

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The recent financial crisis and resulting global economic downturn has been the most defining global economic event since the Great Depression. Now research which appears in the November issue of Strategic Organization, publis ...


Rescuing male turkey chicks

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A novel approach to classify the gender of six-week-old turkey poults could save millions of male chicks from being killed shortly after birth, according to Dr. Gerald Steiner from the Dresden University of Technology in ...


Rare pancreatic cancer patients may live longer when treated with radiation therapy

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Radiation therapy is effective in achieving local control and palliation in patients with pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PNTs), despite such tumors being commonly considered resistant to radiation therapy, according to ...


Active hearing process in mosquitoes

Active hearing process in mosquitoes

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A mathematical model has explained some of the remarkable features of mosquito hearing. In particular, the male can hear the faintest beats of the female's wings and yet is not deafened by loud noises.


Switching cell phones takes emotional toll

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

She's gone. We were the best of friends, constant companions -- literally, because I carried her day and night in the left-front pocket of my jeans. For five years we roamed the world together, or at least the United States, ...


NASA Develops Algae Bioreactor as a Sustainable Energy Source

Chemistry / Other

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- As a clean energy alternative, NASA invented an algae photo-bioreactor that grows algae in municipal wastewater to produce biofuel and a variety of other products.


When good companies do bad things

When good companies do bad things: Examining illegal corporate behavior

Other Sciences / Economics

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

The more prominent and financially successful a corporation becomes, the more likely it is to break the law, according to a new study led by a Michigan State University scholar that challenges previous research.


Novel connector uses magnets for leak-free microfluidic devices

Novel connector uses magnets for leak-free microfluidic devices

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Like other users of microfluidic systems, National Institute of Standards and Technology researcher Javier Atencia was faced with an annoying engineering problem: how to simply, reliably and most of all, tightly, ...



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