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Trees facilitate wildfires as a way to protect their habitat

Trees facilitate wildfires as a way to protect their habitat

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Fire is often thought of something that trees should be protected from, but a new study suggests that some trees may themselves contribute to the likelihood of wildfires in order to promote their own abundance ...


Middle-school math classes are key to closing racial academic achievement gap

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Apr 20, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

More challenging middle-school math classes and increased access to advanced courses in predominantly black urban high schools may be the key to closing the racial academic achievement gap, according to a University of Illinois ...


Genetic clock makers at UC San Diego publish their 'timepiece' in Nature

Scientists Create New Robust Genetic Clock

Biology /

created Oct 29, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 2

UC San Diego bioengineers have created the first stable, fast and programmable genetic clock that reliably keeps time by the blinking of fluorescent proteins inside E. coli cells. The clock's blink rate c ...





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Ecological speciation by sexual selection on good genes: Is speciation adaptive?

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Darwin suggested that the action of natural selection can produce new species, but 150 years after the publication of his famous book, 'On the Origin of Species', debate still continues on the mechanisms of speciation. New ...


Waseda Flutist Robot

Musical robots perform duets (w/ Video)

Electronics / Robotics

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A flute playing robot unveiled by Waseda University last year has been joined by a robot saxophonist in a Classical music duet. The aim of the project was to design robots that could respond ...


Climate experts debate strategies for reducing atmospheric carbon and future warming

Climate experts debate strategies for reducing atmospheric carbon and future warming

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (10) | comments 16

(PhysOrg.com) -- Reducing carbon dioxide to safe levels may require extracting carbon from the air, says Cornell climate researcher.


Computerized order entry/decision support systems: Effective solution to managing imaging utilization

Medicine & Health / Other

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

Providing physicians with a computerized order entry/decision support system that provides immediate feedback regarding imaging appropriateness at the time of ordering may be an effective solution to managing imaging utilization, ...


Involving family in medical rounds benefits both family and medical team

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Involving family members of pediatric cancer and hematology patients in medical rounds benefits both the family and the medical team, according to a new Indiana University School of Medicine study.


Organizational psychologists use Rock Band to study how people achieve flow while at work

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

By playing the video game Rock Band for an hour, Kansas State University students were able to help a pair of psychology professors with their research to understand how people can achieve flow while at work or while performing ...


Feeling the way

Feeling the way: Robotic device can help visually impaired people

Technology / Engineering

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- For many people, it has become routine to go online to check out a map before traveling to a new place. But for blind people, Google maps and other visual mapping applications are of little ...


Upending textbook science on Alzheimer's disease

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Alzheimer's disease is caused by the build-up of a brain peptide called amyloid-beta. That's why eliminating the protein has been the focus of almost all drug research pursuing a cure for the devastating neurodegenerative ...


Is global warming unstoppable?

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (34) | comments 51

In a provocative new study, a University of Utah scientist argues that rising carbon dioxide emissions - the major cause of global warming - cannot be stabilized unless the world's economy collapses or society builds the ...


On the Crest of Wave Energy

On the Crest of Wave Energy

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The ocean is a potentially vast source of electric power, yet as engineers test new technologies for capturing it, the devices are plagued by battering storms, limited efficiency, and the ...



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