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Chemical measurements confirm official estimate of 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill rate

By combining detailed chemical measurements in the deep ocean, in the oil slick, and in the air, NOAA scientists and academic colleagues have independently estimated how fast gases and oil were leaking during ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Engineer develops new approach for uncertainty estimation, wins award

Pavlos Vlachos, associate professor of mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech, working with two engineers from Utah State University, has won the Lewis F. Moody Award for an outstanding original paper useful ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 15, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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Challenges to the NHS from 'health tourism' going unrecognized

The rise of medical tourism presents significant challenges for the NHS according to new work from academics at the Universities of Birmingham and York. They argue that policy makers have so far failed to address the implications ...

Medicine & Health / Health

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Alien matter in the solar system: A galactic mismatch

This just in: The Solar System is different from the space just outside it.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created 17 hours ago | popularity 4.6 / 5 (13) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Challenges of identifying cognitive abilities in severely brain-injured patients

Only by employing complex machine-learning techniques to decipher repeated advanced brain scans were researchers at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell able to provide evidence that a patient with a severe brain injury could, ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created 8 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Iran blocks email, restricts net access: reports

Iran has further restricted access to the Internet and blocked popular email services for the past few days, in a move a top lawmaker said could "cost the regime dearly," media reports said on Sunday.

Technology / Internet

created Feb 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 14

A novel method for simultaneously measuring blood pressure and arterial stiffness

Arterial stiffness due to is a major contributor to cardiovascular disease but is very difficult to measure. It also can influence blood pressure readings since these rely on the time taken for arteries to return to normal ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

What does love look like?

What does love look like? A dozen roses delivered on an ordinary weekday? Breakfast in bed? Or just a knowing glance between lovers?

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Small modular reactor design could be a 'SUPERSTAR'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Though most of today's nuclear reactors are cooled by water, we've long known that there are alternatives; in fact, the world's first nuclear-powered electricity in 1951 came from a reactor ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (21) | comments 40 | with audio podcast

Domestic consumption main contributor to Africa's growing e-waste

West Africa faces a rising tide of e-waste generated by domestic consumption of new and used electrical and electronic equipment, according to a new United Nations report. Domestic consumption makes up the majority (up to ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Amazing skin gives sharks a push

Shark skin has long been known to improve the fish's swimming performance by reducing drag, but now George Lauder and Johannes Oeffner from Harvard University show that in addition, the skin generates thrust, ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Storm warning: Financial tsunami heading this way

In today's global village, national coffers are more interconnected than ever before. And as the current economic crisis has proven, a downturn in one country can travel in a wave across the globe, like a financial tsunami. ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 7


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