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Gas improves blood flow and organ status during minimally invasive surgery

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

As good as laparoscopy is in preventing some of the stresses of open surgery on the body, it does have drawbacks, including reduced blood flow and organ dysfunction. Laparoscopy is a type of surgery in the abdomen done through ...





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Scientists discover mechanism behind superinsulation

Scientists discover mechanism behind superinsulation

Physics / General Physics

created 16 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have discovered the microscopic mechanism behind the phenomenon of superinsulation, the ability of certain materials ...


A new kind of micro-mobility: Moving tiny particles using magnetic fields

A new kind of micro-mobility: Moving tiny particles using magnetic fields (w/ Video)

Physics / General Physics

created 19 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new microscopic system devised by researchers in MIT's department of materials science and engineering could provide a novel method for moving tiny objects inside a microchip, and could also provide new ...


OU Lab 1 of 4 in nation testing new exercise technique

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A year ago, Michael Bemben, professor of health and exercise science in the University of Oklahoma College of Arts and Sciences, was invited to the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., to formally announce the partnership ...


A unique geography -- and soot and dust -- conspire against Himalayan glaciers

A unique geography -- and soot and dust -- conspire against Himalayan glaciers

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created 3 hours ago | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1

"So many disparate elements, both natural and man-made, converge in the Himalayas," said William Lau, a climatologist from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "There's no other place in the ...


Painkiller undermines aspirin's anti-clotting action

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Millions of Americans take Celebrex for arthritis or other pain. Many, if they are middle-aged or older, also take a low-dose aspirin tablet daily to reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke. Yet they may be getting little ...


Scientists Investigate Cause of 'Singing Dunes'

Scientists Investigate Cause of 'Singing Dunes'

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(PhysOrg.com) -- In more than 30 locations around the world, the phenomenon of singing sand dunes has intrigued explorers, tourists, and scientists. When an avalanche occurs or even when the sand is pushed ...


Going vertical: Fleeing tsunamis by moving up, not out

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created 20 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In the minutes after a strong earthquake struck offshore of the Indonesian city of Padang on Sept. 30, fears of a tsunami prompted hundreds of thousands of residents to evacuate the coastal city. Or try to.


New structure could produce efficient semiconductor laser sources

New structure could produce efficient semiconductor laser sources

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created 17 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have achieved a nanoscale laser structure they anticipate will produce semiconductor lasers in the next two years that are more than twice as efficient ...


Yellowstone's plumbing exposed

Yellowstone's plumbing exposed

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (30) | comments 15

(PhysOrg.com) -- The most detailed seismic images yet published of the plumbing that feeds the Yellowstone supervolcano shows a plume of hot and molten rock rising at an angle from the northwest at a depth ...



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