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Space tech helps to reach long-jump world record

Space tech helps to reach long-jump world record

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 03, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (9) | comments 5

German athlete Wojtek Czyz, running with a space-tech enhanced prosthetic leg, set a new world record at the Paralympics 2008 in Beijing, reaching an amazing 6.50 m and beating the previous world record by ...





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Philippine volcano rumbles with fresh explosions (AP)

Philippine volcano rumbles with fresh explosions

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created 7 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- The Mayon volcano, which has blown its top nearly 40 times in 400 years, menaced nearby residents with small eruptions of ash and lava Wednesday as Philippine authorities moved more than 30,000 people ...


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Scientists decode memory-forming brain cell conversations

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created 8 hours ago | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 0

The conversations neurons have as they form and recall memories have been decoded by Medical College of Georgia scientists.


Naturally skinny people have their own challenges

Medicine & Health / Health

created 17 hours ago | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Nancy Brueheim wishes she could break 100 pounds. Without working at it, Brueheim, who is 71 and stands 5-foot-2, fluctuates between 95 and 98 pounds.


Toshiba Launches Highest Density Embedded NAND Flash Memory Modules

Toshiba Launches Highest Density Embedded NAND Flash Memory Modules

Technology / Semiconductors

created 20 hours ago | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Toshiba Corporation today announced the launch of a 64 gigabyte (GB) embedded NAND flash memory module, the highest capacity yet achieved in the industry.


Portions of Arctic coastline eroding, no end in sight, says new CU-Boulder study

Portions of Arctic coastline eroding, no end in sight, says new study

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 4

The northern coastline of Alaska midway between Point Barrow and Prudhoe Bay is eroding by up to one-third the length of a football field annually because of a "triple whammy" of declining sea ice, warming ...


Strict blood sugar control in some diabetics does not lower heart attack, stroke risk

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- Strictly controlling blood glucose levels in type 2 diabetics with coexisting health problems such as heart disease and hypertension does not lower their risk of a heart attack or stroke, according to a UC ...


U of A students reaffirm the work of a 1920s paleontologist

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Three University of Alberta paleontology graduate students blew the dust off an 85-year-old dinosaur find to discover the original researcher had it right and a 1970s revision of his work was wrong.


Going vertical: Fleeing tsunamis by moving up, not out

Going vertical: Fleeing tsunamis by moving up, not out

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- 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 ...


Sucker-footed bats don't use suction after all

Sucker-footed bats don't use suction after all (w/ Video)

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

There are approximately 1,200 species of bats worldwide. Of that total, only six are known to roost with their heads pointed upward. Investigators did not know why, because they knew next to nothing about ...


Researchers Reveal That Environmentally Devastating Zebra Mussels Can Be Controlled

Researchers Reveal That Environmentally Devastating Zebra Mussels Can Be Controlled

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Cloaked in a delicate brown and cream striped shell and measuring a mere inch in length, the zebra mussel certainly doesn’t look ominous. This tiny invasive species, however, has wreaked havoc in waterways ...



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