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Seaway's 50th anniversary soiled by invasive species

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Fifty years ago Friday, President Dwight Eisenhower and Britain's Queen Elizabeth II walked down a red carpet, climbed aboard a "floating palace" of a yacht named Britannia and ceremoniously sailed through the St. Lambert ...


Quagga mussels are clogging Hoover Dam, colonizing lakes and rivers

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

It took some of America's best engineers, thousands of laborers and two years of around-the-clock concrete pouring to build the 726-foot-high Hoover Dam back in the 1930s. It took less time than that for the tiny, brainless ...





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Food banks go high-tech to feed the hungry (AP)

Food banks go high-tech to feed the hungry

Technology / Hi Tech

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(AP) -- Food banks across the country are undergoing a high-tech revolution, adopting sophisticated databases, bar coding, GPS tracking, automated warehouses and other technologies used in the food industry ...


New climate targets may not change daily life much (AP)

New climate targets may not change daily life much

Space & Earth / Environment

created 6 hours ago | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 2

(AP) -- Americans' day-to-day lives won't change noticeably if President Barack Obama achieves his newly announced goal of slashing carbon dioxide pollution by one-sixth in the next decade, experts say.


Semantic research sets world standards

Semantic research sets world standards

Technology / Computer Sciences

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(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have created new tools for semantic technology development which are helping to set the next generation of official standards. The tools also unblock some key bottlenecks ...


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Cellphone powers back pain chip in Taiwan

Technology / Engineering

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Taiwanese researchers have developed a chip to treat backpain that is powered by mobile phone, a member of the team said Friday.


Spin polarization achieved in room temperature silicon

Spin polarization achieved in room temperature silicon

Physics / General Physics

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(PhysOrg.com) -- A group in The Netherlands has achieved a first: injection of spin-polarized electrons in silicon at room temperature. This has previously been observed only at extremely low temperatures, ...


Diabetes cases to double and costs to triple by 2034

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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In the next 25 years, the number of Americans living with diabetes will nearly double, increasing from 23.7 million in 2009 to 44.1 million in 2034. Over the same period, spending on diabetes will almost triple, rising from ...


First-ever blueprint of a minimal cell is more complex than expected

First-ever blueprint of a minimal cell is more complex than expected

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (17) | comments 4

What are the bare essentials of life, the indispensable ingredients required to produce a cell that can survive on its own? Can we describe the molecular anatomy of a cell, and understand how an entire organism ...


Research sheds light on workings of anti-cancer drug

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The copper sequestering drug tetrathiomolybdate (TM) has been shown in studies to be effective in the treatment of Wilson disease, a disease caused by an overload of copper, and certain metastatic cancers. ...


Coma recovery case attracts doubters

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

(AP) -- Rom Houben's mother remembers her son's amazement when he finally started communicating again after spending 23 years locked in a paralyzed body that was misdiagnosed as vegetative.


New Switchgrass Germplasm Collected in Florida

New Switchgrass Germplasm Collected in Florida

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and cooperators have collected 46 new populations of switchgrass in Florida, adding valuable new accessions to the germplasm collection of this ...



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