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Research highlights problems of predicting birthweights in obese mothers

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jul 09, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers have found what they believe to be the most accurate way of predicting the birth-weight of babies born to the growing number of obese mothers, according to a study in the UK-based journal Ultrasound in Obstetrics an ...





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Researchers discover novel method for detecting MIRCERA

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

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Austrian researchers have successfully developed a new electrophoretic method for detecting MIRCERAź and other erythropoietins (EPO) in the blood. The technique, using SARCOSYL-PAGE, has specifically enhanced sensitivity ...


Thermochemical nanolithography now allows multiple chemicals on a chip

Thermochemical nanolithography now allows multiple chemicals on a chip

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created 7 hours ago | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Georgia Tech have developed a nanolithographic technique that can produce high-resolution patterns of at least three different chemicals on a single chip at writing speeds of ...


Micromachined piezoelectric harvester drives fully autonomous wireless sensor

Micromachined piezoelectric harvester drives fully autonomous wireless sensor

Technology / Engineering

created 18 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 1

For the first time, a piezoelectric harvesting device fabricated by MEMS technology generates a record of 85μW electrical power from vibrations. A wafer level packaging method was developed for robustness. ...


Cloning plants from seeds

Biology / Biotechnology

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Wageningen geneticists (The Netherlands) are developing a method to replicate the parents of a chosen plant. Known as 'reverse breeding', this will have a big impact for the breeding industry.


New results from a terra-ific decade in orbit

New results from a terra-ific decade in orbit

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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

December 18, 2009, marks the tenth year since the launch of Terra, one of NASA's "flagship" Earth observing satellites. But the decade is more than just a mechanical milestone. With each additional day and ...


Soup can reopens mystery of doomed Franklin Expedition

Soup can reopens mystery of doomed Franklin Expedition

Other Sciences / Other

created 20 hours ago | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Lead levels that are "off the scale" have been confirmed after tests were done this morning on the lid of a soup can dating back more than 150 years. The findings reopen the mystery surrounding ...


Further spread of Rhodesian sleeping sickness in Uganda likely due to livestock movements

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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The northwards spread of human Rhodesian sleeping sickness in Uganda is likely due to the movement of infected livestock, according to new findings from an interdisciplinary research group including members from the Centre ...


NASA tech zooms in on water and land

NASA tech zooms in on water and land

Space & Earth / Environment

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In a pilot project that could help better manage the planet's strained natural resources, space-age technologies are helping a Washington state community monitor its water availability. NASA satellites and ...


Researcher develops formula that can ID music industry payola

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A University at Buffalo researcher has invented a statistical method that can detect payola-like corruption in the music industry, a system that gives law enforcement an inexpensive statistical guide to identify potential ...


Efforts under way to make Web more accessible (AP)

Efforts under way to make Web more accessible

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Imagine not being able to use a mouse to open a Web browser or a keyboard to type an e-mail. What if you couldn't distinguish colors on a computer screen or type the distorted letters in order to ...



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