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The Medical Minute: Pipes in the brain as treatment for aneurysms

Brain aneurysms are balloon-like out-pouchings that can develop off of brain arteries. Like balloons, these out-pouchings can burst causing a devastating type of stroke as blood leaks in and around the brain. ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Program urges smokers switch to smokeless tobacco

(AP) -- In the smoker-heavy state of Kentucky, a cancer center is suggesting something that most health experts won't and the tobacco industry can't: If you really want to quit, switch to smoke-free tobacco.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Giant prehistoric marsupial found in Northern Australia

(PhysOrg.com) -- In what paleontologists are describing as a major find, researchers have dug up the remains of a creature that lived some 50,000 to two million years ago. The diprotodon (Diprotodon optatum) as it' ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jul 05, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Pouched killers not poor cousins of carnivores

(PhysOrg.com) -- Marsupial predators are not the poor cousins of the carnivore world, as has long been thought: new research shows that they have been just as diverse as placental carnivores over time.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 24, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Sniffer 'hero rats' saving lives in war zones

A baby rat in a tiny red and black harness twitches its pointed nose incessantly, probing a grassy field where it is being trained by a pioneering Dutch NGO to smell out deadly landmines.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 08, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 2

Competition puts the brakes on body evolution in island lizards

Millions of years before humans began battling it out over beachfront property, a similar phenomenon was unfolding in a diverse group of island lizards.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 18, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'McDonalization' of frogs: Frog fungus hammering biodiversity of communities

Sometimes to see something properly, you have to stand farther back. This is true of Chuck Close portraits where a patchwork of many small faces changes into one giant face as you back away.

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A Best Friend of Humanity: The African Giant Pouched Rat

(PhysOrg.com) -- The African Giant Pouched Rats, Cricetomys gambianus have been trained to methodically sniff out land mines in war-torn regions of Africa. Apopo International based in Antwerp, Belgium is ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 25, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (17) | comments 4 weblog

Catering to the fashionista's phone needs

Gone are the days when the cell phone was used simply as a tool for conversation, and connectivity was the single-biggest factor in determining customer demand.

Technology /

created Oct 19, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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