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Oh, my aching back: Give me a shot of ozone

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

A minimally invasive interventional radiology treatment—that safely and effectively uses oxygen/ozone to relieve the pain of herniated disks—will become standard in the United States in the next few years, predict researchers ...





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Outpatient disc treatment gives long-term back pain relief

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A randomized, controlled study comparing standard conservative therapy to a minimally invasive treatment called percutaneous disc decompression for painful herniated disc revealed that while both treatments help patients ...


Gyrowheel to keep new bike riders upright

Gyrowheel to keep new bike riders upright (w/ Video)

Technology / Hi Tech

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (13) | comments 13

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new device called the Gyrowheel could soon revolutionize the way children learn to ride bicycles, and they will be able to learn on their own, without training wheels, and in as little as ...


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GE Shows Off 1TB DVD-Sized Disks at the Emerging Tech Conference

Technology / Hi Tech

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (27) | comments 15

(PhysOrg.com) -- At the September '09 Emerging Tech Conference in Boston, GE announced it has been developing a 1TB DVD size disk that can be read by a modified Blu-ray player.


New control of nanoscale 'magnetic tornadoes' holds promise for data storage

New control of nanoscale 'magnetic tornadoes' holds promise for data storage

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- At the human scale, the tightly wrapped spinning columns of air in a tornado contain terrifying destructive power that ravages communities. At the nanoscale, however, closely coiled magnetic ...


Astronomers discover pair of solar systems in the making

Astronomers discover pair of solar systems in the making

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Two University of Hawai'i at Mānoa astronomers have found a binary star-disk system in which each star is surrounded by the kind of dust disk that is frequently the precursor of a planetary system. Doctoral ...


Samsung Launches 1.5 Terabyte 'EcoGreen' F2EG Hard Disk Drive

Electronics / Hardware

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Samsung Electronics today announced its new EcoGreen F2EG hard disk that delivers a massive 1.5TB of capacity with 500GB per disk. With increased recording density and reduced number of disks, the EcoGreen F2 drive is more ...


Iconic rings and flares of galaxies created by violent, intergalactic collisions

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 21, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 5

The bright pinwheels and broad star sweeps iconic of disk galaxies such as the Milky Way might all be the shrapnel from massive, violent collisions with other galaxies and galaxy-size chunks of dark matter, according to a ...


Infrared Image of Circumstellar Disk Illuminates Massive Star Formation Process

Infrared Image of Circumstellar Disk Illuminates Massive Star Formation Process

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of astronomers from Ibaraki University, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Kanagawa University, University of Tokyo, Academica Sinica, and National Astronomical Observatory of Japan ...


Aching Back? Cholesterol Medication Might Help

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Feb 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Back pain, a hallmark of degenerative disc disease, sends millions of people to their doctor. In fact, more than 80 percent of patients who undergo spine surgery do so because of disc degeneration. And part of the answer ...


Twin Keck telescopes probe dual dust disks

Twin Keck telescopes probe dual dust disks

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Astronomers using the twin 10-meter telescopes at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii have explored one of the most compact dust disks ever resolved around another star. If placed in our own solar system, ...



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