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Prof gets messages from space

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Barbara Frisken received several messages from outer space this year on her answering machine.


NASA Global Precipitation Measurement Mission Passes Major Review

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's effort to deploy the first satellite mission to advance global precipitation observations from space moved closer to this goal when agency officials approved critical elements for the Global Precipitation ...


Japan's 'space beer' sparkles among drinkers

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

A Japanese brewer has come up with a beer that's truly out of this world -- one made with barley grown from a line of seeds that once orbited the Earth aboard the International Space Station.


NRL's MISSE7 launched aboard STS-129

NRL's MISSE7 launched aboard STS-129

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The Materials on the International Space Station Experiment (MISSE) 7, designed and built by the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), launched aboard STS-129 on November, 16, for transport to the International ...





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Facebook creates online safety board

Technology / Internet

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

(AP) -- Social networking site Facebook on Monday said it is creating a global safety advisory board to protect its users against online predators such as sex offenders.


Group corrects statement about safety of hot toys

Medicine & Health / Health

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(AP) -- A consumer group that reported several of the holiday season's must-have toys are unsafe wants to make a correction.


A special kind of flight training

A special kind of flight training

Technology / Engineering

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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new generation of flight simulators will attempt to make air traffic safer.


New international study targets rare cancer bringing hope for advanced thymic cancer patients

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Dec. 8, 2009 — The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and Scottsdale Healthcare are testing a new drug specifically for thymic cancer based on early promising results at Scottsdale Healthcare.


New imaging nano-technique to change the way we see disease

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

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(PhysOrg.com) -- New nano-technology being developed by physicists at Macquarie University could help medical professionals better understand and more effectively treat cancer and other diseases. 


Gallium Nitride (GaN) Inverter IC

Panasonic Develops A Gallium Nitride (GaN) Inverter IC for Motor Drive with High Efficiency

Technology / Semiconductors

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Panasonic today announced the development of a Gallium Nitride (GaN) -based monolithic inverter integrated circuit (IC) for motor drive. The integrated six GaN-based transistors can be independently driven ...


UN: 2000-2009 likely warmest decade on record (AP)

UN: 2000-2009 could be Earth's warmest decade ever

Space & Earth / Environment

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(AP) -- A leaked Danish document at the U.N. climate conference provoked angry criticism Tuesday from developing countries who feared it would shift more of the burden to curb greenhouse gases on poorer countries.


EPA says greenhouse gases endanger human health (AP)

EPA says greenhouse gases endanger human health

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (8) | comments 24

(AP) -- The Environmental Protection Agency took a major step Monday toward regulating greenhouses gases, concluding that climate changing pollution threatens the public health and the environment.


British researchers: little evidence Tamiflu works

Medicine & Health / Medications

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(AP) -- British researchers say there is little evidence Tamiflu stops complications in healthy people who catch the flu, though public health officials contend the swine flu drug reduces flu hospitalizations and deaths.


Researcher unveils new approach to treat lower back pain

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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Using a branch of science that crosses disciplines to study complex problems, a Michigan State University researcher is introducing a new way to understand and treat lower back pain, a condition affecting more than 40 million ...



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