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Physicist Uses Radio Signals to Search Downtown Las Vegas for Signs of Ancient Pit Houses

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 16, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using radio signals instead of shovels, a physics faculty member from Ithaca College, along with local archeologists, has found evidence of additional 1,300-year-old pit houses five miles from the Las Vegas ...





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Laughter Differs In Children With Autism

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jul 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

According to a recent paper entitled "Laughter Differs in Children with Autism: An Acoustic Analysis of Laughter Produced by Children with and without the Disorder" in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, childr ...


Earliest evidence of peanut, cotton, squash farming

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jul 24, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (13) | comments 0

Anthropologists working on the slopes of the Andes in northern Peru have discovered the earliest-known evidence of peanut, cotton and squash farming dating back 5,000 to 9,000 years.


Researchers to develop ultra-miniature implantable sensors to measure blood flow

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 07, 2006 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Physicians and surgeons will someday monitor a patient's blood flow, blood pressure and temperature with tiny, implanted devices, thanks to research being conducted by a Cornell University professor and an Ithaca-area high-tech ...


Using cotton candy to create bloodflow routes

Chemistry /

created Feb 11, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cotton candy has delighted children for a century. Now it may have found a new role: helping scientists grow replacement tissues for people. The flossy stuff may be just right for creating networks of blood ...


Expanded food and nutrition program shows $10 benefit for each $1 spent

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 13, 2008 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A program to teach low-income adults about healthy food choices is a good bargain in terms of the health and economic benefits achieved, reports a cost-effectiveness study in the May/June issue of Journal of Nutrition Ed ...


Children are hurt by chaos at home

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 29, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (9) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Historically, U.S. children have experienced chaos for decades due to the nation's high rates of migration, poverty, and maternal and child mortality. But today, chaos in children's lives is largely on the ...


Galloping and breathing at high speed

Biology /

created Sep 25, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The coordination of two systems are key for any horse to walk, trot, gallop or win a race. The first are the lower limbs, which allow the animal to move along on a "spring-like" tendon. The second is a complicated respiratory ...


Ending the cycle of poverty

Ending the cycle of poverty

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- While many academically talented high-school students in Providence, Rhode Island, are figuring out what outfit to wear to school on a particular day, other top grade-earners are busily getting ...


Study reveals the paths of Ontario secondary students to their post-secondary destinations

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new study by researchers at Queen's University looking at the transitions young people make from secondary school to university, college, apprenticeship and the workplace found that over 60 percent of first-year college ...


Watermelon: Fruit on the Fast Track

Watermelon: Fruit on the Fast Track

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are studying how watermelons grow from tiny flowers to plus-size, market-ready produce in only five weeks. Their findings have resulted in the ...



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