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Educational home visits can improve asthma in children, study suggests

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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A few home visits by a health care specialist to educate children with asthma about basic strategies for earlier symptom recognition and improving medication use can lead to fewer flare-ups and less frequent trips to the ...


NREL Breaks Down Walls for Biofuels

NREL Breaks Down Walls for Biofuels

Biology / Biotechnology

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and ethanol producers are racing to come up with ways to make ethanol from cellulosic biomass that are cheaper and easier to ...


Microscopy reveals structure of calcite shells

Microscopy reveals structure of calcite shells

Chemistry / Materials Science

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Lara Estroff and colleagues have taken a deep, detailed look at the way lab-created calcite crystals, similar to those found in nature, grow in tandem with proteins and other large molecules.


Superior Super Earths

Superior Super Earths

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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Super Earths are named for their size, but these planets - which range from about 2 to 10 Earth masses - could be superior to the Earth when it comes to sustaining life. They could also provide an answer to ...


Heavy metal paradox could point toward new therapy for Lou Gehrig's disease

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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New discoveries have been made about how an elevated level of lead, which is a neurotoxic heavy metal, can slow the progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease - findings that could point the way ...


First Step To Success steps up in Albuquerque schools

First Step To Success steps up in Albuquerque schools

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

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A school-based behavioral intervention program developed under a federal grant in the mid-1990s at the University of Oregon, already in widespread use, now has shown real value on a complex stage, scoring ...


Availability of vaccine no guarantee public will want it

Medicine & Health / Health

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Just because a vaccine is available doesn't mean people will choose to be inoculated, according to new UofT research published amid widespread public confusion around the merit of H1N1 flu shots.


Financial restructuring in fresh-start chapter 11 reorganizations

Other Sciences / Economics

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The effectiveness of the existing bankruptcy code has long been a source of vigorous debate. More and more lately, high-profile firms like General Motors, Enron, and K-Mart are seeking protection from creditors through Chapter ...


Deciding to have a baby is an easier step for public sector workers

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

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Working for the public sector is good for fertility, according to new Economic and Social Research Council funded research at the University of Oxford. The study, which examined patterns of employment and childbearing decisions ...


Climate change in Kuwait Bay

Climate change in Kuwait Bay

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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Since 1985, seawater temperature in Kuwait Bay, northern Arabian Gulf, has increased on average 0.6°C per decade. This is about three times faster than the global average rate reported by the Intergovernmental ...



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