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Next-Generation Air Transportation System to Ultimately Succeed, Computer Scientist Predicts

Technology / Other

created 13 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Next Generation Air Transportation System, known as NextGen, is due for national implementation in stages between now and 2018. "I am predicting ultimate success and a system that will provide a much ...


The Medical Minute: New toy safety standards bring parents confidence

Medicine & Health / Health

created 15 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The holiday season is here and for many kids that means one thing: toys. About half of all toy purchases in the United States occur between the Friday after Thanksgiving and Christmas.


NASA aims to send astronauts back to the moon by 2020, and then perhaps to Mars and other destinations

Top US lawmaker skeptical of new space funding

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she was personally skeptical of manned space missions and warned that NASA's future funding could depend on whether it was likely to create jobs.


Math goes viral: Researchers make math and science real for high-school students

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

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

At least a dozen Alberta high-school calculus classrooms were exposed to the West Nile virus recently.


Bacteria wouldn't opt for a swine flu shot

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created 20 hours ago | popularity 3 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Bacteria inhabited our planet for more than 4 billion years before humans showed up, and they'll probably outlive us by as many eons more. That suggests they may have something to teach us.


U of A students reaffirm the work of a 1920s paleontologist

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

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

Three University of Alberta paleontology graduate students blew the dust off an 85-year-old dinosaur find to discover the original researcher had it right and a 1970s revision of his work was wrong.


I think step to the left, you think step to the east

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 4

Even the way people remember dance moves depends on the culture they come from, according to a report in the December 14th issue of Current Biology. Whereas a German or other Westerner might think in terms of "step to the ...


Device connected to tongue designed to help blind perceive images

Technology / Hi Tech

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

An experimental device that uses the tongue instead of the eyes to "see" could be on the market next year, and a blind Fresno, Calif., teen hopes to be among the first to take one home.


Soap opera in the marsh: Coots foil nest invaders, reject impostors

Soap opera in the marsh: Coots foil nest invaders, reject impostors

Biology / Plants & Animals

created 17 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The American coot is a drab, seemingly unremarkable marsh bird common throughout North America. But its reproductive life is full of deception and violence.


Scientists Shed New Light On Right Brain Activity

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created 13 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

It’s a world first: thanks to new technology developed by the University of Victoria, Canada, researchers can now show how multiple parts of the right brain dynamically process spatial relationships.



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