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Swimming lessons do not increase drowning risk in young children
Mar 02, 2009 |
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Providing very young children with swimming lessons appears to have a protective effect against drowning and does not increase children's risk of drowning, reported researchers at the National Institutes of Health.
Alexander technique offers long-term relief for back pain
Aug 20, 2008 |
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Alexander technique lessons in combination with an exercise programme offer long-term effective treatment for chronic back pain, according to a study published on BMJ.com today.
Nanotechnology: Learning from past mistakes
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jul 21, 2008 |
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A new expert analysis in Nature Nanotechnology questions whether industry, government and scientists are successfully applying lessons learned from past technologies to ensure the safe and responsible development of emergi ...
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Turn On, Tune In, Develop? Researchers Examine How Brain Benefits From Musical Training
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 06, 2009 |
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For most people music is an enjoyable, although momentary, form of entertainment. But for those who seriously practiced a musical instrument when they were young, perhaps when they played in a school orchestra ...
Tackling new Arctic challenges from space
Nov 05, 2009 |
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International scientists, researchers and decision makers met at the 'Space and the Arctic workshop' to identify the needs and challenges of working and living in the rapidly changing Arctic and to explore how space-based ...
Sandia announces completion of mixed waste landfill cover construction
Nov 03, 2009 |
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The Environmental Restoration Project at Sandia National Laboratories reports the successful construction of an alternative evapotranspirative cover at the Mixed Waste Landfill (MWL) in September. The 2.6-acre ...
Web site help for students applying to college
Nov 03, 2009 |
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Two of my best friends are named Pete. We went to the same high school and the same university, Cal State Fullerton, which has been described as "the Harvard of north Orange County" -- by me, at least.
Forest clearances sealed ancient civilisation's downfall
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An ancient South American civilisation which disappeared around 1,500 years ago helped to cause its own demise by damaging the fragile ecosystem that held it in place, a study has found. ...
PCs shed pounds and CD drives, gain touch screens
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Nov 01, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Personal computers are changing - and not just because of the recent launch of Windows 7. Visit an electronics store and you might also find laptops are missing a familiar component. You could experiment ...
Lessons from oil industry may help address groundwater crisis
Oct 30, 2009 |
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Although declining streamflows and half-full reservoirs have gotten most of the attention in water conflicts around the United States, some of the worst battles of the next century may be over groundwater, ...
Lessons from flu seasons past
Oct 29, 2009 |
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Pregnant women who catch the flu are at serious risk for flu-related complications, including death, and that risk far outweighs the risk of possible side effects from injectable vaccines containing killed virus, according ...
Ancient ocean chemistry: Effects of biological oxygen production 100 million years before it accumulated in atmosphere
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists widely accept that around 2.4 billion years ago, the Earth's atmosphere underwent a dramatic change when oxygen levels rose sharply. Called the "Great Oxidation Event" (GOE), the ...
Swine flu prompts hundreds of schools to close
Oct 28, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The number of students staying home sick with the flu is multiplying nationwide and normally quiet school nurses' offices suddenly look like big city emergency rooms, packed with students too ill ...
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