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A milestone toward ending river blindness in the Western Hemisphere by 2012

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

An international team of researchers led by Rodrigo Gonzalez of the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala reports that the transmission of onchocerciasis or river blindness has been broken in Escuintla, Guatemala, one of the ...





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Studying a Star Before it is Born

Studying a Star Before it is Born

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first phase of a star's formation are thought to begin deep inside a natal cloud of gas and dust. In the earliest stages, material coalesces under the influence of gravity into so-called ...


Text-a-Tip programs allow tipsters to help police (AP)

Text-a-Tip programs allow tipsters to help police

Technology / Other

created Nov 28, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- A mother in Boston tells police her 8-year-old boy was shot to death in their apartment by gunmen in hooded sweat shirts during a home invasion.


Spitzer Telescope Observes Baby Brown Dwarf

Spitzer Telescope Observes Baby Brown Dwarf

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has contributed to the discovery of the youngest brown dwarf ever observed -- a finding that, if confirmed, may solve an astronomical mystery about how these ...


Hunting for Planets in the Dark

Hunting for Planets in the Dark

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 5

A proposed space mission that aims to measure dark energy could also detect planets that current surveys are unable to find.


Maps Unveil the Source of Starburst Galaxy's Winds

Maps Unveil the Source of Starburst Galaxy's Winds

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A research group at Kyoto University has discovered that shocks are the primary energy sources that excite the galactic wind region of starburst galaxy NGC 253. Their images of the center ...


P2P comes to the aid of audiovisual search (w/ Video)

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Current methods of searching audiovisual content can be a hit-and-miss affair. Manually tagging online media content is time consuming, and costly. But new 'query by example' methods, built on peer-to-peer ...


Scientists Unravel Evolution of Highly Toxic Box Jellyfish

Scientists Unravel Evolution of Highly Toxic Box Jellyfish

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- With thousands of stinging cells that can emit deadly venom from tentacles that can reach ten feet in length, the 50 or so species of box jellyfish have long been of interest to scientists ...


How much water does the ocean have?

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The calculation of variations in the sea level is relatively simple. It is by far more complicated to then determine the change in the water mass. A team of geodesists and oceanographers from the University of Bonn, as well ...


Warming drives off Cape Cod's namesake, other fish

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Fishermen have known for years that they've had to steam farther and farther from shore to find the cod, haddock and winter flounder that typically fill dinner plates in New England.


Starring Intelligent Aliens

Starring Intelligent Aliens

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 7

The most probable place to find intelligent life in the galaxy is around stars very similar to our sun, a new study has found.



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