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Scientists discover why flies are so hard to swat

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created Aug 28, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (112) | comments 11

(PhysOrg.com) -- Over the past two decades, Michael Dickinson has been interviewed by reporters hundreds of times about his research on the biomechanics of insect flight. One question from the press has always dogged him: ...





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Race is strong predictor for restless legs syndrome

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New research shows that Caucasian women may suffer from restless legs syndrome (RLS), a sleep disorder characterized by the strong urge to move the legs, up to four times more than African-American women. The study, presented ...


Smithsonian scientists find the frog legs trade may facilitate spread of pathogens

Scientists find frog legs trade may facilitate spread of pathogens

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Most countries throughout the world participate in the $40-million-per-year culinary trade of frog legs in some way, with 75 percent of frog legs consumed in France, Belgium and the United States. Scientists ...


Earliest Animal Footprints Ever Found -- Discovered in Nevada

Earliest Animal Footprints Ever Found -- Discovered in Nevada

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 05, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (30) | comments 6

The fossilized trail of an aquatic creature suggests that animals walked using legs at least 30 million years earlier than had been thought. The tracks -- two parallel rows of small dots, each about 2 millimeters ...


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New study further disputes notion that amputee runners gain advantage from protheses

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created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 5

A study by six researchers, including a University of Colorado at Boulder associate professor and his former doctoral student, shows that amputees who use running-specific prosthetic legs have no performance ...


Angina in the legs? Time to alert patients and physicians

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Edmonton researchers recommend that people over age 40 be screened for peripheral artery disease (PAD), which puts people at high risk for serious medical complications including heart disease, stroke, and possible lower ...


Sleep disturbances affect classroom performance

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 15, 2007 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

As a night of bad sleep can have an adverse effect on an adult’s performance at work the next day, an insufficient amount of rest can also have a negative impact on how well middle or high school students perform in the classroom. ...


Packages of care for alcohol use disorders in low- and middle-income countries

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In the latest article in PLoS Medicine's series proposing the delivery of "packages of care" for mental, neurological and substance-use disorders in low- and middle-income countries, Vivek Benegal and colleagues discuss the tr ...


Gene expression in alligators suggests birds have 'thumbs'

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created Oct 03, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The latest breakthrough in a 120 year-old debate on the evolution of the bird wing was published in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, October 3, by Alexander Vargas and colleagues at Yale University, the University of Wis ...


New type of flying reptile discovered

'Missing link' pterosaur found in China

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (12) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international group of researchers from the University of Leicester (UK), and the Geological Institute, Beijing (China) have identified a new type of flying reptile - providing the first ...


A simple way for older adults to assess arterial stiffness: reach for the toes

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

How far you can reach beyond your toes from a sitting position - normally used to define the flexibility of a person's body - may be an indicator of how stiff your arteries are.



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