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Trying last-ditch lung bypass for worst swine flu

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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(AP) -- A technology originally developed for premature babies may be helping to save some of the sickest swine flu patients by rerouting their blood so their lungs can rest.


In the Brain, Seven Is A Magic Number

In the Brain, Seven Is A Magic Number

Physics / General Physics

created 11 hours ago | popularity 4.2 / 5 (16) | comments 5

Having a tough time recalling a phone number someone spoke a few minutes ago or forgetting items from a mental grocery list is not a sign of mental decline; in fact, it's natural.


Friends go online at Foursquare to meet offline (AP)

Friends go online at Foursquare to meet offline

Technology / Internet

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(AP) -- Laura Fitton's ascent has been staggering: In less than a year, she's become mayor of nine different places in several different states, all without giving any speeches or kissing any babies.


Climate change could boost incidence of civil war in Africa

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created 14 hours ago | popularity 2.2 / 5 (13) | comments 5

Climate change could increase the likelihood of civil war in sub-Saharan Africa by over 50 percent within the next two decades, according to a new study led by a team of researchers at University of California, Berkeley, ...


Donate your text messages to science: Texto4Science project

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

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A Université de Montréal researcher has a special request for Canadian texters: "Everyone young and old, students and workers, artists and business people, no matter who you are, send me your text messages," ...


Scientists react as they stand in front of a screen at CERN

First atoms reported smashed in Large Hadron Collider (Update)

Physics / General Physics

created 14 hours ago | popularity 4.9 / 5 (20) | comments 9

Two circulating beams on Monday produced the first particle collisions in the world's biggest atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), three days after its restart, scientists announced.


Visual assistance for cosmic blind spots

Visual assistance for cosmic blind spots

Physics / General Physics

created 15 hours ago | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A bit of imagination on the part of a measuring instrument wouldn't be a bad thing. It could help to add data from areas where the instrument is unable to measure. However, it must do so constructively. In ...


A quantum leap forward?

A quantum leap forward?

Physics / Quantum Physics

created 15 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

The dusty boxes that line the walls of Jeff Barrett's UC Irvine office mark a high point in his academic career. Their contents: pages and pages of notes, most more than 50 years old, penned by late quantum ...



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