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IBM Reveals Five Innovations that Will Change Cities in the Next Five Years (w/ Video)

Technology / Hi Tech

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Today, IBM unveiled a list of innovations that have the potential to change how people live, work and play in cities around the globe over the next five to ten years.


Orion Launch Abort System Attitude Control Motor Lights Up Sky

Orion Launch Abort System Attitude Control Motor Lights Up Sky

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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(PhysOrg.com) -- It looked like a light show in Elkton, Md., on Tuesday, Dec. 15, as NASA ground tested a full-scale attitude control motor, or ACM. The motor operated with precision as its elaborate eight-valve ...


Breathlessness eased in patients with rare, often fatal disease

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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Patients with a rare, deadly disease that mostly affects young women felt a dramatic reduction in breathlessness using an approved drug, according to study results published online today in The Journal of Heart and Lung Tr ...


Shift working aggravates metabolic syndrome development among middle-aged males

Medicine & Health / Other

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Shift work exposures can accelerate metabolic syndrome (MetS) development among the large population of middle-aged males with elevated alanine aminotransferase (ALT). Elevated serum alanine aminotransferase (e-ALT) is a ...


Should flowers be banned in hospitals?

Medicine & Health / Health

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Does flower water harbour potentially deadly bacteria? Do bedside blooms compete with patients for oxygen? Do bouquets pose a health and safety risk around medical equipment?


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

created 17 hours ago | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 3

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.


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

Technology / Other

created Dec 16, 2009 | 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 Dec 16, 2009 | 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.


Australia dismissed as "baseless" claims it was proposing a China-style plan for mandatory filtering of the internet

Australia defends controversial web filter

Technology / Internet

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Australia on Wednesday dismissed as "baseless" claims it was proposing a China-style plan for mandatory filtering of the internet and denied the system could be abused to silence free speech.


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.



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