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Missing Radioactivity in Ice Cores Bodes Ill for Part of Asia

Missing Radioactivity in Ice Cores Bodes Ill for Part of Asia

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 18, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (32) | comments 7

When Ohio State glaciologists failed to find the expected radioactive signals in the latest core they drilled from a Himalayan ice field, they knew it meant trouble for their research.


Social problems dominate concerns in neighborhoods with unsatisfied residents

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 06, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A new study reveals that the general appearance of a neighborhood is the single most important factor affecting how satisfied residents are about the area where they live.


Hypnosis shown to reduce symptoms of dementia

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jul 28, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A scientist at the University of Liverpool has found that hypnosis can slow down the impacts of dementia and improve quality of life for those living with the condition.





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Pressure rises to stop antibiotics in agriculture (AP)

Pressure rises to stop antibiotics in agriculture

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 28, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(AP) -- The mystery started the day farmer Russ Kremer got between a jealous boar and a sow in heat.


Student sleuths using DNA reveal zoo of 95 species in NYC homes -- and new evidence of food fraud

Student sleuths using DNA reveal zoo of 95 species in NYC homes -- and new evidence of food fraud

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (15) | comments 5

Two New York City high school students exploring their homes using the latest high-tech DNA analysis techniques were astonished to discover a veritable zoo of 95 animal species surrounding them, in everything ...


The robot may be used to help rescue people trapped in destroyed buildings, Ryu said

Japanese researcher unveils 'hummingbird robot'

Electronics / Robotics

created Dec 28, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 1

Japanese researchers said Monday they had developed a "hummingbird robot" that can flutter around freely in mid-air with rapid wing movements.


New form of malaria threatens Thai-Cambodia border (AP)

New form of malaria threatens Thai-Cambodia border

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- O'treng village doesn't look like the epicenter of anything. Just off a muddy rutted-out road, it is nothing more than a handful of Khmer-style bamboo huts perched crookedly on stilts, tucked among ...


First case of highly drug-resistant TB found in US (AP)

First case of highly drug-resistant TB found in US

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 7

(AP) -- It started with a cough, an autumn hack that refused to go away.


Splitting fluorescent protein helps image clusters in live cells

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 26, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Half a protein is better than none, and in this case, it's way better than a whole one. A Rice University lab has discovered that dividing a particular fluorescent protein and using it as a tag is handy for analyzing the ...


Scientists say magma building up in Mayon volcano (AP)

Scientists say magma building up in Mayon volcano

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 26, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 0

(AP) -- Fewer earthquakes have been recorded in the Philippines' lava-spilling Mayon volcano, but magma continues to build up inside and any lull in activity could be followed by a bigger eruption, scientists ...


American scriptwriters increasingly incorporating Spanish in their dialogues

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Nieves Jiménez Carra, a researcher and lecturer at the Pablo de Olavide (UPO) University in Seville has studied how scripts swap from one language to another in American television series and cinema. One of her conclusions ...


A man working an interactive TV screen

Controlling the TV with a wave of the hand

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Touchscreens are so yesterday. Remote controls? So last century. The future is controlling your devices with a simple wave of the hand.


Filipino troops try to keep volcano evacuees safe (AP)

Filipino troops try to keep volcano evacuees safe

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(AP) -- Police and soldiers donned Santa hats and red clown noses and belted out songs in crammed evacuation centers in hopes of keeping 47,000 displaced residents from sneaking back to their homes on the ...



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