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SPARKy devices helps amputees return to normal lives (w/ Video)

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Arizona State University researchers have developed a prosthetic device that literally puts the spring back into an amputee's step. The ASU scientists have developed and refined SPARKy (for spring ankle with regenerative ...


The past matters to plants

The past matters to plants

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- It's commonly known that plants interact with each other on an everyday basis: they shade each other out or take up nutrients from the soil before neighboring plants can get them. Now, researchers ...


Many take dim view of new-fangled Christmas lights (AP)

Many take dim view of new-fangled Christmas lights

Technology / Energy

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (7) | comments 10

(AP) -- To Steven Walls, it's beginning to look nothing like Christmas, anywhere he goes.


Exploring the Stone Age pantry

Exploring the Stone Age pantry

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

The consumption of wild cereals among prehistoric hunters and gatherers appears to be far more ancient than previously thought, according to a University of Calgary archaeologist who has found the oldest example ...


Fertilizer use not always helpful in revegetation efforts

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Companies and communities trying to restore vegetation on damaged northern landscapes should think twice about using fertilizer to stimulate growth according to new research published in the November issue of Arctic, Antarctic an ...


Clinton: US would help raise billions on climate (AP)

Clinton: US would help raise billions on climate

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (8) | comments 4

(AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to put new life into flagging U.N. climate talks Thursday by announcing the U.S. would join others in raising $100 billion a year by 2020 to help ...


World's rarest gorilla ready for its close-up

World's rarest gorilla ready for its close-up (w/ Video)

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

The world's rarest -- and most camera shy -- great ape has finally been captured on professional video on a forested mountain in Cameroon, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society and Germany's NDR Naturfilm.


Global barcode project to scan plants in the wild

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A cheap and fast method of identifying the world's most important plants in the wild could soon be possible, thanks to a global project involving the University of Adelaide.


Ancient pygmy sea cow discovered

Ancient pygmy sea cow discovered

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The discovery of a Middle Eocene (48.6-37.2 million years ago) sea cow fossil by McGill University professor Karen Samonds has culminated in the naming of a new species. This primitive "dugong" ...


Livestock lead to better health in developing nations, rising consumption poses challenge

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In the face of reports about the ills livestock generate for the climate, environment and health, a new study published in the December issue of the journal Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability emphasizes that l ...



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