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Rising sea threatens coastline

Rising sea threatens coastline

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 23, 2009 | popularity 2.1 / 5 (17) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Experts at The University of Manchester are to produce a detailed picture of the public’s views on the uncertain future of a 250-mile-stretch of coastline.


Baseball diamonds: the lefthander's best friend

Other Sciences / Other

created Jul 07, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (26) | comments 1

Baseball diamonds are a left-hander's best friend. That's because the game was designed to make a lefty the "Natural," according to David A. Peters, Ph.D., the McDonnell Douglas Professor of Engineering at Washington University ...





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Ethanol profitability calculator developed by Iowa State University researcher

Other Sciences / Other

created Jan 14, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- A researcher at Iowa State University has developed a tool to determine what market conditions are needed for ethanol producers to make a profit.


Engineer: Head-first slide is quicker

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Sep 26, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (15) | comments 6

Base running and base stealing would seem to be arts driven solely by a runner's speed, but there's more than mere gristle, bone and lung power to this facet of baseball -- there are lots of mathematics and physics at play.


Iowa State University researcher uncovers potential key to curing tuberculosis

Iowa State University researcher uncovers potential key to curing tuberculosis

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers at Iowa State University have identified an enzyme that helps make tuberculosis resistant to a human's natural defense system. Researchers have also found a method to possibly neutralize that enzyme, ...


Ivory tower needs to adapt to online media landscape, scholar says

Ivory tower needs to adapt to online media landscape, scholar says

Other Sciences / Other

created Apr 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Universities need to embrace new online media, social networks and a culture of "openness" as part of their pedagogy, or they risk becoming seen as anachronisms in today's hyper-connected world where information ...


Recent, vigorous exercise is associated with reduced breast cancer risk

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Post-menopausal women who engage in moderate to vigorous exercise have a reduced risk of breast cancer. This comes from researchers writing the open access journal BMC Cancer who investigated the link between breast cancer ...


'Jumping genes' create antibiotic resistance in bacteria

'Jumping genes' create antibiotic resistance in bacteria

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A small piece of foreign DNA recognizes when and where to slip into a bacterium's genetic code, allowing bacteria to genetically adapt to their environment -- and develop resistance to antibiotics, ...


Lizards' feisty flicking changed by motion noise

Biology /

created Jul 05, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Animals that alter their movement-based signals to overcome visually ‘noisy’ environments could lead to a better understanding of vision systems and improve the capacity of ‘seeing’ machines, according to scientists from ...


Molecular glue with new effect

Biology /

created Jan 31, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Ten years ago, researchers at the IMP - a basic research institute in Vienna - discovered a fundamental and amazingly plausible mechanism of cell division. They identified a protein complex, which, as a ring-shaped molecule, ...


Ebb and flow of the sea drives world's big extinction events

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 15, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (52) | comments 4

If you are curious about Earth's periodic mass extinction events such as the sudden demise of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, you might consider crashing asteroids and sky-darkening super volcanoes as culprits.


Top US copyright cop opposes Google book deal

Technology / Internet

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 2

(AP) -- The nation's top copyright official has joined the mounting opposition to a class-action settlement that would give Google Inc. the digital rights to millions of out-of-print books.



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