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Babies & Robots: Infant power mobility on display

Children with mobility issues, like cerebral palsy and spina bifida, can't explore the world like other babies, because they can't crawl or walk. Infant development emerges from the thousands of daily discoveries ...

Medicine & Health / Other

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U.S. to lease waters off Mid-Atlantic for wind farms

Lighting Maryland homes with power from giant turbines off Ocean City moved closer to reality Thursday, as federal officials announced they are ready to lease vast areas along the Mid-Atlantic coast for wind farms.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Brain mechanisms link foods to rising obesity rates

An editorial authored by University of Cincinnati (UC) diabetes researchers to be published in the Feb. 7, 2012, issue of the journal Cell Metabolism sheds light on the biological factors contributing to rising rates of obe ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New report outlines key features of next-generation public safety communications

Creation of a next-generation public safety communications network requires leadership from a single non-profit organization devoted to this purpose, according to a report released today by a federal advisory committee. Such ...

Technology / Telecom

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers: Societal control of sugar essential to ease public health burden

Sugar should be controlled like alcohol and tobacco to protect public health, according to a team of UCSF researchers, who maintain in a new report that sugar is fueling a global obesity pandemic, contributing to 35 million ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (9) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Report identifies 16 highest priorities to guide NASA's Technology Development efforts for next 5 years

During the next five years, NASA technology development efforts should focus on 16 high-priority technologies and their associated top technical challenges, says a new report from the National Research Council. In addition, ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Colorful solar instrument treks east for a new career

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the world's most colorful solar instruments is moving across country for a new life dissecting the chemistry of comets and stars.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Business, social media to prevent babies with HIV

(AP) -- Business and social media leaders teamed up Friday to tackle the transmission of HIV from mothers to babies, saying the medicine and the money are largely in place, and with the right organizational skills they can ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Elevated risk factors linked to major cardiovascular disease events across a lifetime

In one of the largest-ever analyses of lifetime risks for cardiovascular disease (CVD), researchers have found that middle-aged adults who have one or more elevated traditional risk factors for CVD, such as high blood pressure, ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

LED lights point shoppers in the right direction

Looking for an item in a large department store or mall can be like searching for a needle in a haystack, but that could change thanks to a hybrid location-identification system that uses radio frequency transmitters and ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Weaving electronics into the fabric of our physical world

(PhysOrg.com) -- The integration of electronics with materials opens up a world of possibilities, the surface of which is just being scratched. Professor Arokia Nathan has joined the University to take up ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0


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