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Astronaut balancing act: Training to help explorers adapt to a return to gravity

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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Astronauts returning from challenging long-duration missions face one more challenge when they get back to Earth - standing up and walking.





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Study confirms association between tobacco smoke and behavioral problems in children

Medicine & Health / Health

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The scientists observed that the impact of tobacco smoke was especially detrimental during gestation. The results of the study have been published in the current online issue of the renowned journal Environmental Health Pe ...


Review: Barnes & Noble reader is dual-screen mess (AP)

Review: Barnes & Noble reader is dual-screen mess

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

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(AP) -- The e-book reading device is the gadget gift of the season. Both Sony and Barnes & Noble have sold out of their new models, and new buyers will have to wait until January for delivery. So why are ...


Nerve-cell transplants help brain-damaged rats fully recover lost ability to learn

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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Nerve cells transplanted into brain-damaged rats helped them to fully recover their ability to learn and remember, probably by promoting nurturing, protective growth factors, according to a new study.


Study on land plant fossils shows Paleoasian Ocean disappeared about 251 million years ago

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A latest discovery of land plant fossils from Heilongjiang, Northeast China shows that the Siberian Plate sutured with the North China Plate at the end of the Permian, and resulted in the final closure of the Paleoasian Ocean ...


Toshiba Develops High Performance CMOS Device Technology for 20nm Generation LSI

Toshiba Develops High Performance CMOS Device Technology for 20nm Generation LSI

Technology / Semiconductors

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has developed a breakthrough technology for steep channel impurity distribution that delivers a solution to a key problem for 20nm generation CMOS ...


AT&T: Tighter control of cell data usage ahead

Technology / Telecom

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(AP) -- Wireless data hogs who jam the airwaves by watching video on their iPhones will be put on tighter leashes, an AT&T Inc. executive said Wednesday.


Carnegie Mellon scientists discover first evidence of brain rewiring in children

Scientists discover first evidence of brain rewiring in children

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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Carnegie Mellon University scientists Timothy Keller and Marcel Just have uncovered the first evidence that intensive instruction to improve reading skills in young children causes the brain to physically ...


Family life can lead to cannabis disorders

Medicine & Health / Other

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(PhysOrg.com) -- One in five young people experience a cannabis use disorder, according to a UQ and Mater Hospital study published today in the American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse.


Toshiba develops essential technology for spintronics-based MOS field-effect transistor

Toshiba develops essential technology for spintronics-based MOS field-effect transistor

Technology / Semiconductors

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has developed MOSFET cell based on spin transport electronics, or spintronics, an advanced semiconductor technology that makes use of the spin and ...


Ubiquitous health: Enabling telemedicine to cut hospital visits, save money

Technology / Telecom

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A ubiquitous health monitoring system that automatically alerted the patient's family or physician to problematic changes in the person's vital signs could cut hospital visits and save lives, according to Japanese researchers ...



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