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Health Physics Society recommends considering action for indoor radon below current guidelines

Medicine & Health / Health

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Radon is a colorless and odorless radioactive gas that is produced by the radioactive decay of radium. Radium is a product of uranium decay and is found in trace amounts naturally in nearly all rocks, soils, and groundwater ...


New device implanted by surgeons help paralyzed patients breathe easier

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Physicians at UT Southwestern Medical Center soon will begin implanting a new device designed to improve breathing in patients with upper spinal-cord injuries or other diseases that keep them from breathing independently.


Study sheds light on brain's fear processing center

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Breathing carbon dioxide can trigger panic attacks, but the biological reason for this effect has not been understood. A new study by University of Iowa researchers shows that carbon dioxide increases brain acidity, which ...


Brain Scan Study Shows Cocaine Abusers Can Control Cravings

Brain Scan Study Shows Cocaine Abusers Can Control Cravings

Medicine & Health / Research

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(PhysOrg.com) -- When asked to inhibit their response to a "cocaine-cues" video, active cocaine abusers were, on average, able to suppress activity in brain regions linked to drug craving, according to a new ...


Explained: The Discrete Fourier Transform

Explained: The Discrete Fourier Transform

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (34) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1811, Joseph Fourier, the 43-year-old prefect of the French district of Isčre, entered a competition in heat research sponsored by the French Academy of Sciences. The paper he submitted ...


Superconductor magnet heat shield being developed

Superconductor magnet spacecraft heat shield being developed

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (40) | comments 27

(PhysOrg.com) -- European space agencies and an aerospace giant are developing a new re-entry heat shield that will use superconductor magnets to generate a magnetic field strong enough to deflect the superhot ...


Measured -- The time it takes us to find the words we need

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The time it takes for our brains to search for and retrieve the word we want to say has been measured for the first time. The discovery is reported in a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Ac ...


Overeating can set stage for obesity, researchers say

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

It doesn't seem like a fair fight. In one corner loomed the Thanksgiving table, groaning with poultry, pie and mashed potatoes.


Peat fires drive temperatures up

Space & Earth / Environment

created 3 hours ago | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Peatlands, especially those in tropical regions, sequester gigantic amounts of organic carbon. Human activities are now having a considerable impact on these wetlands. For example, drainage projects, in combination with the ...


Ecologists sound out new solution for monitoring cryptic species

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Ecologists have at last worked out a way of using recordings of birdsong to accurately measure the size of bird populations. This is the first time sound recordings from a microphone array have been translated into accurate ...



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