News tagged with rapid recovery

Obama vows to fast track high speed rail

US President Barack Obama Thursday called for a US high speed rail service to rival the express trains of France, Japan, Spain and China, highlighting a 13 billion dollar government funding boost.

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 16, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Below-knee cast speeds up recovery for severe ankle sprain

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research led by the University of Warwick shows immobilising a severely sprained ankle in a below-knee cast for a short period of time promotes rapid recovery.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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Study shows global glaciers, ice caps, shedding billions of tons of mass annually

Earth's glaciers and ice caps outside of the regions of Greenland and Antarctica are shedding roughly 150 billion tons of ice annually, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

Looking for work? There may be an app for that

(AP) -- Looking for a promising career in a lousy economy? A new study suggests you're apt to find it in apps - the services and tools built to run on smartphones, computer tablets and Facebook's online social network.

Technology / Software

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study flags over-reliance on computer tests in return-to-plan decisions after concussion

A new study by researchers at Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus and Pace University is critical of the widespread use of computerized neuropsychological tests (CNT) in decisions regarding when athletes can return ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The Arctic is already suffering the effects of a dangerous climate change

Two decades after the United Nations established the Framework Convention on Climate Change in order to "prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system", the Arctic shows the first signs of a dangerous ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (9) | comments 9

Imaging live mouse spinal cord will aid trauma therapy

(Medical Xpress) -- To study spinal cord injuries, researchers have had to conduct exploratory surgeries on mice to determine how nerves and other cells respond after trauma. But these approaches have only ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Wild dogs didn't go extinct in east Africa after all

In 1991, conservationists announced with dismay that endangered African wild dogs had gone extinct from the Serengeti-Mara region of east Africa. Now the latest genetic study reveals that this proclamation ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Not by asteroid alone: Rethinking the Cretaceous mass extinction

(PhysOrg.com) -- At the end of the Cretaceous period some 65 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, causing severe but selective extinction. While that is widely accepted, ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (14) | comments 25 | with audio podcast feature

Polymer science team designs new nanotech technique for lower-cost materials repair

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the super-small world of nanostructures, a team of polymer scientists and engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have discovered how to make nano-scale repairs to a damaged ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists learn how stem cell implants help heal traumatic brain injury

For years, researchers seeking new therapies for traumatic brain injury have been tantalized by the results of animal experiments with stem cells. In numerous studies, stem cell implantation has substantially improved brain ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Stratfor back online after cyberhack

(AP) -- Global intelligence analysis firm Stratfor has relaunched its website after hackers brought down its servers and stole thousands of credit card numbers and other personal information belonging to ...

Technology / Internet

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2


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