News tagged with secondary


More 'Star Trek' than 'Snuggie': Student design to protect lunar outpost from dangerous radiation

More 'Star Trek' than 'Snuggie': Student design to protect lunar outpost from dangerous radiation

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 11, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- Alien creatures are the least of NASA's worries when it comes to moon travel. There are several potential threats to future missions - with space radiation at the top of the list. Now, a group ...


Poverty is rooted in US education system, researcher says

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 05, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 2

Inequalities are rooted in many areas of the U.S. education system, and the current system's relationship with poverty has not improved, according to a Kansas State University researcher.


Outwitting mutating flu during a pandemic

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created May 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a global influenza pandemic, small stockpiles of a secondary flu medication - if used early in local outbreaks - could extend the effectiveness of primary drug stockpiles, according to research made available ...


Using a small stockpile of a secondary antiviral drug in a flu pandemic

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In a global influenza pandemic, small stockpiles of a secondary flu medication - if used early in local outbreaks - could extend the effectiveness of primary drug stockpiles, according to research made available today ahead ...


Risk of leukemia with multiple sclerosis drug higher than thought

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

The risk of developing leukemia as a side effect of a drug for multiple sclerosis (MS) is higher than previously reported, according to a study to be presented as part of the Late-breaking Science Program at the American ...


Undocumented students face barriers to higher education

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research released by the College Board shows that because of financial barriers and exclusion from the legal workforce, only a fraction of undocumented high school graduates go on to college. The board ...


Worker termite

Birds do it, bees do it; termites don't, necessarily

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 26, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Scientists at North Carolina State University and three universities in Japan have shown for the first time that it is possible for certain female termite "primary queens" to reproduce both sexually and asexually ...


Research Shows an Incentive to Snitch Produces False Information

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The secondary confession - also known as snitching - is widely accepted as valid evidence in criminal prosecution. Yet, the first behavioral study to investigate whether people will provide false secondary ...


Researcher proposes statistical method to enhance airport secondary security screenings

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A researcher at The University of Texas at Austin has found that secondary security screening at airports is mathematically flawed, and has identified a way to select people for screenings more efficiently and fairly.


Study finds more effective treatment for pneumonia following influenza

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have demonstrated a more effective treatment for bacterial pneumonia following influenza. They found that the antibiotics clindamycin and azithromycin, which kill bacteria ...


Researchers map new path to colon cancer therapy

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 15, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 2

University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers have identified a promising new target in the battle against colorectal cancer — a biochemical pathway critical to the spread of tumors to new locations in the body. ...


Researchers Suggest New Models for Music Education

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 02, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Preteens and teenagers today are involved in music in ways that never could have been imagined 50 years ago. Yet America’s secondary school music education programs remain strikingly similar to those of five ...


Smog

Current government regulations miss key pollutants in Los Angeles region

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 29, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Existing regulations may not effectively target a large source of fine, organic particle pollutants that contribute to hazy skies and poor air quality over Los Angeles, according to a study scheduled for the ...


Has cancer spread? Research identifies best way to find answers so treatment can begin

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jul 22, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

For patients with head and neck cancer, accurately determining how advanced the cancer is and detecting secondary cancers usually means undergoing numerous tests – until now. New Saint Louis University research has found ...



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