News tagged with slippery floor
Collaborative develops drug that may help hemophilia patients
A razor nick in the shower? A fall on a slippery floor? The average person simply calls it bad karma, but for people with hemophilia such episodes can cause prolonged blood loss.
Jun 27, 2011 |
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Research model may one day 'inoculate' elderly against slip-related falls
Training people to avoid falls by repeatedly exposing them to unstable situations in the laboratory helped them to later maintain their balance on a slippery floor, according to new research from the Journal of Neurophysiology.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 04, 2009 |
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Wikipedia editors question site's blackout
Can the world live without Wikipedia for a day? The shutdown of one of the Internet's most-visited sites is not sitting well with some of its volunteer editors, who say the protest of anti-piracy legislation ...
Jan 18, 2012 |
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Coexisting medical conditions increase treatment costs
More than 250,000 hip fractures occur every year in the U.S., often resulting in hospitalization, surgery, nursing-home admission, long-term disability, and/or extended periods of rehabilitation. Independent existing medical ...
Jan 18, 2012 |
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Japan mulls new robot help with nuclear disaster
Japan may be at the forefront of robotics and its children raised on cartoons of robot heroes and villains, but the country has so far had to rely on US-made machines for help tackling its nuclear crisis.
May 03, 2011 |
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What do you know about that fracture?
A fracture in a person over the age of 50 can be a sign of osteoporosis, yet some patient populations have little knowledge of the disease. According to a groundbreaking study published in a recent Journal of Bone and Jo ...
Apr 21, 2011 |
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Robots learn human perception
(PhysOrg.com) -- Michael J. Black teaches computers to analyse data on their environment as quickly and reliably as the human brain.
Technology / Computer Sciences
Feb 17, 2011 |
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Senate panel OKs middle-of-the-road health plan
(AP) -- With support from a lone Republican, a key Senate committee Tuesday approved a middle-of-the-road health care plan that moves President Barack Obama's goal of wider and affordable coverage a giant ...
Oct 13, 2009 |
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Slippery stretching explains ocean floor formation
For the first time, scientists have found regions of the earth’s crust which are stretching apart to form new sea floor; their findings are published in Nature yesterday (27 July).
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 28, 2006 |
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Nano World: Fast flow through nanotube membranes (Update)
Surprisingly, gas and water flow far more rapidly through membranes that use carbon nanotubes as pores than through conventional membranes with pores 10 times or so wider, experts tell UPI's Nano World.
May 19, 2006 |
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Scientists discover water is sticky on a small scale
When water vapor condenses in a nano-sized space between two surfaces, the liquid behaves more like solid ice than liquid water, even at room temperature. This solidification causes water to exert such a strong ...
May 08, 2006 |
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New Evidence About the Rise of Oxygen
Scientists believe that oxygen first showed up in the atmosphere about 2.7 billion years ago. They think it was put there by a one-celled organism called "cyanobacteria," which had recently become the first living thing on ...
Oct 25, 2005 |
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