News tagged with softball
High school football, wrestling athletes suffer highest rate of severe injuries
High school football and wrestling athletes experienced the highest rate of severe injuries, according to the first study to examine severe injuries - injuries that caused high school athletes to miss more than 21 days of ...
Sep 02, 2009 |
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Analysis of windmill pitching shows risk of injury to biceps in softball players
Contrary to common belief, softball pitching subjects the biceps to high forces and torques when the player's arm swings around to release the ball, according to an analysis of muscle firing patterns conducted at Rush University ...
Mar 24, 2009 |
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Study uncovers how DNA unfolds for transcription
(PhysOrg.com) -- The human genome contains some 3 billion base pairs that are tightly compacted into the nucleus of each cell. If a DNA strand were the thickness of a human hair, the entire human genome would ...
Jan 17, 2012 |
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Space station to move to avoid oncoming junk
(AP) -- The International Space Station is dodging a softball-sized piece of space junk.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 13, 2012 |
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Scientists discover a Saturn-like ring system eclipsing a sun-like star
A team of astrophysicists from the University of Rochester and Europe has discovered a ring system in the constellation Centaurus that invites comparisons to Saturn.
Jan 11, 2012 |
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Decades later, a Cold War secret is revealed
For more than a decade they toiled in the strange, boxy-looking building on the hill above the municipal airport, the building with no windows (except in the cafeteria), the building filled with secrets.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 25, 2011 |
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Surgery to stop strokes reroutes vessels from torso to brain
(Medical Xpress) -- Five-year-old Ava Menefee was suffering frightening stroke-like episodes: One side of her face would temporarily droop, or shed lose all sensation in one hand. Although the girl had ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 12, 2011 |
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Mexico tackles epidemic of childhood obesity
(AP) -- Anghella Torres is just 4 years old, but already she weighs 66 pounds (30 kilos) - twice what she should. Because of her excess girth, her little feet constantly hurt from bearing the extra weight.
Oct 20, 2011 |
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Obama's fuel economy rules a job killer, auto dealers say
Flying squads of auto dealers descended on Washington, D.C., in late September. Amped up by a rabble-rousing talk by House Speaker John Boehner and clutching copies of a dealers' association pamphlet entitled "A Flawed Fuel ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Oct 03, 2011 |
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PPPL lets teachers hitch a ride on NASA's Zero-G
Time seemed to stop. Teachers Alison Miller of South Brunswick High School and Darrell Williams of Fisher Middle School in Ewing floated over their science experiments, wearing olive-drab green jumpsuits -- ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 16, 2011 |
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Transforming robotics with biologically inspired learning models
I walked into the building and there was a human-sized robot waiting to greet me.
Jun 13, 2011 |
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Aqua satellite sees severe weather in northwest Georgia
Northwestern Georgia felt the effects of severe weather season yesterday, May 27, as severe thunderstorms brought heavy rainfall, gusty winds and reports of a tornado. NASA's Aqua satellite provided an infrared ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 27, 2011 |
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