News tagged with sore thumbs

How to text message and avoid pain

While it is well known that excessive text messaging can result in sore thumbs, less is known about its possible effects on the neck, arms and hands. Young adults with symptoms in these parts of the body use ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Blackwater game aims for fun, not controversy

(AP) -- In the world of video games, realism reigns supreme, but the makers of a game based on the infamous private security firm Blackwater are intentionally steering clear of it.

Technology / Software

created Oct 04, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (4) | comments 4

Physicists develop new insight into how disordered solids deform

In solid materials with regular atomic structures, figuring out weak points where the material will break under stress is relatively easy. But for disordered solids, like glass or sand, their disordered nature makes such ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Aug 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The sky is falling (less) onto Puget Sound

Most toxic pollution falling onto Puget Sound's waters has decreased – some by as much as 99 percent – below earlier estimates, according to a region-wide study. Despite the overall decline, the ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 04, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

BlackBerry users eye alternatives as curbs loom

(AP) -- Udoay Ghosh sat sipping coffee before an early morning flight from Dubai International Airport, looking with affection at his two - yes, two - BlackBerry smart phones laid out in front of him.

Technology / Business

created Aug 18, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Seventh Graders Find a Cave on Mars

(PhysOrg.com) -- California middle school students using the camera on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter have found lava tubes with one pit that appears to be a skylight to a cave.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 17, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (39) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

The science of hammering

Scientists are studying hammering ability as a model for difficult motor tasks. The results, to be presented on Sunday, June 28, at the Society for Experimental Biology meeting, indicate that there is a surprising ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 28, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Singers tell Congress: Money (That's What I Want)

Jack Ely, the singer whose 1963 version of "Louie Louie" still makes the rounds on oldies radio, lives with his wife in a mobile home on a horse ranch in Oregon. Ely says they share $30,000 a year from her teacher's pension ...

Technology / Internet

created May 04, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 3

UA Physicists Ready for Science with World's Most Powerful Accelerator

The University of Arizona is known for doing Big Science. It partners in the most powerful telescope projects on Earth and in space. It makes the world's largest telescope mirrors. It leads a global center ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 28, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Satellites can help Arctic grazers survive killer winter storms

Rain falling on snow sounds like a relatively harmless weather event, but when it happens in the far north it can mean lingering death for reindeer, musk oxen and other animals that normally graze on the Arctic ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 18, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Polluted Dead Star Indicates Planets Like Earth May Have Formed Around Other Stars, Astronomers Report

The chemical fingerprint of a burned-out star indicates that Earth-like planets may not be rare in the universe and could give clues to what our solar system will look like when our sun dies and becomes a ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Aug 17, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (42) | comments 0


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