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Supplements no better than placebo in slowing cartilage loss in knees of osteoarthritis patients

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 29, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

In a two-year multicenter study led by University of Utah doctors, the dietary supplements glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate performed no better than placebo in slowing the rate of cartilage loss in the knees of osteoarthritis ...





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Space hotel taking bookings for 2012 opening

Space hotel taking bookings for 2012 opening

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (21) | comments 11

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first orbiting space hotel is on track to open for its first customers in 2012, but hurry, as bookings are filling fast.


Eve--named after Sir Richard's Mom

Sir Richard Branson All Fired Up With Latest Rocket Motor Test

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 31, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 16

Virgin Galactic owned by Sir Richard Branson completed a successful test on May 28, 2009 of its hybrid nitrous oxide motor designed by Scaled Composites and a subcontractor Sierra Nevada Corporation. The ...


MIT Student Takes Pictures from Space on Less Than $150 (w/ Video)

MIT Student Takes Pictures from Space on Less Than $150 (w/ Video)

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (16) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- When we think of taking pictures of the earth from space, we assume that a great deal of money has to be spent on high-tech equipment and complex vehicles to get the camera up there. But, ...


Spider on International Space Station

Spider Payload on Space Station Becomes a Media Hit, Internet Music Video

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 25, 2008 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (20) | comments 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Colorado at Boulder payload of web-spinning spiders and wannabe butterflies delivered to the International Space Station by the space shuttle Endeavour Nov. 14 has generated ...


STS-126 ISS Starboard Section

Endeavour's Orbiting Tool Bag Can Be Seen Using 10 x 50 Binoculars

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 27, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (27) | comments 10

(PhysOrg.com) -- Endeavor astronaut Heidi Stefanyshyn-Piper's loss has turned out to be an amateur star gazers' event of the season. The $100,000 tool bag slipped out of her reach and floated into space while ...


Typhoon Morakot's cloud top extent doubled in size in 1 day

Typhoon Morakot's cloud top extent doubled in size in one day

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Satellite imagery over the last two days has shown Typhoon Morakot to be a monster, and over the last two days, NASA satellites have confirmed the typhoon doubled its size!


NASA creates microscopic technology for Webb Space Telescope

NASA creates microscopic technology for Webb Space Telescope

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 24, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

NASA engineers and scientists have created something that will give better information about far away galaxies. This new creation, which will be in a future space telescope, is so tiny that it's the width of ...


UBC engineering students unveil moon dust-shoveling robot

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A robot designed by UBC students will be shoveling moon dust at an international robotics competition next week, vying for a $500,000 prize and the opportunity to contribute to NASA's future space exploration ...


Researchers find room design can enhance patient care

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The design of a consultation room can improve the quality of a visit to the physician's office. A collaborative research study developed by Nurture by Steelcase and Mayo Clinic, was conducted to understand the extent to which ...


Wi-Fi signals can see through walls

Wi-Fi signals can see through walls

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Utah, USA, have discovered that variations in signal strengths in wireless networks can be used to "see" movements of people on the other side of walls or ...



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