News tagged with start times

False starts can sneak by in women's sprinting

Olympic timing procedures don't accurately detect false starts by female sprinters, according to a new analysis by University of Michigan researchers.

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

College students sleep longer but drink more and get lower grades when classes start later

Although a class schedule with later start times allows colleges students to get more sleep, it also gives them more time to stay out drinking at night. As a result, their grades are more likely to suffer, suggests a research ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Study finds in women with prior cesarean, optimal gestational age for elective delivery is week 39

In a study to be presented today at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting, in Dallas, Texas, researchers will report findings that indicate that for women with prior delivery via ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

India's global pharmacy role threatened by EU pact

(AP) -- Efforts by India and the European Union to strengthen trade are threatening India's ability to deliver lifesaving medicines to the world's poorest, analysts say as the two sides push through protracted ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

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Humans may have helped the decline of African rainforests 3000 years ago

(PhysOrg.com) -- Large areas of rainforests in Central Africa mysteriously disappeared over three thousand years ago, to be replaced by savannas. The prevailing theory has been that the cause was a change ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (14) | comments 16 | with audio podcast report

Study finds stress hormones fluctuate with mood during pregnancy

(Medical Xpress) -- While pregnant, women pay particular attention to factors such as diet and exercise to ensure their babies are born healthy and develop normally. New research from the University of Calgary’s Faculty ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Rockot to launch two Sentinel satellites

ESA and Eurockot today signed contracts for launching two ESA satellites: Sentinel-2A and Sentinel-3A will fly in 2013 on Rockot vehicles from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia for Europe’s GMES ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The question of life in the ancient world

There’s a general feeling that we don’t get the Greeks – ancient or modern. Many, including heads of state like Angela Merkel, visibly shake their head in exasperation, rightly or wrongly, at ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 1.3 / 5 (3) | comments 4

Seeing colors in music, tasting flavors in shapes may happen in life's early months

Famed violinist Itzhak Perlman sees a deep forest green whenever he plays a B-flat on his Stradivarius' G string. The A on the E string is red.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

SLAC, Stanford team focuses on high-energy electrons to treat cancer

Accelerator physicists at SLAC and cancer specialists from Stanford are working on a new technology that could dramatically reduce the time needed for cancer radiation treatments. The team ran an initial experiment ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Russia sounds alarm over spiralling teenage suicides

Top Russian psychiatrists on Friday called for urgent measures to battle the soaring teenage suicide rate, one of the world's highest.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

News of plaque-clearing drug tops week of major advances against Alzheimer's disease

In the last eight days, scientists have delivered a powerful one-two punch in the fight to defeat Alzheimer's disease. At the same time, the White House and members of Congress are proposing increases in Alzheimer's research ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1


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