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Baby teeth re-studied for effects of radiation fallout

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Questionnaires will soon be sent to thousands of men who donated their baby teeth half a century ago to scientists seeking to learn whether radioactive fallout in milk the donors drank as children affected their health later ...





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Steering the Ares Rockets on a Straight Path

Steering the Ares Rockets on a Straight Path

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created 17 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Ares I-X rocket stood more than 325 feet tall on the launch pad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla. Spectators watched in awe as its massive solid rocket motor blazed to life with a thunderous ...


Shop before you sign a data contract for a netbook

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created 23 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Netbooks with built-in 3G wireless Internet access are all the rage this holiday season. But before you sign on the dotted line at your local AT&T or Verizon Wireless store and commit yourself to a two-year contract, consider ...


Cisco to proceed with $3.4 billion Tandberg deal

Technology / Business

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Cisco Systems Inc. says it is waiving its condition that 90 percent of shareholders of Norwegian videoconferencing equipment firm Tandberg ASA back its $3.4 billion takeover offer and will close the deal as soon ...


Scientists use virus to kill cancer cells while leaving normal cells intact

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A virus that in nature infects only rabbits could become a cancer-fighting tool for humans. Myxoma virus kills cancerous blood-precursor cells in human bone marrow while sparing normal blood stem cells, a ...


Love hurts: Why emotional pain really affects us

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Have you ever felt overly upset by a social snubbing? Your genetics, not your friends, may be at fault.


A greener way to get electricity from natural gas

A greener way to get electricity from natural gas

Technology / Energy

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (12) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new type of natural-gas electric power plant proposed by MIT researchers could provide electricity with zero carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere, at costs comparable to or less than ...


Ted Turner gets OK for Yellowstone bison on ranch (AP)

Ted Turner gets OK for Yellowstone bison on ranch

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- The head of Montana's wildlife agency has given preliminary approval to a plan calling for 74 bison from Yellowstone National Park to go to billionaire Ted Turner's private ranch.


STPSat-1 successfully completes extended mission

STPSat-1 successfully completes extended mission

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The STPSat-1, built for the Department of Defense (DoD) Space Test Program (STP) and operated by the DoD STP for the first year then transitioned to NRL for the last 16 months, was decommissioned on October ...


Team approach results in dramatic improvement in timely heart attack care

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Healthcare professionals using new time-saving strategies to coordinate care for patients having a heart attack saw dramatic improvement in "door-to-balloon" (D2B) times—the time from when a patient enters the hospital to ...


Santa's Sleigh: NC State Researcher Explains Science Behind St. Nick?s Christmas Magic

Santa's Sleigh: Researcher Explains Science Behind St. Nick's Christmas Magic

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- Santa skeptics have long considered St. Nick’s ability to deliver toys to the world’s good girls and boys in the course of one night a scientific impossibility. But new research shows that ...



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