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GLAST in Orbit

GLAST mission operations at NASA Goddard powered up

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 02, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Several bases of operations for NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) are gearing up for data from the recently launched satellite.





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Falling public support for health-care reform can be turned around

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Survey results published this week in the journal Health Affairs show that while only 27 percent of adults currently support the U.S. Senate Finance Committee's proposed healthcare legislation, an amended bill could gain ...


Pelvic floor muscle exercises can help manage urinary incontinence in older women

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at Rush University Medical Center have found that a program of pelvic floor muscle exercises, combined with pelvic health education, can be an effective way to manage urinary incontinence in elderly women.


Space shuttle Atlantis, 7 astronauts back on Earth (AP)

Space shuttle Atlantis, 7 astronauts back on Earth

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Space shuttle Atlantis and its crew of seven astronauts ended an 11-day journey of nearly 4.5 million miles with a 9:44 a.m. EST landing Friday at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.


Computerized support keeps prominence of name brand drugs at bay

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Simple computerized alerts can help curb the impulse to prescribe unnecessarily expensive, heavily marketed drugs. A study in the August issue of Journal of General Internal Medicine found that when clinicians received comput ...


Students Send Microbe Experiment on Space Shuttle Atlantis

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An experiment by college students that will study how microbes grow in microgravity is heading to orbit aboard space shuttle Atlantis.


NASA's new moon rocket makes first test flight (AP)

NASA's Ares I-X moon rocket makes first test flight

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (25) | comments 17

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Ares I-X test rocket lifted off at 11:30 a.m. EDT Wednesday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a two-minute powered flight.


Researchers report poor outcomes for CCI patients leaving hospitals on ventilators

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Patients, discharged from hospitals on ventilator support and with cognitive impairments, fare poorly four months later. Researchers from the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University report ...


Deaths to local soldiers matter in shaping war opinion

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Americans think locally when they consider whether the loss of U.S. troops overseas warrants troop withdrawals, a new nationwide study suggests.


NASA Develops Algae Bioreactor as a Sustainable Energy Source

Chemistry / Other

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- As a clean energy alternative, NASA invented an algae photo-bioreactor that grows algae in municipal wastewater to produce biofuel and a variety of other products.


Study shows how substance in grapes may squeeze out diabetes

Study shows how substance in grapes may squeeze out diabetes

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0

A naturally produced molecule called resveratrol, found in the skin of red grapes, has been shown to lower insulin levels in mice when injected directly into the brain, even when the animals ate a high-fat ...



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