News tagged with threat
Racing the clock: Rapid climate change forces scientists to evaluate extreme conservation strategies
May 25, 2009 |
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Scientists are, for the first time, objectively evaluating ways to help species adapt to rapid climate change and other environmental threats via strategies that were considered too radical for serious consideration as recently ...
Report documents the risks of giant invasive snakes in the US
Oct 13, 2009 |
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Five giant non-native snake species would pose high risks to the health of ecosystems in the United States should they become established here, according to a U.S. Geological Survey report released today.
Cisco offering computing cloud protection
Apr 21, 2009 |
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Cisco on Tuesday unveiled tools to harden computer network defenses of businesses that use software applications as services on the Internet.
Predicting pandemics: HealthMap.org tracks emerging hot spots in real time
Dec 24, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- At the end of July 2008, major news agencies reported an outbreak of jalapeño-related salmonella that sickened more than 1,000 people in Mexico and the United States. It was the biggest outbreak ...
Scientists discover why flies are so hard to swat
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Aug 28, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Over the past two decades, Michael Dickinson has been interviewed by reporters hundreds of times about his research on the biomechanics of insect flight. One question from the press has always dogged him: ...
Amphibians as environmental omen disputed
Nov 11, 2009 |
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Amphibians, for years considered a leading indicator of environmental degradation, are not uniquely susceptible to pollution, according to a meta-analysis to be published in Ecology Letters.
Calling it in: New emergency medical service system may predict caller's fate
Oct 21, 2009 |
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Japanese researchers have developed a computer program which may be able tell from an emergency call if you are about to die. Research published in the open access journal BMC Emergency Medicine shows that a computer algori ...
Psychological headwind keeps women, minorities from sprinting ahead of their peers, study finds
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Let's say a white student and a black student both score 1020 on their SATs. They're performing right around the national average, so based on their scores it stands to reason they're both typical students ...
New study finds MRSA on the rise in hospital outpatients
Nov 24, 2009 |
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The community-associated strain of the deadly superbug MRSA -- an infection-causing bacteria resistant to most common antibiotics -- poses a far greater health threat than previously known and is making its way into hospitals, ...
Panel: Overzealous rules may stifle germ research
Sep 30, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A panel of university and private-sector scientists urged Congress on Thursday not to overregulate laboratories that handle the world's deadliest pathogens, saying it could have a chilling effect on research of biological ...
Forest Service Web-based tool helps manage environmental risk
Sep 25, 2009 |
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The U.S. Forest Service Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center (EFETAC) recently launched the Comparative Risk Assessment Framework and Tools (CRAFT), a user-friendly, Web-based support system that helps natural ...
Northwestern United States could face more tamarisk invasion by century's end
Sep 15, 2009 |
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If the future warming trends that scientists have projected are realized, one of the country's most aggressive exotic plants will have the potential to invade more U.S. land area, according to a new study published in the ...
'Stereotype threat' could affect exam performance of ethnic minority medical students
Aug 18, 2008 |
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The underperformance in examinations of UK medical students from ethnic minorities could be partly down to a psychological phenomenon called 'stereotype threat', according to new UCL research published today in the British Me ...
Landscape study may offer solutions for fire managers
Jul 24, 2008 |
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A fire is currently burning through a study area where projections were made about fire behavior about 2 years ago. Managers used data and analysis from the Gotchen Late-Successional Reserve (LSR) study in the planning, analysis, ...
