News tagged with transport system
Hidden threat: Elevated pollution levels near regional airports
Nov 18, 2009 |
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Scientists are reporting evidence that air pollution — a well-recognized problem at major airports — may pose an important but largely overlooked health concern for people living near smaller regional airports. ...
Are Magnetically Levitating 'Sky Pods' the Future of Travel?
Sep 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As a society, we are increasingly interested in finding new ways of transportation that are cleaner for the environment. New concepts in mass transit seem to be one of the main ways to move ...
Home, James - public transport gets personal
Aug 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A European research project has developed technologies that pave the way for highly efficient unmanned public transport systems in our cities.
Tiny but toxic: Researchers discover a mechanism of neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease
Mar 26, 2009 |
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Tiny, toxic protein particles severely disrupt neurotransmission and inhibit delivery of key proteins in Alzheimer's disease, two separate studies by Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) researchers have found.
City buses turn to sewage for 'clean' fuel
Mar 22, 2009 |
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Can the key to "clean" energy be found down in the sewer? That's the idea in Oslo, where city officials soon plan to introduce buses that run on biofuels extracted from human waste.
Mechanism of Alzheimer's suggests combination therapy needed
Mar 17, 2009 |
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Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine have discovered a mode of action for mysterious but diagnostic protein snarls found in the brains of Alzheimer's patients that suggests a one-two punch ...
