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Scientists seek safe carbon dioxide storage for 'greener' power generation (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced plans to fund research at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Engineering on technologies that would help reduce greenhouse gas emissions through the capture ...


Significant regional variations exist regarding proximity to burn centers

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Although nearly 80 percent of the U.S. population lives within 2 hours by ground or helicopter transport to a verified burn center, there is substantial state and regional variation in geographic access to these centers, ...


Director general and CEO of the International Air Transport Association Giovanni Bisignani

Biofuel for commercial flights by 2010: IATA

Technology / Energy

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) said Friday it would approve biofuels for commercial flights by 2010 in a bid to drastically reduce the industry's carbon footprint.


New science approach to revolutionize welding

New science approach to revolutionize welding

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

A multi-million pound engineering research project is using advanced thinking to revolutionise the welding industry - and offering the prospect of saving lives.


Maths Research Tackles Problems of Bike + Car

Maths Research Tackles Problems of Bike + Car

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The efforts to get more people out of cars and on their bikes in the UK could be being hampered by Governments' own transport strategies, claims new research from the University of Derby.


Come on in: Nuclear barrier less restrictive than expected in new cells

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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

When it comes to the two basic types of cells, prokaryotes and eukaryotes, compartmentalization is everything. Prokaryotes are evolutionarily ancient cells that only have a membrane surrounding their outer boundary, while ...


Driver misjudgment and landscape variations cause collisions at stop sign intersections

Driver misjudgment and landscape variations cause collisions at stop sign intersections

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stop signs are supposed to be traffic safety tools, but how effective are they? According to one Ryerson University researcher, intersections with stop signs can be some of the deadliest places ...


Sky Pods

Are Magnetically Levitating 'Sky Pods' the Future of Travel?

Technology / Hi Tech

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (26) | comments 47

(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 ...


It's a grind to make Mars red

It's a grind to make Mars red

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 18, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- The widespread idea that Mars is red due to rocks being rusted by the water that once flooded the red planet may be wrong. Recent laboratory studies show that the red dust may be formed by ...


Fields of miscanthus in the English landscape

Perennial energy crops could be good for carbon savings and for wildlife

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Growing the energy crops short rotation coppice (SRC) willow and miscanthus grass could help the UK to reduce carbon emissions and benefit wildlife, according to researchers from the UK Research Councils’ ...


New method can predict 80% of cases of postnatal depression

New method can predict 80% of cases of postnatal depression

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Worldwide, 13% of women who give birth suffer from postnatal depression, which causes a significant deterioration in a mother's quality of life and her ability to care for her baby. Now, Spanish researchers ...


1 in 20 patients experience critical event during urgent air-medical transport

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

During air-medical transport of acutely-ill patients, 1 in 20 experience a critical event such as death, major resuscitation or blood pressure deterioration according to a new study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Jo ...


Premium info for car drivers

Premium info for car drivers

Technology / Engineering

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- What will the weather be like over the next few hours on the A3 between Nuremberg and Würzburg in Germany? Could fog be a problem? A new system will enable automakers to offer their customers ...


Impaired transport in neurons triggers prion disease

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new study shows that nervous system integrity and axonal properties may play a key role in prion diseases. The findings, from researchers at the Rudolf Virchow Center and the Institute of Virology of the University of Würzburg, ...


Home, James - public transport gets personal

Technology / Hi Tech

created Aug 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A European research project has developed technologies that pave the way for highly efficient unmanned public transport systems in our cities.




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