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Engineering professor creates mobile lab for testing bridges

Engineering professor creates mobile lab for testing bridges

Technology / Engineering

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- Civil engineering students at the University of Rhode Island will soon take to the roadways to apply what they have learned in the classroom in real-world analyses of bridges, buildings and ...


Controlling key enzyme in brain offers clue for future obesity treatment

Controlling key enzyme in brain offers clue for future obesity treatment

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

The Sirt1 enzyme in the body has generated enormous attention as a possible secret to living longer. Some scientists believe that fasting and drinking wine appear to aid in this quest because both likely activate ...


Oceanic crust formation is dynamic after all

Oceanic crust formation is dynamic after all

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Imagine the Earth's crust as the planet's skin: Some areas are old and wrinkled while others have a fresher, more youthful sheen, as if they had been regularly lathered with lotion.


Ending the cycle of poverty

Ending the cycle of poverty

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- While many academically talented high-school students in Providence, Rhode Island, are figuring out what outfit to wear to school on a particular day, other top grade-earners are busily getting ...


New guidelines for treating complicated skin and soft tissue infections

Medicine & Health / Other

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

New evidence-based recommendations developed by the Surgical Infection Society to guide physicians in the diagnosis and management of complicated skin and soft tissue infections have been published in Surgical Infections.


Hawaiian hot spot has deep roots

Hawaiian hot spot has deep roots

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Hawaii may be paradise for vacationers, but for geologists it has long been a puzzle. Plate tectonic theory readily explains the existence of volcanoes at boundaries where plates split apart ...


Researchers take part in DNA sequencing for entire Pacific island

Researchers plan DNA sequencing for entire Pacific island

Biology / Plants & Animals

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Florida researchers are collecting marine invertebrates on the French Polynesian island of Moorea as part of a massive effort to inventory the DNA sequence of every living species ...


New screening tool helps identify children at risk

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

When a baby is born, new parents often wonder, "Will he be the next President of the United States?" or "Could she be the one to find a cure for cancer?" But the underlying question for many specialists is, "Is this child ...


Research finds happiest US States match a million Americans' own happiness states

Research finds happiest US States match a million Americans' own happiness states

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (6) | comments 18

New research by the UK's University of Warwick and Hamilton College in the US into the happiness levels of a million individual US citizens have revealed their personal happiness levels closely correlate ...


Tremors between slip events: More evidence of great quake danger to Seattle

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- For most of a decade, scientists have documented unfelt and slow-moving seismic events, called episodic tremor and slip, showing up in regular cycles under the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state and Vancouver ...



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