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Toward long-range beach forecasts on bacterial contamination

Toward long-range beach forecasts on bacterial contamination

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 30, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Long-range forecasts of beach bacterial contamination are inching closer to reality because of a new water quality prediction method scheduled for publication in the July 15 issue of the ACS' Environmental Sc ...





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Report: FBI probes hacker attack on Citigroup (AP)

Report: FBI probes hacker attack on Citigroup

Technology / Internet

created 16 hours ago | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- The FBI is investigating a hacker attack on Citigroup Inc. that led to the theft of tens of millions of dollars, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.


Immersive Game System Allows Physical Interaction Between Players

Immersive Game System Allows Physical Interaction Between Players

Technology / Computer Sciences

created 17 hours ago | popularity 4.4 / 5 (12) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- With a new immersive multiplayer game system, researchers are further blurring the line between gaming and the real world. Using a mouse and keyboard sounds kind of quaint compared to the ...


'Invisible bracelet' for emergency health alerts?

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(AP) -- Emergency health alerts for the Facebook generation? The nation's ambulance crews are pushing a virtual medical ID system to rapidly learn a patient's health history during a crisis - and which can immediately text-message ...


Dutch researchers explore advanced brain diagnostic techniques

Dutch researchers explore advanced brain diagnostic techniques

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

At present the task of diagnosing brain disorders using electroencephalography (EEG) is still performed by humans, but in years to come it will increasingly be taken over by computerized systems. This will ...


Medical simulators can breathe, bleed, give birth -- and help students hone skills

Medicine & Health / Other

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

It was a high-stress situation for three nurses who had never delivered babies: A woman was 32 weeks pregnant, in pain and having contractions.


Astronauts blast off for Christmas space mission (AP)

Astronauts blast off for Christmas space mission

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- A Russian rocket blasted off from a cosmodrome in Kazakhstan lighting up the frigid Central Asian steppe Monday, shuttling an American, a Russian and a Japanese to the International Space Station.


How to Find Signs of Life on Mars

How to Find Signs of Life on Mars

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

By studying the signatures of fossil life on Earth, geobiologists can get a clue of what to look for when hunting for extraterrestrial life on Mars.


JooJoo

A new generation of computer tablets is on its way

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (7) | comments 2

I may have caught a glimpse of the future last week. In San Francisco, a startup company called Fusion Garage showed off the JooJoo, a touch-screen device that looks like the iPhone's big brother. The JooJoo ...


YouTube music label means all artists are with the bandwidth

Technology / Internet

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Craig Benzine had weathered almost 10 years with his band, Chicago-based indie rockers Driftless Pony Club -- self-releasing two albums along the way -- with no luck.


Researcher studies the universe through quantum electrodynamics

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (9) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Fundamental constants, such as the standards for length and mass, are a given in our society. However, research has shown that these constants might be changing slightly with the expansion of the universe.



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