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Scientist Working to Find Cure for Common Bloodstream Infection
Dec 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Bloodstream infections frequently occur and commonly cause death among critically ill patients. Scientists at the University of Maine may have unlocked the answer to treating one of these infections that ...
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Driving water droplets uphill
Apr 02, 2008 |
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Lab-on-a-chip technology could soon simplify a host of applications, thanks to a new way to move droplets up vertical surfaces on flexible chips.
Whirligig beetle gets rock 'n' roll legendary name
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Jan 28, 2008 |
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An unusual new species of whirligig beetle from India is being named Orectochilus orbisonorum in honor of the late rock ‘n’ roll legend Roy Orbison and his widow Barbara.
Doctors may be giving the wrong dosage of adrenaline in an emergency because of labelling
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Jan 01, 2008 |
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A new study by Cambridge University reveals that doctors treating life-threatening emergencies such as allergy attacks may give the wrong dosage of adrenaline (epinephrine) because of confusing labelling.
Entomologists name 'diving beetle' for Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert
May 06, 2009 |
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"What has six legs and is way cooler than a spider?" asks a riddle on the cover of a birthday card sent to Stephen Colbert by entomologists Quentin Wheeler at Arizona State University and Kelly Miller at the ...
UGA research explores little-known chapter in college desegregation
Jan 09, 2009 |
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Many of the battles to desegregate Southern colleges and universities were fought in public, but efforts to desegregate the standardized testing that is often a prerequisite to admission have, until now, received little attention. ...
Researchers develop new lab-on-a-chip technique
Oct 07, 2009 |
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Scientists at the University of Toronto have developed a new "lab-on-a-chip" technique that analyses tiny samples of blood and breast tissue to identify women at risk of breast cancer much more quickly than ever before.
Parsing the genome of a deadly brain tumor
Sep 06, 2008 |
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The most comprehensive to-date genomic analysis of a cancer – the deadly brain tumor glioblastoma multiforme – shows previously unrecognized changes in genes and provides an overall view of the missteps in the pathways that ...
Astronomers find most powerful supernova
Oct 11, 2007 |
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Astronomer Robert Quimby has again found the most luminous supernova. Quimby discovered the current record holder, supernova 2006gy, last year as part of his Texas Supernova Search project. Now he has announced ...
Physicist John Wheeler, Einstein collaborator, dead at 96
Apr 15, 2008 |
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US physicist John Wheeler, one of Albert Einstein's last collaborators who helped build the atomic bomb and gave black holes their name, died at the weekend, his family said. He was 96.
Vodafone to sell iPhone in Britain
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Sep 28, 2009 |
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Vodafone on Tuesday became the latest mobile phone operator to announce it will begin selling iPhones in Britain following the expiry of O2's exclusive deal with Apple.
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