News tagged with women engineering
UWM study explores why women leave engineering careers
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 06, 2009 |
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While only one in 10 male engineers leave their field by the time they reach their 30s, about one in four women are not working in engineering despite having completed the necessary education.
Education practices influence women engineer shortage, study finds
Dec 30, 2008 |
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As the need for engineering professionals grows, educators and industry leaders are increasingly concerned with how to attract women to a traditional male career. A new University of Missouri study found the impact of the ...
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Heart and bone damage from low vitamin D tied to declines in sex hormones
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Researchers at Johns Hopkins are reporting what is believed to be the first conclusive evidence in men that the long-term ill effects of vitamin D deficiency are amplified by lower levels of the key sex hormone estrogen, ...
Scientists pinpoint origin of dissolved arsenic in Bangladesh drinking water
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Researchers in MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering believe they have pinpointed a pathway by which arsenic may be contaminating the drinking water in Bangladesh, a phenomenon that has puzzled ...
Thoughtful words help couples stay fighting fit
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 13, 2009 |
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Couples who bring thoughtful words to a fight release lower amounts of stress-related proteins, suggesting that rational communication between partners can ease the impact of marital conflict on the immune system.
Robots perform Shakespeare to learn how to save people
Nov 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Flying robot fairies are joining human actors in Texas A&M University?s production of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, which runs through Sunday (Nov. 15) in the Rudder Forum.
Students Send Microbe Experiment on Space Shuttle Atlantis
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An experiment by college students that will study how microbes grow in microgravity is heading to orbit aboard space shuttle Atlantis.
Can thinking of a loved one reduce your pain?
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- "The very thought of you ... the mere idea of you" -- from the song "The Very Thought of You" by Ray Noble. Can the mere thought of your loved one reduce your pain?
Goddard Team Develops New Carriers for ISS
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 13, 2009 |
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In a partnership that exemplifies the One NASA theme, Goddard Space Flight Center engineers teamed up with the External Payloads Group at Johnson Space Center and the ISS Payload Ground Processing support ...
Researchers take the lead out of piezoelectrics
Nov 13, 2009 |
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There is good news for the global effort to reduce the amount of lead in the environment and for the growing array of technologies that rely upon the piezoelectric effect. A lead-free alternative to the current ...
Fat collections linked to decreased heart function
Nov 13, 2009 |
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Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have shown that fat collection in different body locations, such as around the heart and the aorta and within the liver, are associated with certain decreased heart ...
Digital cloud may rise over London (w/ Video)
Nov 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An international group of artists, engineers and architects have proposed an enormous "digital cloud" to turn London's skyline into an overhead display of data and images.
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