(AP) -- Women who took the birth control pill beginning in the late 1960s lived longer than those never on the pill, a new study says.

Medicine & Health - Health

Mar 12, 2010 4.5 / 5 (4) 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Buried below the tundra of China’s Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is a type of frozen natural gas containing methane and ice crystals that could supply energy to China for 90 years. China discovered ...

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

Mar 12, 2010 4.7 / 5 (23) 13 |

Cardiovascular disease is one of the most significant causes of death in the world, and around 1 million Dutch citizens have a cardiovascular condition. Andries van der Meer of the University of Twente, The ...

Medicine & Health - Medical research

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In the future it may be considerably easier for orchestras to tour. Jeannine Han, who is in the second year of her master's program in textiles and fashion design at the Swedish School of Textiles in Boras, ...

Technology - Other

Mar 12, 2010 3 / 5 (2) 0

A University of Michigan study recently published in Academic Emergency Medicine says that it is common for patients 65 and older to receive potentially inappropriate medications when treated in an emergency room.

Medicine & Health - Other

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Except for the sound of tires rolling on the ground, the latest generation of Polaris all-terrain vehicles moves almost silently across a snowy field. Powered by an electric battery instead of a gasoline engine, ...

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

Mar 12, 2010 2.8 / 5 (4) 0

It seems longer, but it was only seven years ago that the Human Genome Project deciphered the sequence of the 3 billion nucleotides that make up a single human blueprint or genome. That project cost more than $3 billion and ...

Medicine & Health - Genetics

Mar 12, 2010 5 / 5 (12) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry and three healthcare partners are working together to determine the true cost-burden of oral cancer.

Medicine & Health - Health

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New findings that shed light on how genetic damage to muscle cell proteins can lead to the development of the rare muscle-wasting disease, nemaline myopathy, are reported today (15 March) in the Biochemical Journal.

Chemistry - Biochemistry

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The American Thoracic Society has released a new official clinical policy statement on congenital central hypoventilation syndrome (CCHS), a disorder of respiratory and autonomic nervous system (ANS) regulation. The ANS regulates ...

Medicine & Health - Medical research

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Exposing albino rats to moderately intense light has produced a new animal model for the most common cause of severe vision loss in humans.

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Mar 12, 2010 2 / 5 (1) 0

Operating computers without touching them, using only hand and arm gestures: it sounds futuristic, but it's already possible. Researcher Wim Fikkert of the Centre for Telematics and Information Technology of the University ...

Technology - Other

Mar 12, 2010 3 / 5 (1) 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Time to try Atkins again? Not so fast.

Medicine & Health - Health

Mar 12, 2010 5 / 5 (1) 2

Researchers from the Information Security Group (ISG) at Royal Holloway, University of London worked together with UK online to conduct a survey of privacy attitudes and behaviours. Focusing on our concerns ...

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

Mar 12, 2010 1 / 5 (1) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new mathematical model developed by Indiana University Bloomington and Arizona State University geographers could help communities that are in the midst of passing or reforming sex offender ...

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

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