Archive: 02/23/2007
Engineering modifications enhance aircraft safety
Modifications of an aircraft control system developed by University of Leicester engineers, have been tested by flight test engineers from the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and German Air Force test pilots.
Feb 23, 2007 |
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1 in 3 boys heavy porn users, study shows
Boys aged 13 and 14 living in rural areas, are the most likely of their age group to access pornography, and parents need to be more aware of how to monitor their children’s viewing habits, according to a new University of ...
Feb 23, 2007 |
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Low-cost Parkinson's disease diagnostic test a world first
Scientists at Melbourne 's Howard Florey Institute have developed a cost-effective diagnostic test for Parkinson's disease (PD), which will also assist researchers to understand the genetic basis of PD and to undertake large-scale ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 23, 2007 |
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Fluid dynamics theory works on nanoscale outside vacuum
In 2000, Georgia Tech researchers showed that fluid dynamics theory could be modified to work on the nanoscale, albeit in a vacuum. Now, seven years later they've shown that it can be modified to work in the ...
Feb 23, 2007 |
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Chain Mail Fabric a Perfect Fit
Contemporaries of the ancient Greeks might find something familiar within the walls of the Micro and Nanotechnology Lab at the University of Illinois. In constructing a new type of smart fabric, researchers ...
Feb 23, 2007 |
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Caffeine may prevent heart disease death in elderly
Habitual intake of caffeinated beverages provides protection against heart disease mortality in the elderly, say researchers at SUNY Downstate Medical Center and Brooklyn College.
Feb 23, 2007 |
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Climate changes, Cod collapse have altered North Atlantic ecosystems
Ecosystems along the continental shelf waters of the Northwest Atlantic Ocean, from the Labrador Sea south of Greenland all the way to North Carolina, are experiencing large, rapid changes, reports a Cornell oceanographer ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 23, 2007 |
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New measure of sexual arousal found for both men and women
According to a new study published in the latest issue of The Journal of Sexual Medicine and conducted in the Department of Psychology of McGill University, thermography shows great promise as a diagnostic method of measur ...
Feb 23, 2007 |
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Genetic hearing loss may be reversible without gene therapy
A large proportion of genetically caused deafness in humans may be reversible by compensating for a missing protein, based on discoveries in mice.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 23, 2007 |
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Children should not be left unsupervised with dogs, say experts
Children should not be left unsupervised to play with a dog, say experts in this week’s BMJ. Their advice is part of a review aimed at doctors who deal with dog bites.
Feb 23, 2007 |
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Professor demonstrates new hydrogen fuel system
Northern Nevada energy consumers can be excused if they have a sense of "sticker shock" when their power bills come due following the holiday season. Or, that they have a feeling of powerlessness as the price of gasoline ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Feb 23, 2007 |
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Study finds advanced 20th-century geometry in 15th-century tilings
Intricate decorative tilework found in medieval architecture across the Islamic world appears to exhibit advanced decagonal quasicrystal geometry -- a concept discovered by Western mathematicians and physicists ...
Feb 23, 2007 |
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