Archive: 10/23/2009
Solar lantern lights up rural India's dark nights
For more than 100 Indian villages cut off from grid electricity, life no longer comes to an end after dark thanks to an innovative solar-powered lantern that offers hope to the nation's rural poor.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Oct 23, 2009 |
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Scientists seek origins of obesity in the womb
(AP) -- When Kathy Perusse had weight-loss surgery and shed 120 pounds, she may have done more than make her own life easier.
Oct 23, 2009 |
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Poll: US belief in global warming is cooling
(AP) -- Americans seem to be cooling toward global warming.
Oct 23, 2009 |
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Paradigm shift: How Galileo's spy glass upended science
Today it would hardly pass muster as a child's plaything, but the telescope Galileo used 400 years ago this week to peer into the heavens overturned the foundations of knowledge, changing our perception of ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 23, 2009 |
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Google co-founder Brin prefers Yahoo! without Bing
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has expressed amazement at resistance to the Internet giant's efforts to digitize the world's books and lamented a deal to have Microsoft handle online search at Yahoo!
Oct 23, 2009 |
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'Difficult-to-treat asthma' may be due to difficult-to-treat patients
Difficult-to-treat asthma often may have more to do with patients who do not take their medication as instructed than ineffective medication, according to researchers in Northern Ireland.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 23, 2009 |
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New research suggests how low doses of radiation can cause heart disease and stroke
A mathematical model constructed by researchers at Imperial College London predicts the risk of cardiovascular disease (heart attacks, stroke) associated with low background levels of radiation. The model shows that the ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 23, 2009 |
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NY officials rescind mandatory H1N1 flu shot order
(AP) -- New York state health officials have suspended a ruling that would have forced health care workers across the state to get vaccinated against the swine flu by the end of November or risk losing their ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 23, 2009 |
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Patients in US 5 times more likely to spend last days in ICU than patients in England
Patients who die in the hospital in the United States are almost five times as likely to have spent part of their last hospital stay in the ICU than patients in England. What's more, over the age of 85, ICU usage among terminal ...
Oct 23, 2009 |
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Important new novel 2009 H1N1 flu advisory for cardiopulmonary transplantation
Each year 3-5 million people have severe cases and 250-500,000 die from complications of seasonal influenza world-wide. This year, the novel 2009 H1N1 (nH1N1) influenza, previously called swine flu, has reached pandemic status. ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 23, 2009 |
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Panel says NASA should skip moon, fly elsewhere (Update)
(AP) -- NASA needs to make a major detour on its grand plans to return astronauts to the moon, a special independent panel told the White House Thursday.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 23, 2009 |
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