Archive: 09/29/2009
Among the new features in CNN iPhone app: a price
(AP) -- CNN is coming out with an iPhone application Tuesday that has a feature few other news apps have tried: a price tag.
Sep 29, 2009 |
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Perfect image without metamaterials... and a reprieve for silicon chips (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Since 2000, John Pendry's work on metamaterials has been at the van guard of efforts to create a perfect image - images with perfect resolution that can stem from light being moved in odd ...
Sep 29, 2009 |
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Women who make poor shoe choices at risk for foot pain later in life
A recently published study determined that women who make poor shoe choices early in life suffer with foot pain in later years. Research shows that men do not experience the same foot pain as women, due to ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sep 29, 2009 |
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Considering usual medical care in clinical trial design
In this week's PLoS Medicine, Liza Dawson (National Institutes of Health) and colleagues discuss the scientific and ethical issues associated with choosing clinical trial designs when there is no consensus on what consti ...
Sep 29, 2009 |
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Risk of bone fractures associated with use of diabetes drug
Research published this week in the open access journal, PLoS Medicine, suggests that there is an association between thiazolidinediones - a type of drug introduced in the 1990s to treat type 2 diabetes - and bone fractu ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Sep 29, 2009 |
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Electric fish plug in to communicate
(PhysOrg.com) -- Just as people plug in to computers, smart phones and electric outlets to communicate, electric fish communicate by quickly plugging special channels into their cells to generate electrical ...
Sep 29, 2009 |
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From grass to water, Chesapeake Bay experts differ on meaning of 'clean'
After a recent rain, Baltimore's Inner Harbor is clogged with an eclectic combination of garbage -- soda bottles and a large purple ball, sticks and dirt, candy wrappers and a hollowed-out television.
Sep 29, 2009 |
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Senate climate-change bill to be unveiled this week
Two top Senate Democrats are set to introduce a climate-change bill this week that would put new limits on carbon emissions, as world leaders prepare for a climate summit in Denmark after agreement last week by the G20 nations ...
Sep 29, 2009 |
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