Archive: 06/30/2009
New research shows a global trend in nature-based tourism
A new study out today found that many nations throughout the world, including the United Kingdom, are seeing an annual increase in visitors to their conservation areas.
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Stress in the womb can last a lifetime, say researchers behind new exhibit
Visitors can see how their stress levels could affect the heart rate of their unborn baby and find out why pregnant women should reduce their anxiety, at a new exhibit at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition, which ...
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Study to see if video games can boost thinking skills in elderly
Researchers at North Carolina State University and the Georgia Institute of Technology have received a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study whether and how video games can boost ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 30, 2009 |
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From human bite to robot jaws
The UK spends around £2.5 billion each year on dental materials to replace or strengthen teeth. The Chewing Robot is a new biologically inspired way to test dental materials and it will be shown to the public ...
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Carbon Nanotubes Continue To Show Promise in Battle Against Cancer
Carbon nanotubes, one of the original engineered nanomaterials, also may prove to be among the most versatile, as numerous teams of investigators continue to develop novel nanotube-based therapeutic and diagnostic tools. ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
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FDA panel to vote on painkiller restrictions
(AP) -- Government experts are scheduled to vote on whether Nyquil and other combination cold medications should be pulled from the market to help curb deadly overdoses.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jun 30, 2009 |
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Paleontologists brought to tears, laughter by Creation Museum
For a group of paleontologists, a tour of the Creation Museum seemed like a great tongue-in-cheek way to cap off a serious conference.
Jun 30, 2009 |
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Report: Worst may be over for US tech market
(AP) -- As bad as the technology market fared in the first quarter of this year, the worst may be over, at least in the United States, Forrester Research said in a report Tuesday.
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Mean, green machine - future of motor racing
Cars powered by chocolate, steered by carrots with drivers sitting on soybean oil foam seats - it's motor racing's cheap, cheerful and environmentally-friendly series of the future.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jun 30, 2009 |
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Jackson's death unleashes barrage of online scams
(AP) -- Minutes after any big celebrity dies, Internet swindlers get to work. They pump out specially created spam e-mails and throw up malicious Web sites to infect victims' computers, hoping to capitalize on the sudden ...
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Researchers describe the 90-year evolution of swine flu
The current H1N1 swine flu strain has genetic roots in an illness that sickened pigs at the 1918 Cedar Rapids Swine Show in Iowa, report infectious disease experts at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
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Exploring how the body adapts to exercise at altitude-hypoxia affects muscle and nerve responses
Exercise requires the integrated activity of every organ and tissue in the body, and understanding how these respond to the decreased oxygen levels present at moderate to high altitude is the focus of the current special ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
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Study finds improved communication encourages patients to seek colorectal cancer screening
Improved communication among patients and primary care physicians increases the chances those due for colorectal cancer screening will follow their doctors' advice and complete the procedure, a University at Buffalo study ...
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