Archive: 11/30/2007
1 in 10 patients comes to harm while in hospital
One in 10 NHS patients comes to harm while in hospital as a result of their clinical care, suggests a study in Quality and Safety in Health Care.
Nov 30, 2007 |
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An X-Ray Santa Claus in Orion
Right in time for the festive season, ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory has discovered a huge cloud of high-temperature gas resting in a spectacular nearby star-forming region, shaped somewhat like the silhouette ...
Nov 30, 2007 |
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Storm names can boost insurance costs
Some meteorologists say the National Hurricane Center is giving out more storm names, which can mean higher costs for homeowners.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 30, 2007 |
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Swedish hemp farmer wins green prize
A Swedish hemp farmer was given an environmental prize in his local community for his efforts to fight a ban on the growing of industrial hemp.
Nov 30, 2007 |
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Fluoride demand creating shortages
A fluoride shortage in the United States and Canada forced Fort Worth, Texas, to go almost two months without putting any in the public drinking water supply.
Nov 30, 2007 |
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School leader resigns over science memo
The head of the Texas Education Agency's science curriculum alleges she was forced to resign because of a memo about a talk on intelligent design.
Nov 30, 2007 |
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Aurora Borealis breaks new grounds -- and old ice
It can crush ice sideways and stay precisely on station to an accuracy of a metre. It can drill a hole 1,000 metres deep into the seabed while floating above 5,000 metres of ocean and it can generate 55 megawatts of power. ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 30, 2007 |
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New Underground Particle Detectors Proposed for Europe
Three new giant underground particle detectors have been proposed for construction in Europe that could help achieve some major milestones in physics, such as verifying the decay of a proton, which has been theorized but ...
Nov 30, 2007 |
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Researchers develop powerful tool to study the genetics of inflammation
Scientists have known which genes are linked to inflammation, but now researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center have organized this information to develop a powerful tool to aid investigators in studying ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 30, 2007 |
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New system for classifying infant lung disease developed
A new classification system of rare lung diseases in infants is improving diagnosis and treatment. The system clears up considerable confusion about how to classify and treat diseases that are rarely seen by most doctors ...
Nov 30, 2007 |
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String of Fullerene Pearls
Under an atomic force microscope, the tiny structures look like fragments of nanoscopic pearl necklaces. In reality, the “pearls” are fullerene molecules that are linked together by means of a special fullerene-binding molecule. ...
Nov 30, 2007 |
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Scientists map imprinted genes in human genome
Scientists at Duke University have created the first map of imprinted genes throughout the human genome, and they say a modern-day Rosetta stone – a form of artificial intelligence called machine learning ...
Nov 30, 2007 |
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New rapid Chlamydia test could enable 'test and treat' strategy
Wellcome Trust-funded researchers have successfully completed the clinical trial for a new rapid test for the sexually transmitted infection Chlamydia. The researchers believe the test, which is able to detect Chlamydia in ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 30, 2007 |
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Dark energy -- 10 years on
Three quarters of our universe is made up of some weird, gravitationally repulsive substance that was only discovered ten years ago – dark energy. This month in Physics World, Eric Linder and Saul Perlmutter, both at the ...
Nov 30, 2007 |
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