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Popular stomach acid reducer triples risk of developing pneumonia

A popular stomach-acid reducer used to prevent stress ulcers in critically ill patients needing breathing machine support increases the risk of those patients contracting pneumonia threefold, according to researchers at Wake ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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Diagnostic labs analyze from bugs to toenails

Found an odd bug in your closet? Rhododendrons inexplicably wilting? Need a toenail analyzed? There's a lab for that.

Biology / Other

created May 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Rapid coral death by a deadly chain reaction

(Phys.org) -- Most people are fascinated by the colorful and exotic coral reefs, which form habitats with probably the largest biodiversity. But human civilisation is the top danger to these fragile ecosystems ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

The gene that boosts sugar beet yields

A European team of researchers has discovered a gene with the potential to increase sugar beet yields. Presented in the journal Current Biology, the findings of the study show how the long-sought bolting gene B ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

From waste to water: Study examines solution to red mud problem

Scientists at the University of Glasgow are working to turn a toxic industrial waste product into a material which can be used to treat contaminated water.

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Blossom end rot plummets in transgenic tomato

The brown tissue that signals blossom end rot in tomatoes is a major problem for large producers and home gardeners, but a Purdue University researcher has unknowingly had the answer to significantly lowering ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 21, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Finding an alternative to feeding fish fish

Scientists at the University are developing a new plant-based product that could replace fishmeal, reducing the need for farmers to feed fish to other fish at a time when more than 90% of EU waters are at ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Opportunity rover rolling again after fifth Mars winter

(Phys.org) -- With its daily supply of solar energy increasing, NASA's durable Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has driven off the sunward-tilted outcrop, called Greeley Haven, where it worked during its ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 09, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Breeder works to reduce aluminum toxicity in rice

(Phys.org) -- As rice farmers around the world begin to turn from wet paddies to dry fields in an attempt to conserve water and mitigate climate change, they are facing a new foe: aluminum.

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Novel battery system could reduce buildings' electric bills

The CUNY Energy Institute, which has been developing innovative low-cost batteries that are safe, non-toxic, and reliable with fast discharge rates and high energy densities, announced that it has built an operating prototype ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

Paydirt at 8-year-old Mars Rover's 'new landing site'

A report in the May 4 edition of the journal Science details discoveries Opportunity made in its first four months at the rim of Endeavour Crater, including key findings reported at a geophysics conference in late 2011.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 04, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 6 | with audio podcast


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