Engineers investigating "listener fatigue" -- the discomfort and pain some people experience while using in-ear headphones, hearing aids and other devices that seal the ear canal from external sound--have ...

Technology - Engineering

May 17, 2011 not rated yet 0

Smugglers keep hauling live Asian carp from Southern fish farms bound for food markets in the Lake Ontario city of Toronto, even as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers studies how to keep the fish from swimming into the Great ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 17, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0

Engineers have developed a new type of microchip muscle stimulator implant that will enable people with paraplegia to exercise their paralysed leg muscles.

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Nov 22, 2010 not rated yet 0

New data suggest that the Limon and Pedro Miguel faults in Central Panama have ruptured both independently and in unison over the past 1400 years, indicating a significant seismic risk for Panama City and the Panama Canal, ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Nov 18, 2010 not rated yet 1

The latest weapon in the fight against Asian carp doesn't look much like a weapon at all: It's a 13-mile concrete and steel mesh fence that splits the narrow divide between the Des Plaines River and the Chicago Sanitary and ...

Biology - Ecology

Nov 01, 2010 5 / 5 (1) 0

The University of Miami College of Engineering has received funding from the Corporacion Andina de Fomento to undertake a feasibility study for a new experimental facility located in Panama. The proposed Water Tunnel of the ...

Technology - Engineering

Sep 30, 2010 not rated yet 0

The widening of the Panama Canal currently underway has created a rare opportunity to study the insects that inhabit the plants of environmentally sensitive Central American rain forest habitats. Dr. Amy Berkov, Professor ...

Biology - Ecology

Aug 19, 2010 not rated yet 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists are reporting an advance toward the next big treatment revolution in dentistry — the era in which root canal therapy brings diseased teeth back to life, rather than leaving a ...

Nanotechnology - Bio & Medicine

Jul 12, 2010 4.9 / 5 (9) 0

Scientists are reporting an advance toward the next big treatment revolution in dentistry — the era in which root canal therapy brings diseased teeth back to life, rather than leaving a "non-vital" or dead ...

Nanotechnology - Bio & Medicine

Jun 30, 2010 5 / 5 (5) 0

Just south of Rome lie the Pontine Marshes, a vexed part of the Italian countryside. In ancient times, Roman emperors tried unsuccessfully to drain the marshes, something only achieved in the 1930s through a system of massive ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Apr 07, 2010 4.5 / 5 (4) 2

Dolphins, whales and porpoises have extraordinarily small balance organs, and scientists have long wondered why.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 24, 2010 4 / 5 (1) 1 |

University of Iowa researchers have confirmed that sediments of the Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal (IHSC) in East Chicago, Ind., are contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).

Space & Earth - Environment

Jan 12, 2010 not rated yet 1

(AP) -- Members of Congress are demanding emergency action to prevent Asian carp from invading the Great Lakes and devastating their $7 billion fishery.

Biology - Ecology

Dec 12, 2009 5 / 5 (1) 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A dentist carrying out root canal treatment will need to use a variety of compounds. These do not always bond together properly and sometimes expensive follow-up treatment has to be performed. ...

Chemistry - Materials Science

Nov 03, 2009 5 / 5 (1) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A remotely controlled 'spider pill' with eight moving legs and a miniature camera may become the next tool of choice in diagnosing cancers of the stomach and colon.

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Oct 16, 2009 4.8 / 5 (9) 0