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Students invent device for the perfect bicep curl

To achieve buff biceps, proper form for strength-training exercises is key, and people often turn to professional trainers to correct them and prevent injury. Cornell student engineers have developed an alternative: ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Japan 'was unprepared' for nuclear disaster: official probe

The operators of the tsunami-stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant and government regulators were woefully unprepared for disaster, the first official probe into the March 11 catastrophe said Monday.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Dec 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 7

Quack medicines, insect immigrants, and what eats what among secrets revealed by DNA barcodes

The newfound scientific power to quickly "fingerprint" species via DNA is being deployed to unmask quack herbal medicines, reveal types of ancient Arctic life frozen in permafrost, expose what eats what in ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Indian newlyweds offered cash to delay having children

While countries like Japan, Canada and Australia hand out "baby bonuses" to encourage people to have children, couples in one part of India are getting cash to do just the opposite.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

People like us: why some middle class families opt for the local comp

(PhysOrg.com) -- A book co-authored by a UWE academic delves into the assumptions and motivations of liberal parents in making decisions about secondary schools.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Apr 11, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Asia's nuclear drive on despite Japan crisis

Asian governments that are ramping up nuclear power will face huge pressure to curb their programmes in the wake of Japan's atomic crisis, but dozens of reactors will still be built in the near future.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 15, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Brain basis for crime?

Adrian Raine, a Penn Integrates Knowledge professor in the Departments of Criminology, Psychiatry and Psychology, presented a collection of his work on neurocriminology that broadly attempts to connect criminal, psychopathic ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 28, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 6

Chest pain? New system helps to determine whether to head to ER

(PhysOrg.com) -- Currently, when heart patients phone a health-care professional complaining of chest pains, they are advised to call 911 for transportation to the local emergency room in case they’re having a heart ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 15, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Risk review suggests that carbon nanotubes be treated, for now, 'as if' hazardous

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a new paper published by the Society for Risk Analysis, a UC Berkeley researcher argues for caution when dealing with carbon nanotubes. Because environmental and health information on carbon nanotubes ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 18, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Breast cancer: Reducing the risk of unnecessary chemo

Published in Nature Communications, NRC researchers have developed a tool to determine which breast cancer patients have little risk of their disease recurring. The tool -- an algorithm that identifies "gene expression signat ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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