News tagged with surreal experience

New sensor system tracks firefighters where GPS fails

Firefighter Ray Hodgson hits the talk button on his walkie-talkie: "I have fire showing, possibility of a rescue on the third floor. Engine 35, initiate a rescue group. Also back him up with a hose line."

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Targeting teen depression

(PhysOrg.com) -- Psychologist Mona Taouk is developing a world-first questionnaire to identify young people at risk of depression and suicide.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0




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Decades later, a Cold War secret is revealed

For more than a decade they toiled in the strange, boxy-looking building on the hill above the municipal airport, the building with no windows (except in the cafeteria), the building filled with secrets.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 25, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 11

The next STEP in science education

By many accounts, the picture of science education in the United States is bleak: American students lag their international peers in standardized test scores, fewer of them are studying science and engineering at the university ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Aug 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Testing technicolor physics

(PhysOrg.com) -- As the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) ramps up the rate and impact of its collisions, physicists hope to witness the emergence of the Higgs boson, an anticipated, but as-yet-unseen, fundamental ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 06, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

Why do we laugh when someone falls over?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Why is it funny when people fall over? What are jokes for? A session for teenagers at Cambridge University today will come up with some answers.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 16, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 4

Experiment volunteers 'walk on Mars' (Images)

Two volunteers cut off from the rest world for eight months stepped out on a mock-up of Mars on Monday, reaching the dramatic half-way point of their experimental "voyage" to the Red Planet.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 14, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 2

Student builds solar motorcycle, launches club to push more electric vehicle breakthroughs

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Purdue University student who created a solar-powered motorcycle is launching a club to help likeminded students expand environmentally friendly transportation options.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Oct 01, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Reading Kafka, watching Lynch improves learning, study suggests

Reading a book by Franz Kafka -- or watching a film by director David Lynch -- could make you smarter.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (10) | comments 2

Longest Solar Eclipse of the 21st Century

One one-thousand, 2 one-thousand, 3 one-thousand, 4 one-thousand... Continue counting and don't stop until you reach 399 one-thousand.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Spooky Hurricane Science

There's a special room at the Marshall Space Flight Center. Researchers call it the "Anechoic Chamber" and they love to test their high-tech instruments there. Normal people think it's just plain spooky. "In ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 15, 2008 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (13) | comments 0

Molecular medicine comes to the rescue

On Monday, August 14, Lilly Jaffe, a six-year-old North Shore suburban girl who had been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when she was one month old, checked into the Clinical Research Center at the University of Chicago Medical ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Sep 13, 2006 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0


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