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112,160 articles from PhysOrg

• TUESDAY 12. JANUARY, 2010
• 22:35 Purdue tests nuclear plant design at Bowen Lab

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  (PhysOrg.com) -- Purdue University researchers are working with Westinghouse Electric Co. to ensure that a new design for nuclear power plants will stand up to strong earthquakes.  

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• 22:35 SRNL assesses bamboo crop

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  Many people who grow bamboo in their yards soon regret it, and spend the rest of their days trying to kill it off. The U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL), however, is glad to have a bamboo nursery.  

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• 22:35 Stanford's latest iPhone Apps course now available on iTunes U

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  (PhysOrg.com) -- As the popularity of cell phone apps has increased by leaps and bounds, so has a Stanford course that teaches students and the general public (via the Internet) how to create apps for Apple's iPhone.  

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• 22:35 Study sees little dust risk for subway workers

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  New York subway commuters may worry more about rats and rising fares than dust floating through the system, but for the workers who spend their whole shift below ground, air quality has long been a concern. Results from a new pilot study using miniaturized air samplers to look at steel dust exposure may help them breathe easier.  

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• 22:35 U.S. faces widening information gap on nanotechnology

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  (PhysOrg.com) -- As the global nanotechnology industry continues to produce cutting-edge consumer products, the scientific community is leaving a key part of the U.S. public behind when sharing knowledge of this new field of science, according to a new study by the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Arizona State University.  

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• 21:35 1,000m underground central heating system planned

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  (PhysOrg.com) -- A pioneering scheme to build a giant central heating system that will harness heat from deep underground is being developed by university scientists.  

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• 21:35 Independent public health evaluations could save lives

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  New child survival programs must engage evaluation teams from the start to identify the major causes of child mortality in intervention areas and to ensure that appropriate resources are available to scale up coverage and treatment, according to a retrospective evaluation led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The study -- the first in a series of articles to focus on evidence from large-scale evaluations -will appear in the January 16 issue of the Lancet and is now available online. The new recommendations will help governments and donor agencies invest new funding to avert childhood deaths and reach the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.  

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• 21:35 Melanoma stem cells' evasive talents

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  Melanoma, if not detected in its early stages, transforms into a highly deadly, treatment-resistant cancer. Although the immune system initially responds to melanoma and mounts anti-tumor attacks, these assaults are generally ineffective, allowing more advanced melanomas to win the battle and spread beyond the primary site. Now, researchers at Children's Hospital Boston and Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) shed light on how melanomas stimulate, yet ultimately evade, a patient's immune system. Their work, published online January 12 by the journal Cancer Research, also suggests ways drugs might block these tactics.  

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• 21:35 Mosquito hunters invent better, cheaper, DIY disease weapon

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  Emory University researchers believe they have come up with the cheapest, most efficient way yet to monitor adult mosquitoes and the deadly diseases they carry, from malaria to West Nile Virus. Emory has filed a provisional patent on the Prokopack mosquito aspirator, but the inventors have provided simple instructions for how to make it in the Journal of Medical Entomology.  

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• 21:35 Mystery object to whizz by Earth Wednesday

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  (AP) -- A mystery object from space is about to whizz close by Earth on Wednesday. It won't hit our planet, but scientists are stumped by what exactly it is.  

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• 21:35 Samsung Introduced New MP3 Players With Transparent Touch AMOLED Display

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  Samsung Electronics recently unveiled two MP3 players designed for the media savvy and those concerned with managing their personal well-being.  

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• 21:35 Tilapia feed on Fiji's native fish

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  The poster child for sustainable fish farming -- the tilapia -- is actually a problematic invasive species for the native fish of the islands of Fiji, according to a new study by the Wildlife Conservation Society and other groups.  

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• 21:35 Virtual reality tele-rehab improves hand function: Playing games for real recovery

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  Remotely monitored in-home virtual reality videogames improved hand function and forearm bone health in teens with hemiplegic cerebral palsy, helping them perform activities of daily living such as eating, dressing, cooking, and other tasks for which two hands are needed.  

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• 21:35 Well-covered bum and bug hips 'good for health': study

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  Having extra weight on your behind, big hips and solid thighs "is good for you", British researchers said on Tuesday.  

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• 20:30 Captured by true crime: Why women are drawn to tales of rape, murder and serial killers

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  Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore and Washington DC (January 12, 2010) Women are more drawn to true crime books than are men, according to research in the inaugural issue of Social Psychological and Personality Science (published by SAGE).  

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• 20:30 China shuts down, blocks 15,000 porn websites: state media

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  China shut down or blocked more than 15,000 pornographic websites last year as part of a campaign to crack down on sexual content online, state media reported Tuesday.  

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• 20:30 Monitoring of high-risk medications unchanged despite FDA warnings

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  A new study concludes that many doctors appear to have largely ignored a Food and Drug Administration warning to screen users of new antipsychotic drugs for high blood sugar and cholesterol, which poses risks to their health and raises questions about the efficacy of warning protocols in general.  

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• 20:30 NASA satellite sees rainfall in ebbing Edzani

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  NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite captured a clear picture of what's happening within Tropical Storm Edzani, including where the rainfall is happening and where the center of the storm has been breached. Edzani is fading and will continue to fade over the next couple of days.  

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• 20:30 New compound improves cognitive decline, symptoms of Alzheimer's disease in rodents

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  A fast-acting compound that appears to improve cognitive function impairments in mice similar to those found in patients with progressive Alzheimer's disease has been identified by scientists at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Program in Drug Discovery. Researchers hope to one day replicate the result in humans.  

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• 20:30 New research sheds light on Earth's coldest temperatures

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  (PhysOrg.com) -- Results from the first detailed analysis of the lowest ever temperature recorded on the Earth's surface can explain why it got so cold and how cold it could possibly get.  

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• 20:30 Scientists create super-strong collagen

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  A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has created the strongest form of collagen known to science, a stable alternative to human collagen that could one day be used to treat arthritis and other conditions that result from collagen defects.  

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• 20:30 When work interferes with life: Study reveals new insights about a common stressor

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  As many as 50 per cent of people bring their work home with them regularly, according to new research out of the University of Toronto that describes the stress associated with work-life balance and the factors that predict it.  

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• 20:30 Women with breast cancer may benefit from autologous stem cell transplantation

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  Compared to conventional chemotherapy, autologous stem cell transplantation can extend "event-free survival" for breast cancer patients. Clinical trials provide proof of this for breast cancer with and without distant metastases. However, there are indications that this type of stem cell transplantation can more frequently give rise to severe complications affecting almost all organ systems. This is the conclusion of the final report of the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) published on 16 December 2009.  

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• 19:25 Analyst firm says tech sector to recover in 2010

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  (AP) -- The tech downturn is over and a recovery is on the way after a "dismal" 2009, as companies resume spending on computers and software, according to a new analysis.  

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• 19:25 FDA Web site explains agency operations to public

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  (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration is launching a new Web site explaining its operations to consumers as part of a broader effort to rebrand itself as a more accessible agency.  

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