Engineers: Wireless crib monitor keeps tabs on baby's breathing
Radar — the technology that tracks enemy bombers and hurricanes — is now being employed to detect another danger: when babies stop breathing.
Engineering
Dec 2, 2008
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Researchers develop technique to count messages made by single genes
In a study in the advance online edition of Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, researchers from Albert Einstein College of Medicine describe a technique for looking more precisely at a fundamental step of a cell's ...
Dec 2, 2008
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Magnetic nanotags allow sensitive detection of cancer biomarkers
(PhysOrg.com) -- The detection of cancer-associated proteins, or biomarkers, in blood samples is a potentially powerful tool for early diagnosis of cancer and monitoring of cancer treatment. A team led by researchers at Stanford ...
Bio & Medicine
Dec 2, 2008
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Geochemical processes go high-tech in 3-D, interactive project
(PhysOrg.com) -- They occur constantly, are largely invisible but affect everything from energy supplies and soil erosion to water pollution.
Earth Sciences
Dec 2, 2008
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Researchers Suggest New Models for Music Education
(PhysOrg.com) -- Preteens and teenagers today are involved in music in ways that never could have been imagined 50 years ago. Yet America’s secondary school music education programs remain strikingly similar to those of ...
Other
Dec 2, 2008
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NASA Finishes Listening for Phoenix Mars Lander
(PhysOrg.com) -- After nearly a month of daily checks to determine whether Martian NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander would be able to communicate again, the agency has stopped using its Mars orbiters to hail the lander and listen ...
Space Exploration
Dec 2, 2008
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Plastic as a conductor
(PhysOrg.com) -- Plastic that conducts electricity and metal that weighs no more than a feather? It sounds like an upside-down world. Yet researchers have succeeded in making plastics conductive and cutting production costs ...
Engineering
Dec 2, 2008
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Toys made of liquid wood
(PhysOrg.com) -- Most plastics are based on petroleum. A bio-plastic that consists of one hundred percent renewable raw materials helps to conserve this resource. Researchers have now optimized the plastic in such a way that ...
Dec 2, 2008
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High tunnels yield healthier, prettier produce and longer growing seasons
(PhysOrg.com) -- Fred Forsburg's tomatoes are perfect -- tough to do in a certified organic operation where no pesticides, herbicides or fungicides are used. The Livonia farmer's secret: growing tomatoes in high tunnels.
Dec 2, 2008
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Frozen assets: Who gets the embryos when a couple splits?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Divorcing couples have always fought over property, income and custody of children. But technology has added an even more contentious item to the list: the frozen embryos the couple created during happier ...
Other
Dec 2, 2008
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