Firefighters put their lives on the line in some of the most dangerous conditions on Earth. One of their greatest challenges, however, is seeing through thick veils of smoke and walls of flame to find people in need of rescue. A team of Italian researchers has developed a new imaging technique...
It takes a lot to make a memory. New proteins have to be synthesized, neuron structures altered. While some of these memory-building mechanisms are known, many are not. Some recent studies have indicated that a unique group of molecules called microRNAs, known to control production of proteins...
After all the devastating news of the past week regarding children, it's always wonderful to hear about something positive happening. In fact, this news is doubly great: it involves twins! Conjoined twins, actually... More »
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Scientists have discovered a previously unrecognized way that degradation can occur in silicone-urethane plastics that are often considered for use in medical devices. Their study, published in ACS' journal Macromolecules, could have implications for device manufacturers considering use of these...
Landslides kill ten times more people across the world than was previously thought, according to research by Durham University, UK. A new database of hazards shows that 32,300 people died in landslides between 2004 and 2010. Previous estimates ranged from 3,000 to 7,000 fatalities. The database...
Trees, bushes and other greenery growing in the concrete-and-glass canyons of cities can reduce levels of two of the most worrisome air pollutants by eight times more than previously believed, a new study has found. A report on the research appears in the ACS journal Environmental Science &...
What goes bump in the night? In many U.S. households: people. That's according to new Stanford University School of Medicine research, which found that about 3.6 percent of U.S. adults - or upward of 8.4 million - are prone to sleepwalking. The work also showed an association between nocturnal...
The mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) inhibitor everolimus given with the aromatase inhibitor exemestane markedly boosts progression-free survival (PFS) in post-menopausal women with advanced breast cancer compared with hormonal therapy alone, according to updated results of the phase III...
Although police officers are at a high risk of experiencing traumatic events (TE) in their work, they are no more likely than the general population to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). These are the findings from the second phase of an original and groundbreaking study...
available for DVD rental? It's really annoying me because I promised a bunch of my friends we could watch some movies that I could have sworn were available on Netflix about a month or so ago for instant watching, but now they're gone. Pulp Fiction & A Nightmare on Elm Street were taken right...
Human memory has historically defied precise scientific description, its biological functions broadly but imperfectly defined in psychological terms. In a pair of papers published in the November 2 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience, researchers at the University of California, San Diego...
I just updated my iPhone, and I had purchased and downloaded 2 ringtones before the update, does anyone know if my money is just gone, or do I need to re-purchase them?
Researchers from Dr. Woodland's lab at the Trudeau Institute have now identified a previously unknown link between the migration of white blood cells to infected tissues and the ability of these cells to survive and become long-lived memory cells after the infection has been cleared. The new...
Background: This is a Springer Spaniel. We got her when she was about 4 months old and she is now almost 2 years old. She came from an abusive situation where a man and his son beat her, screamed at her, and often didn't feed her. When we got her she was skin and bones, extremely sick, and...
So I have taken my movie and done the whol Disk Utility thing but still cant find a way to import it into iMovie to edit it?
How should I go about doing this?
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How long can you keep tobacco in the bowl, after having lit it, smoked it a bit and let it go off?
Because I occasionaly meet that problem, especially when I take my pipe with me to work or to a gathering, I can't finish the whole bowl. So after I return back home, I would smoke it...