What's in our water?
physorg.com — Although America's supply of drinking water is considered among the world's safest, there is an urgent need to develop more stringent regulations to guide how water is monitored for pollutants, according to April Gu, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern ... (Submitted by louiebaur) More…
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twitter.com/DragonAge - EA presents BioWare's new dark fantasy epic Dragon Age: Origins. '9/10' from Game Informer.
Aftershocks from Slow Faults May Arrive Centuries Later
arstechnica.com — Models and data suggest that mid-continent earthquakes may well have been aftershocks from earthquakes that occurred more than 100 years earlier. have a deep and rather personal interest in earthquake and volcano prediction. This comes from spending most of my youth within a few kilometers of an active fault line and less than 100km..... (Submitted by oteque) More…
Marijuana Could Treat PTSD
wellness.blogs.time.com — Many millions have been made in Hollywood by lampooning the acute effects of marijuana on memory but Israeli researchers suggest that they might one day be harnessed to prevent or treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). (Submitted by itc518) More…
New Digital 'Electronics' Concept Could Continue Moore's Law
physorg.com — Computers of the future could be operating not on electrons, but on tiny waves traveling through an electron "fluid," if a new proposal is successful. The new circuit design, recently introduced by Dr. Héctor J. De Los Santos, CTO of NanoMEMS Research, LLC, in Irvine, California, may be a promising candidate to replace CMOS-based circuits, and... (Submitted by legofanboy) More…
APOCALYPSE PICTURES: 10 Failed Doomsday Prophecies
news.nationalgeographic.com — Just as some people today believe a Maya calendar pinpoints 2012 as the end of the world as we know it, people through centuries and across cultures have long forecast our collective doom. (Submitted by chris1234) More…
Baguette Dropped From Bird's Beak Shuts Down The LHC
popsci.com — (NOT the Onion!) With freak accident after freak accident piling up over at CERN, the idea of time traveling particles returning from the future to prevent their own discovery is beginning to seem less and less far fetched. (Submitted by MrBabyMan) More…
Babies' Language Learning Starts From The Womb
sciencedaily.com — From their very first days, newborns' cries already bear the mark of the language their parents speak, reveals a new study. The findings suggest that infants begin picking up elements of what will be their first language in the womb, and certainly long before their first babble or coo. (Submitted by MediaSight) More…
Prostheses do not enhance running speed of amputee sprinters
web.mit.edu — New data released by a team of experts provide further evidence that amputees using running-specific prostheses have no overall biomechanical advantages when running at top speeds compared to able-bodied sprinters. (Submitted by ThePowerDigger) More…
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