Earth & Environment - Dec 20, 2010 14:57 - 2 Comments
Will turbines turn tides into electricity?
U. WASHINGTON-SEATTLE (US) — Two turbines, each 30 feet wide, are being deployed in Puget Sound to test the feasibility of feeding power from ocean tides into an electrical grid. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Nov 23, 2010 9:57 - 0 Comments
Paramedics an easy target for MRSA
U. WASHINGTON (US) — Firefighters and medics may be at higher risk for carrying methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) than the average person. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Nov 22, 2010 16:50 - 1 Comment
Many autistic children can excel
U. WASHINGTON (US) — Many children with autism spectrum disorders have greater academic abilities than previously thought. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Oct 28, 2010 14:04 - 3 Comments
World’s first vertigo-stopping implant
U. WASHINGTON (US) — A patient at the University of Washington Medical Center become the world’s first recipient of a device that quells the disabling vertigo associated with Meniere’s disease. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Oct 13, 2010 13:02 - 0 Comments
Easy way to track phytoplankton
U. WASHINGTON (US) — It’s now much easier to pinpoint biological hot spots in the world’s oceans where some inhabitants are smaller than, well, a pinpoint. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Oct 11, 2010 11:09 - 0 Comments
Climate change impacts tropics most
U. WASHINGTON (US) — Even though temperature increases have been smaller in the tropics, a new study finds the impact of global warming on life there could be much greater than in colder climates. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Sep 27, 2010 13:23 - 0 Comments
Mice may lead to typhoid treatments
U. WASHINGTON (US) — Better treatment and prevention for typhoid fever may emerge from a model based on transplanting human immune stem cells into mice that are susceptible to infections. (more…)
Science & Technology - Sep 20, 2010 16:38 - 1 Comment
House acts as its own antenna
U. WASHINGTON (US)— Scientists have developed a device that uses a home’s electrical wiring as a giant antenna. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Sep 1, 2010 7:56 - 2 Comments
Why traveling birds need army ants
U. WASHINGTON-SEATTLE (US)—The health of some migratory birds in the United States may depend in part on colonies of army ants that inhabit the foothills near Monteverde, Costa Rica. (more…)
Society & Culture - Aug 12, 2010 11:28 - 6 Comments
Tea Party sites far right of National Review?
U. WASHINGTON-SEATTLE (US)—A new study of official Tea Party movement websites in almost a dozen states suggests the group’s political concerns lie beyond the American mainstream—and the conservative mainstream as well. (more…)
Health & Medicine - May 3, 2010 11:50 - 5 Comments
Women outpace men in mortality gains
U. WASHINGTON (US)—Inequality in adult mortality has grown to the point where adult men in Swaziland—the country with the worst mortality rate—now have a probability of premature death that is nine times the mortality rate of the best country, Cyprus. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Oct 8, 2009 16:42 - 0 Comments
Big job for oceans’ tiny ammonia eaters
U. WASHINGTON (US)—It’s not every day you find clues to the planet’s inner workings in aquarium scum. But that’s what happened when researchers cultured a tiny organism from the bottom of a Seattle Aquarium tank and found it can digest ammonia. (more…)
Science & Technology - Oct 5, 2009 18:00 - 1 Comment
3-D printed glass melds art, science
U. WASHINGTON (US)—A team of engineers and artists has developed a way to create glass objects using a conventional 3-D printer. The technique allows a new type of material to be used in such devices. (more…)
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