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Hazards on the road ahead
07-25-2007 · EurekAlert!Learner drivers are being invited to test how good -- or bad -- they are at spotting potential hazards on the road, with the help of University of Nottingham researchers.
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- Major population centers may be at risk; building codes must reflect new seismic data
02-07-2007 · EurekAlert!
Earthquakes in stable continental regions lack sufficient understanding to prepare local populations for future seismic activity, according to a paper published in the February issue of the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. Scientists provide a new hazard assessment for Peninsular India to highlight the urgent need to update design standards there in order to construct adequate and safe industrial facilities, dams and community buildings.
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- Length of time to rid homes of lead hazards unacceptable, researchers say
02-05-2007 · EurekAlert!
The length of time it can take to rid homes of lead hazards is "unacceptable" according to researchers from Wake Forest University School of Medicine and colleagues in this month's American Journal of Public Health.
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- MIT's 'electronic nose' could detect hazards
10-30-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
A tiny "electronic nose, " engineered by MIT researchers using a novel inkjet printing method that prints thin sensor films onto a microchip, could be used to detect hazards including carbon monoxide, harmful industrial solvents and explosives.
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- Road to college filled with distinctive barriers for Mexican-Americans
02-08-2007 · EurekAlert!
Mexican-American high-schoolers and their white peers aspire equally to go on to college to chase their dreams, but the minority students see many more hurdles in their paths, say researchers at the University of Oregon.
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- Passengers, not just mobile phones, contribute to road accidents
05-22-2007 · EurekAlert!
New research by Australian scientists, soon to be published in the international Accident Analysis and Prevention journal, has shown that drivers carrying two or more passengers are twice as likely to crash as unaccompanied drivers.
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- On the road to a new cancer therapy -- starving the tumor
11-01-2007 · EurekAlert!
VIB scientists connected to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, in collaboration with the Flemish biotech company ThromboGenics, have been studying the anticancer action of anti-PLGF. This substance appears not only successful in treatment of tumors for which the current therapies fail, but also contributes to the greater effectiveness of existing chemotherapy, without side effects. Thus, anti-PLGF might possibly form the basis for new treatment for cancer.
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- A crystal ball of earthquakes
02-15-2007 · EurekAlert!
When the next big earthquake hits a region like San Francisco, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council grantee Kristy Tiampo wants to ensure that communities will not only be able to evacuate, but also rebuild. This is why Tiampo, the NSERC and Benfield/ICLR Industrial Research Chair in Earthquake Hazard Assessment, is involved in an international effort to improve earthquake forecasting.
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- Soft-cell approach cuts animal tests
02-06-2007 · EurekAlert!
A new way to test the safety of the air we breathe is proving faster, cheaper and more humane than exposing laboratory animals to airborne chemical hazards, say UNSW scientists. Researchers at the university's Chemical Safety and Applied Toxicology Laboratories have developed an animal-free alternative that exposes living human cells to air pollutants inside a small chamber. The breakthrough could fast-track scientific understanding of the threat to human health posed by thousands of airborne chemical compounds.
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- MIT's 'electronic nose' could detect hazards
11-09-2007 · EurekAlert!
A tiny "electronic nose" that MIT researchers have engineered with a novel inkjet printing method could be used to detect hazards including carbon monoxide, harmful industrial solvents and explosives.
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- Planetary scientist says: Focus on Europa
02-11-2007 · EurekAlert!
Yogi Berra supposedly suggested that when you come to a fork in the road, you are supposed to take it.That's just what planetary scientists studying the rich data set from the Galileo Mission to the outer solar system are doing now. They're taking the fork.William B. McKinnon, Ph.D., professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, says the community suffers from an embarrassment of riches
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