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Workplace safety program can reduce injuries if aggressively enforced, study finds
A longstanding California occupational safety program requiring all businesses to eliminate workplace hazards can help prevent injuries to workers, but only if it is adequately enforced, according to a new study by the RAND Corporation. The California program is one possible model for federal OSHA's current rule-making effort to develop a safety and health program rule.
Publ.Date : Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST

NASA satellites see cyclone Funso exiting Mozambique Channel
Powerful Cyclone Funso is now beginning to exit the Mozambique Channel, and NASA's Aqua satellite captured a stunning image of the storm that shows the depth and extent of it.
Publ.Date : Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST

Researchers show how viruses evolve, and in some cases, become deadly
Researchers at Michigan State University have demonstrated how a new virus evolves, shedding light on how easy it can be for diseases to gain dangerous mutations. The findings appear in the current issue of the journal Science.
Publ.Date : Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST

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NASA infrared satellite instrument sees tropical storm Iggy growing in strength
(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) The AIRS infrared instrument that flies on NASA's Aqua satellite has been providing forecasters with the cloud top temperatures in the Southern Indian Ocean's ninth tropical cyclone, which has officially been renamed Iggy. AIRS data showed that the area of strong thunderstorms around Iggy's center has expanded in area over the last day.
Publ.Date : Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST

Sharper imaging in glaucoma focus of $1.85 million NIH grant
(University of Houston) A University of Houston vision scientist has received a $1.85 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate whether his techniques are more effective than others in understanding the earliest changes of glaucoma, which could lead to developing a way to earlier diagnose this potentially blinding disease. Jason Porter uses a state-of-the-art instrument that takes sharper, higher-resolution images of the eye than current clinical instruments.
Publ.Date : Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST

Visual nudge improves accuracy of mammogram readings
(Washington University in St. Louis) False negatives and positives plague the reading of mammograms, limiting their usefulness. Cindy Grimm, a computer scientist at Washington University in St. Louis, and colleagues have shown the accuracy of novice readers can be improved by nudging them visually to follow the scanpath of an expert radiologist. The "nudge" is a brief change in the brightness or warmth in the image in the peripheral field of view.
Publ.Date : Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST

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Georgia Bio honors biotech company that enables stroke care
(Georgia Health Sciences University) REACH Health Inc., a six-year-old company that packaged the need for rapid stroke care with the emerging capabilities of the Internet to provide that care remotely, received a 2012 Georgia Bio Community Award Jan. 26 for its significant contributions to Georgia's life sciences industry.
Publ.Date : Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST

Scientists reveal how cholera bacterium gains a foothold in the gut
(University of York) A team of biologists at the University of York has made an important advance in our understanding of the way cholera attacks the body. The discovery could help scientists target treatments for the globally significant intestinal disease which kills more than 100,000 people every year.
Publ.Date : Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST

Bedwetting can be due to undiagnosed constipation, research shows
(Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center) Bedwetting isn't always due to problems with the bladder. Constipation is often the culprit; and if it isn't diagnosed, children and their parents must endure an unnecessarily long, costly and difficult quest to cure nighttime wetting.
Publ.Date : Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST

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ATandT Saw Record iPhone, Android Smartphone Sales in Q4
AT&T executives were effusive during a fourth-quarter earnings call, announcing iPhone sales 77 percent higher than Verizon's and a new industry record for smartphone sales. - AT amp;T activated 7.6 million Apple iPhones during its 2011 fourth quarter and sold 9.4 million smartphones in total. This made it not only AT amp;T's best-ever quarter for Apple and Android smartphone sales, but the best-ever quarter for smartphone sales in the history of the industry, AT amp;T CF...



Publ.Date : Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:07:45 -0500

Microsoft's Windows 8 Tablet Apps Will Leverage Sensors in Big Way
Microsoft's Windows 8 on tablets will utilize hardware sensors in a number of ways, perhaps none more important than apps. - Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 will appear on both traditional PCs and tablets. However, as the company gears up to release the operating system's beta in February, followed by the final version sometime in the second half of 2012, it's increasingly clear that tablet functionality is a prime con...



Publ.Date : Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:06:10 -0500

Twitter Censorship in Some Countries Spurs User Protests
Users express their displeasure with Twitters decision to block content in some countries, such as pro-Nazi content in Germany. - A new rule imposed by Twitter that would see certain comments from particular countries censored is drawing the ire of many Twitter users. Twitter has said it could block a Tweet in a country where what was being said is illegal in accordance with that countrys laws but the rest of the world would ...



Publ.Date : Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:25:55 -0500

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