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• Robotics Research
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  Gemini-Scout Robot Likely to Reach Trapped Miners Ahead of Rescuers

  August 16, 2011 — Robotics engineers have designed the Gemini-Scout Mine Rescue Robot, which finds dangers and can provide relief to trapped ... > full story
• Electronics
  Optics
  Spintronics
  Inorganic Chemistry
  Chemistry
  Materials Science
   

  New Device Exposes Explosive Vapors

  August 15, 2011 — Researchers have designed an ultra-portable device to detect trace amounts of explosives such as TNT. The prototype is sensitive and inexpensive, and may one day be adapted to help clear dangerous ... > full story
• Influenza
  Bird Flu
  Bird Flu Research
  Cold and Flu
  Virology
  Viruses
   

  Could the Spanish Flu Devastate Us Again?

  August 15, 2011 — Scientists have developed a new computational method that can predict viral mutation strategies, tracking virus strains and giving researchers the tools they need to better combat these mutations ... > full story
• Computer Modeling
  Information Technology
  Hacking
  Encryption
  Diseases and Conditions
  Chronic Illness
   

  Researchers Fight Cholera With Computer Forecasting

  August 11, 2011 — Just as the rainy season is driving a new surge of cholera cases in Haiti, a new computational model could forecast where outbreaks are likely to occur. Researchers hope to target anti-cholera ... > full story
• Tornadoes
  Civil Engineering
  Severe Weather
  Construction
  Hurricanes and Cyclones
  Weather
   

  Increase in Tornado, Hurricane Damage Brings Call for More Stringent Building Standards

  August 8, 2011 — Researchers have examined some of last spring's massive tornado damage and conclude in a new report that more intensive engineering design and more rigorous, localized construction and inspection ... > full story
• Seeds
  Agriculture and Food
  Natural Disasters
  Botany
  Racial Disparity
  Evolutionary Biology
   
  

  Social Networks, Native Seeds Crucial in Restoring Crop Diversity

  August 8, 2011 — Including seeds of local crop varieties in relief-seed packages distributed to smallscale farmers after natural calamities could help indigenous crop diversity rebound faster. Additionally, existing ... > full story
• Today's Healthcare
  Public Health
  Wounds and Healing
  Personalized Medicine
  Accident and Trauma
  Diseases and Conditions
   

  Love Parade 2010: Patient Care During a Tragedy

  August 1, 2011 — More than 6000 attendees of the Love Parade 2010 in Duisburg required medical care. The mass panic in a narrow stretch of tunnel led to 21 dead and more than 400 injured, some seriously. The ... > full story
• Public Health
  Social Issues
  Educational Policy
  Disaster Plan
  Natural Disasters
  Computer Programming
   

  Social Media Poised to Drive Disaster Preparedness and Response

  July 27, 2011 — Social media tools like Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare may be an important key to improving the public health system's ability to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters, according to a ... > full story
• Liver Disease
  Health Policy
  Public Health
  Viruses
  Today's Healthcare
  Diseases and Conditions
   

  Operations Research Models of Hepatitis B Prove Decisive in Treating Millions in US, China

  July 26, 2011 — With hepatitis B infecting as many as 10 percent of people of Asian descent, operations researchers collaborated with a liver transplant surgeon to develop mathematical models that verified the cost ... > full story
• Fish
  Fisheries
  Sustainability
  Wild Animals
  Zoology
  Ecology Research
   

  Coho Salmon at Risk in U.S. Urbanizing Watersheds

  July 26, 2011 — For a decade researchers in Seattle have worked to solve the mystery of why adult coho salmon are dying prematurely in urban streams when they return from the ocean to mate and spawn. The researchers ... > full story

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