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  Physiologists Create Undergarment To Measure Vital Signs Of Firefighters

  Industrial hygienists designed a flexible undergarment to take accurate readings of vital signs such as heart rate, breathing rate, and body temperature. They monitor these indicators to protect ... > more
• Staying Healthy
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  Food Scientists Bubble Up Idea For A New Snack

  Food scientists pump carbon dioxide gas into yogurt, which results in the creation of a new snack, carbonated yogurt. The main difference injected into the yogurt is texture, as the carbonation ... > more
• Wild Animals
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  Marine Biologists Work To Protect Seahorses By Developing A Breeding Program

  Marine biologists, worried that regular harvesting of wild seahorses may threaten the creature with extinction, have begun breeding them in home aquariums. Caring for seahorses requires a three-step ... > more
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  Engineers Use Mine Roof Simulator To Increase Mine Safety

  Industrial hygienists, applying geology and engineering, can test mine support systems with the only mine roof simulator of its kind. Using up to 3 million pounds of vertical force and 1.6 million ... > more
• Back and Neck Pain
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  Ergonomists Design More Customizable Office Chair

  Ergonomists created a chair that allows users to adjust the lumbar supports asymmetrically, addressing what they found in research. Over 70 percent of those tested wanted asymmetrical support in the ... > more
• Intelligence
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  Cognitive Scientists Use fMRI To Watch Brains While Eyes Search

  Cognitive scientists ran an experiment to understand how the brain searches for an object with a known shape. They asked subjects to track the movement of dots, and used fMRI to see which parts of ... > more
• Solar System
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  Astronomy Students Find 1,300 New Asteroids

  Astronomy students looking for supernovae examined photographs and found asteroids. They used both unaided eyes and computer analysis to identify the asteroids. The images were composited from three ... > more
• Software
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  Electrical Engineers Create Voice-controlled Mouse

  Computer scientists worked with electrical engineers to move the cursor on a computer screen with the userýs voice instead of a mouse. Software interprets vocal commands to move the cursor, ... > more
• Global Warming
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  Meteorologists Find That Increased Ocean Temperatures Cause Increasingly Intense Hurricanes

  Climate change experts studying hurricanes documented a 35-year warming trend in ocean surface temperature and linked it to larger hurricanes. The increase has been 1 degree Fahrenheit, resulting in ... > more
• Thermodynamics
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  Physiologists Design Advanced Suit To Cool Firefighters

  Safety scientists used principles of physiology to help keep firefighters cool in the high temperature environments they often encounter. Traditional firefighting gear considers the heat of the fire, ... > more

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