Cases of ventilator-associated pneumonia — the most lethal and among the most common of all…
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Toward an optical atomic clock: Physicists develop atomic frequency standard for one of world’s most precise clocks
Polish physicists have been aiming to build an optical atomic clock, an extremely precise device…
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Swedish discovery could lead to new stroke therapy
The opportunities to treat a stroke have long been limited to the hours after an…
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Pollution triggers genetic resistance mechanism in a coastal fish
For 30 years, two General Electric facilities released about 1.3 million pounds of polychlorinated biphenyls…
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Facebook adds civil unions to profiles (AFP)
AFP – Facebook began letting its more than 600 million members indicate whether they are…
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Apple’s Steve Jobs at tech CEO meeting with Obama (Reuters)
Reuters – Apple Inc.chief executive Steve Jobs, on medical leave from the company he co-founded,…
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House Republicans seek to block FCC Internet rules (AP)
AP – House Republicans on Thursday moved to block the Federal Communications Commission from enforcing…
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Better way to diagnose pneumonia
Researchers have created a new sampling device that could prevent thousands of people worldwide from…
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New model for probing antidepressant actions
How antidepressants called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) work can be thoroughly explored with a…
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Frequent, severe fires turn Alaskan forests into a carbon production line
Alaskan forests used to be important players in Mother Nature’s game plan for regulating carbon…