Proper movements in Muslim prayer ritual can reduce lower back pain
Credit: Mohammad Khasawneh BINGHAMTON, NY- Five times a day, roughly 1.6 billion Muslims worldwide, bow, kneel, and place their foreheads to the ground in the...
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Cancer ‘hot spots’ in Florida may be associated with hazardous waste sites
Credit: Justin Kelley/MU Health COLUMBIA, Mo. (March 6, 2017) -- Studies have shown that hazardous waste sites have the potential to adversely affect human health...
Vesicle formation findings could pave way for liquid biopsies, drug delivery devices
Credit: Carnegie Mellon University Engineers at Carnegie Mellon University and biomedical researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Magee-Womens Research Institute have established a framework..
New materials could turn water into the fuel of the future
Credit: Caltech Researchers at Caltech and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have--in just two years--nearly doubled the number of materials known to have potential...
Bubble-recoil could be used to cool microchips, even in space
Credit: UIC/ALEXANDER YARIN The bubbles that form on a heated surface create a tiny recoil when they leave it, like the kick from a gun...
Study shows how skates, rays and sharks sense electrical fields
Credit: Julius Lab, UCSF Sharks, rays and skates can hunt for prey hidden in the sandy sea floor by "listening" for faint traces of bioelectricity...
Tree growth model assists breeding for more wood
PULLMAN, Wash. - A meeting in a forest between a biologist and a mathematician could lead to thicker, faster growing trees. "Mathematicians like translating biological...
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