Children should be routinely tested for high cholesterol.
9 to 11 year old children should be routinely screened for high cholesterol so that action can be taken to avoid the development of heart disease, according to new guidelines from the U.S. National Institutes of Health.
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Urine can be turned into electricity, according to scientists.
We each produce 2.5 liters of urine a day and a total of 6.4 trillion liters globally. But until now it has been widely regarded as a rather unpleasant waste product.
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Sensors in the steering wheel monitor the driver’s vital signs while driving.
Working in collaboration with BMW, researchers from Germany’s Technische Universitaet Muenchen have extended the function of the humble steering wheel with the development of a sensor system integrated into the steering wheel that can give the driver a quick health check while driving.
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Information collected by a car block box intended to help improve federal safety standards, but increasingly it is being used in court cases.
If you are in a serious car accident and are unfortunate enough to land in court afterwards, the the star witness against you may not be an eyewitness or even a human being, it could be your car.
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What can a fetus sense when?
As a fetus grows, it’s constantly getting messages from its mother. It’s not just hearing her heartbeat and whatever music she might play to her belly; it also gets chemical signals through the placenta. A new study, which will be published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that this includes signals about the mother’s mental state. If the mother is depressed, that affects how the baby develops after it’s born…
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Yikes!
Continuing the tradition of making every food product ever taste like bacon, Rogue has released a beer that’s sure to be Homer Simpson approved. Called the Voodoo Doughnut, this ale is bacon maple flavored, and comes in a horrifyingly pink bottle. Getting drunk first thing in the morning never tasted so good!
Nature provides another model for technological advancement.
Ohio State University researchers have discovered that a weed, Salvinia molesta, that clogs up the waterways of many parts of the Americas and Australia actually holds the clues to creating a new type of waterproof coating for materials — all thanks to a very unusual characteristic.
This weed has eggbeater-shaped hairs that trap air and keep the plant floating on the surface of the water — and these odd hairs have inspired a brand new type of coating for things like boats or submarines…
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Denver, Colorado
Under a bill signed by President Barack Obama in September, Denver is a “very strong candidate” for a new satellite patent office. John Bryson, the newly confirmed secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce, announced the news Wednesday during a Colorado visit.
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Researchers have developed a sensor that can detect blood glucose levels in tears.
Scientists have found a way to save diabetics from having to draw blood several times a day to test their sugar levels – test diabetics tears.
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Russian space agency rescuers helping US astronaut Cady Coleman leave the Soyuz TMA-20 capsule shortly after landing.
Men walked on the Moon, but according to a gathering of top female space experts this week, women will be among the pioneering explorers who someday step foot on Mars.
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“There is no future in any job. The future lies in
the person who holds the job.” – George W. Crane
Futurist Thomas Frey: One of my primary complaints with higher education is that they tend to prepare students for jobs of the past. The way a Midwesterner would phrase it, “they are constantly shooting behind the duck.”
Credit unions added more new members during that month than in all of 2010.
Credit unions are benefiting from the backlash against big banks over new fees. And in Texas, credit unions gained $326 million in new deposits from 47,000 new members during the month leading up to the so-called Bank Transfer Day. The Saturday event was orchestrated by an online campaign urging consumers to move their money from banks to the generally smaller credit unions.
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