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If You Are Heart Healthy In Middle Age, You Are Likely To Have 14 Extra Years

If You Are Heart Healthy In Middle Age, You Are Likely To Have 14 Extra Years

Nov 06 2012 | comment(s)

People with heart health in middle age may live up to 14 years longer, free of cardiovascular disease, compared to peers who have two or more cardiovascular disease risk factors, according to a new paper.

For the analysis, researchers pulled data from five different cohorts included in the Cardiovascular Lifetime Risk Pooling Project and looked at the participants' risk of all forms of fatal and nonfatal cardiovascular disease from ages 45, 55 and 65 through 95 years of age.

Zombie Carbon In The Soil Rises Again

Zombie Carbon In The Soil Rises Again

Nov 06 2012 | comment(s)

Erosion can bury carbon in the soil, acting as a carbon sin but a new study has found that part of that sink is only temporary.

The researchers estimated that roughly half of the carbon buried in soil by erosion will be re-released into the atmosphere within about 500 years. Their model estimates that climate change could speed the rate of decomposition, aiding the release of the buried carbon.
Intracranial Probe Is A Pressure Switch Inside The Head

Intracranial Probe Is A Pressure Switch Inside The Head

Nov 06 2012 | comment(s)

It's election day in America, which means by midnight up to 47 percent of the USA will have tremendous cerebral pressure and a conviction the country is ruined.

It's unknown why cerebral pressure in certain people suddenly increases but the consequences are better understood: The blood circulation is disrupted and after a while parts of the brain may die off, similar to what occurs in a stroke.  And dementia.
Plasmonic Nanolasers - A Laser The Size Of A Virus Particle

Plasmonic Nanolasers - A Laser The Size Of A Virus Particle

Nov 06 2012 | comment(s)

New single laser devices that are the size of a virus particle can also operate at room temperature. These plasmonic nanolasers could be readily integrated into silicon-based photonic devices, all-optical circuits and nanoscale biosensors. 

We're going to need ultra-fast data processing and ultra-dense information storage by the time Halo 8 comes to a holodeck near you, so reducing the size of photonic and electronic elements is critical.
How Rocket Fuel Can Lead To Better Automobile Efficiency

How Rocket Fuel Can Lead To Better Automobile Efficiency

Nov 06 2012 | comment(s)

Hydrogen is the smallest molecule in the Universe, which makes keeping it in one place difficult. To tap its tremendous potential as a fuel, spacecraft must be able to store liquid hydrogen at extremely low temperatures and then feed it smoothly to rocket engines.  

When ESA was developing its hydrogen-fueled Ariane rockets, they got Austria’s MagnaSteyr to build tightly sealed fuel lines and double-walled storage tanks capable of trapping and holding liquid hydrogen and oxygen. Now MagnaSteyr has adapted the technology developed for Ariane to build clean-burning cars that can use hydrogen instead of gasoline for fuel. 
Found: The Climate Change Trigger For Earth's Last Big Freeze

Found: The Climate Change Trigger For Earth's Last Big Freeze

Nov 05 2012 | comment(s)

Did the flood waters from melting of the Laurentide Ice Sheet in the last major cold episode on Earth about 12,900 years ago flow northwest into the Arctic firs, or east via the Gulf of St. Lawrence to weaken ocean thermohaline circulation and have a frigid effect on global climate?

It's a debate that has gone on for decades but new, high-resolution global ocean circulation models claim to have an answer/  The researchers report that the flood must have flowed north into the Arctic first down the Mackenzie River valley. They also say that if it had flowed east into the St. Lawrence River valley, Earth's climate would have remained relatively unchanged.