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To Speed People Up, Human Leg Muscle Slows DownRaleigh, NC (SPX) Jan 06, 2012 Other than Olympic race walkers, people generally find it more comfortable to run than walk when they start moving at around 2 meters per second - about 4.5 miles per hour. North Carolina State University biomedical engineers Dr. Gregory Sawicki and Dr. Dominic Farris have discovered why: At 2 meters per second, running makes better use of an important calf muscle than walking, and therefore is a much more efficient use of the muscle's - and the body's - energy. Published online this week in ... read more |
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  Wild elephant kills three in Nepal A wild elephant rampaged through a village in southeastern Nepal on Thursday trampling three people to death, police said. ... more | .. |
  16 dead in China as bus slides off bridge At least 16 people were killed after an overloaded bus veered off an icy highway bridge in China's southwestern Guizhou province on Wednesday, state media reported. ... more | .. |
  Solar Power Goes Viral Catching a nasty virus certainly isn't on anyone's holiday wish list, but for solar power it might be just what the doctor ordered. With the help of a genetically modified virus, materials researche ... more | .. |
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  Argentina's last dictator sentenced again Argentina's last dictator Reynaldo Bignone, already serving a life term, was handed a 15-year prison sentence Thursday for rights violations at a clandestine detention center, sources said. ... more | .. |
  New contraceptive rule in China sparks outrage A new regulation that requires women buying emergency contraceptives in at least one Chinese city to register their real names and ID card numbers has triggered an outcry on the Internet. ... more | .. |
 Members of small monkey groups more likely to fight Small monkey groups may win territorial disputes against larger groups because some members of the larger, invading groups avoid aggressive encounters. In a new report published in the Proceed ... more | .. |
  Glacial tap is open but the water will run dry Glaciers are retreating at an unexpectedly fast rate according to research done in Peru's Cordillera Blanca by McGill doctoral student Michel Baraer. They are currently shrinking by about one per ce ... more |
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Ukraine 'shouldn't target' Moscow: Trump
Trump gives Russia 50 days to make Ukraine deal
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  Even limited telemedicine could improve developing health A lack of infrastructure in developing countries, and particularly in rural areas, often ensures that healthcare provision is absent. Research published in the International Journal of Services, Eco ... more | .. |
  Four dead in southern Ivory Coast clashes: officials Four people were killed in inter-ethnic clashes in Sikensi, a town near the Ivory Coast economic capital Abidjan, local authorities said Monday. ... more | .. |
  Doctors look to treat sick children in virtual worlds Doctors in a domed laboratory in Canada are designing a virtual world where they hope to one day treat traumatized children with colorful avatars using toy-like medical gadgets. ... more | .. |
  New system may one day steer microrobots through blood vessels for disease treatment Microscopic-scale medical robots represent a promising new type of therapeutic technology. As envisioned, the microbots, which are less than one millimeter in size, might someday be able to travel t ... more |
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  Russia seizes radioactive material bound for Iran Russia on Friday seized a consignment of the radioactive isotope Sodium-22 used for medical and research purposes at a Moscow airport from a Tehran-bound passenger, the customs service said. ... more | .. |
  A rosy future for Pakistan's cut flower industry Roses are one of the leading cut flowers in the global floriculture trade. In the last few years, cut flower consumption and the market for high-quality flowers has increased in Pakistan as a result ... more | .. |
 Nature's medicine cabinet could yield hundreds of new drugs There are probably at least 500 medically useful chemicals awaiting discovery in plant species whose chemical constituents have not yet been evaluated for their potential to cure or treat disease, a ... more | .. |
  Survey reveals scientists have trouble accessing human embryonic stem cell lines The promise of stem cell research for drug discovery and cell-based therapies depends on the ability of scientists to acquire stem cell lines for their research. A survey of more than 200 human embr ... more |
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Underappreciated threat of nanoplastic pollution revealed in Atlantic Ocean study
Deadly China-Nepal flood caused by glacial lake: experts
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  In Iraq war, a revolution in battlefield medicine The Iraq war ushered in dramatic advances in battlefield medicine, with the effects of homemade bombs leading the US military to radically change how it treats wounded soldiers. ... more | .. |
  One dead as Chinese boat capsizes near Philippines A Chinese-registered vessel has capsized in rough seas off the northern Philippines, leaving one crew member dead, police said Sunday. ... more | .. |
  Father, son die in Israeli air strike on Gaza: medics A Palestinian father and his 12-year-old son were killed and 10 civilians hurt in an Israeli air strike on a civilian house in Gaza on Friday, medics said. ... more | .. |
  Ex-chief of Japan nuclear plant has cancer: operator The former chief of Japan's crippled nuclear plant, who left the job last week, has cancer of the esophagus, his employer said Friday, adding it was unlikely to be linked to radiation exposure. ... more |
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  British soldier killed by Afghanistan IED blast A soldier died in a British hospital Thursday after being fatally wounded by an improvised explosive device in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence announced. ... more | .. |
  'Skin Bones' Helped Large Dinosaurs Survive for a Time Bones contained entirely within the skin of some of the largest dinosaurs on Earth might have stored vital minerals to help the massive creatures survive and bear their young in tough times, accordi ... more | .. | .. |
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